3rd grade critical thinking classroom community resources for SMART Notebook

Family Culture Project: Slides and Lessons

Created by

The Family Culture Project offers an engaging exploration of students' ancestral roots, inviting them to delve into the rich tapestry of their family histories and original countries. Through interactive activities and research, elementary and middle school participants embark on a journey of discovery, celebrating cultural diversity and fostering a deeper understanding of their heritage. With hands-on projects and presentations, students not only learn about their own backgrounds but also gain

Subjects:

Classroom Community, Reading, Social Studies - History

Grades:

1st - 5th

Types:

Projects, Activities, Assessment

Also included in: Family Culture Project: Slides and Resources

Visual Word Puzzles -- 10 Fun verbal brainteasers for Smartboard

Created by

La Maestra Mariposa

Are you m1llion (one in a million)? Do you have timing ti ming (split second timing)? Then you will love these puzzles. Try these ten verbal brain teasers with your class, and they will definitely ask for more! The hidden answer is revealed by moving the blue circle around the page.

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, For All Subject Areas, Problem Solving

Grades:

3rd - 12th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard

Smartboard Color Word Mix Up - 3 Levels

Created by

Leigh Majer

*Updated October 2019 for a fresh new look with the same great activities:) * 3 differentiated and interactive levels with self checking pull tabs *new fonts*updated clip art Looking for students to learn their color words on the Smart Board? This activity can be used Whole Group, Small Group or individually and is a GREAT addition to your literacy stations. My kids LOVE building these words! Differentiation is key to meeting our students' varied needs and this activity will allow for your child

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Spelling, Vocabulary

Grades:

PreK - 3rd

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard

CCSS:

RF.K.3c

, RF.1.3

, RF.2.3

, RF.2.3e

Multiple Intelligence (MI) SMARTboard (Primary/Elementary) by Jennifer A. Gates

Created by

Education Evangelist

Teaching gifted, talent development or preparing students for Common Core by teaching them to identify their strengths? This is the perfect way to introduce Multiple Intelligence: 8 characteristics that students can use to best identify ways in which they can make positive growth. They are: nature smart, logic smart, self smart, people smart, word smart, picture smart, body smart, and music smart. Introduce and explore Multiple Intelligence in depth with students the elementary or primary and

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

K - 5th, Staff

Types:

GATE, Interactive Whiteboard

Bats: Informational Text and Fact Or Opinion Sort-Smartboard 11.4-Windows OS

Created by

Smart Lesson Plans 2 Go

IMAGINE the look of wonder on your students’ faces as they read and apply fact/opinion skills while exploring the AMAZING world of bats! This complete unit includes: -Fact/Opinion Introduction and Lessons -KWL Fact Chart -Opinion Graph -Fact/Opinion Sign (signaling) -Factual Informational Text Booklet -Craftivity Bat (to hold booklet) -Real-Life Micro- and Mega- Bat Pictures -Fact/Opinion Sort-Apply Skills -Craftivity Bat Cave for Fact/Opinion Sort -Bat Anatomy-Label Body Parts -Recommended Rea

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Critical Thinking, Informational Text

Grades:

2nd - 5th

Types:

Unit Plans, Interactive Whiteboard, Printables

Back to School Ice Breaker Get to Know You Would You Rather First Week Game

Created by

Tricks and Treats for Teaching

Teachers ~ This is a REALLY FUN game created in SMARTBoard. Your students will LOVE playing this! "Would-You-Rather" FUN Game ~ Ice-Breaker ~ Get-to-Know-You ~ Back-to- School for Beginning of School Year. EASY 'Click a dot to return to game board' feature. 24 FUN Would you Rather questions in all! Trust me, you'll use this year after year ~ Students LOVE it!WARNING: You MUST have SMART Technologies SMART software, and a SMARTBOARD to teach from, to effectively download, open and use this Intera

Subjects:

Back to School, Classroom Community, For All Subjects

Grades:

3rd - 7th, Staff

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Games

Also included in: Back to School ICEBREAKER Games Activities BUNDLE Get to Know You First Week

Morning Meeting/Calendar Slides

Created by

The Kindergarten Kids -- Ally DuMez

These slides are a great way to engage your students during calendar, whether in person or online! This file is through smart notebook. If you do not have smart notebook/do not plan on getting smart notebook, do not purchase. Within the slides you will see: 1. Good Morning slide - date, student shoutout, morning workout, question of the day2. Calendar rules (virtual and in person)3. Monthly Calendar Spread 4. Days of the week/weather5. How many days of school 6. Agenda for the dayI added in blan

Subjects:

Classroom Community, For All Subjects, Life Skills

Grades:

PreK - 5th

Types:

Activities

6 Word Life Memoir SMARTboard Lesson (Editable!)

Created by

Life Long Teacher

This activity encourages critical thinking and higher order questioning by having students write their own 6-word memoir. The lesson is a SMARTboard file, so you can edit it to fit your needs! Started by Ernest Hemingway and popularized in the book "Not Quite What I Was Planning," students will write a story about their lives. The only catch - they can only use 6 words! In my classroom, I had my students draw an illustration to accompany their six word memoir. We bound the memoirs in a boo

Subjects:

Character Education, Creative Writing, Critical Thinking

Grades:

2nd - 12th

Types:

Projects, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

SmartBoard Morning meeting - calendar, counting days, weather tally, skip count

Created by

Joanne McFarland

This 16 page SmartBoard file is for you to use to start your day! The first page is a "Good Morning" page that you can edit to give your students instructions for the day, let them know what is to be turned in, or just a reminder to put their backpacks away and sit at their desks. The second page is the calendar page. You can drag numbers, names of the days and months, and icons for the day, the date, the month, and the weather. The next two days are to count the days of school. The first o

Subjects:

Classroom Management, Critical Thinking, For All Subjects

Grades:

K - 4th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Whiteboard

CCSS:

...

Patterns in Skip Counting Full Lesson (Day 2 Smartboard)

Created by

Teach2Empower

This is the second lesson in which students use a hundred chart to analyze patterns in skip counting. This file includes a voice thread in which I explain how I teach the lesson. It also includes Spiral Review, Problem Solving, Mini Lesson, Guided Practice, Independent Practice, and Closure. Analyze Patterns in Skip Counting Day 2 by Lindsay Stark is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Numbers, Writing

Grades:

K - 3rd

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Interactive Daily Calendar using Smart Ink

Created by

Elissa McClain

This interactive daily calendar can be used all year! This set has a variety of ways for your students to practice daily math and have daily conversations! You can rearrange or delete slides to match your classroom needs.Set includes:*Daily attendance (where you can put in your student's pictures next to their names)*Pledge of Allegiance*Daily calendar*Themed monthly calendars (August-June)*Themed morning message (by month)*Themed monthly tally chart to keep track of how many days you've been i

Subjects:

Classroom Community, Holidays/Seasonal, Other (Math)

Grades:

PreK - 5th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Whiteboard

Christopher Columbus and October 12th

Created by

Aprender es divertido

This presentation is not only about Columbus, but also about how many Spanish speaking countries are there in the world, and other essential questions surrounding October 12th. It motivates the students to figure out the answer to these questions by involving critical thinking, and the use of cultural comparisons. It also has engaging activities that will have students wanting to know more! It includes links to videos and teacher's notes. In Spanish, with more extensive explanations in English.

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, European History, Spanish

Grades:

3rd - 7th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard

Second Step Lesson 1 Being Respectful Learners

Created by

Jerusha Willenborg

This is lesson 1 in a series that teaches students different skills on how to be in control of their behavior and emotions in order to create a safe and respectful learning environment.

Subjects:

Classroom Community, Classroom Management, Life Skills

Grades:

3rd

Types:

Interactive Notebooks

Back to School Forms (EDITABLE)

Created by

MissErikaSmith

This purchase comes with a variety of resources for your back to school needs. Includes: Editable Class Schedules Editable Student Computer Cards with pictures PG Movie permission form in both English and Spanish Editable Weekly Folder letters and parent signature inserts Editable Textbook Inventory Sheet Editable Reading Log.

Subjects:

Back to School, Classroom Community, Classroom Management

Grades:

K - 6th

Types:

Handouts, Classroom Forms, For Parents

Habits of Mind

Created by

Steve Reifman

This SMART Notebook file was designed to be used with classroom Smartboards. The file contains 9 slides that introduce the "Habits of Mind" I use in my classroom to help children become better thinkers and better people. These habits include Judgment, Thoughtfulness, Craftsmanship, Openness, Connections, Viewpoint, Relevance, Evidence, and Bias. Each slide includes a specific Habit of Mind, a simple definition of the word, a sentence demonstrating the meaning of the word, a short list of related

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, For All Subjects

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard

Addition and Subtraction Strategies

Created by

Stacey Nobles

This smartboard covers the different strategies we teach for addition and subtraction. It gives several examples for each strategy using a gradual release - teacher models and then students do. Addition Strategies covered: Counting up on a hundreds chart Breaking one number apart Expanded Form Addition Counting up on a number line. Subtraction Strategies covered: Counting up/down on a number line. Breaking one number apart Expanded Form Subtraction Counting up on a number line Counting down on a

Subjects:

Basic Operations, Critical Thinking, Place Value

Grades:

2nd - 5th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard

Critical Thinking: Crossword - NOTEBOOK Gr. 3-8

Created by

CCP Interactive

**THIS is a SMART Notebook Version** View this video by copying this link and pasting it into a web browser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7VZogaRzSI In this crossword mini, 18 vocabulary words are provided with across and down clues. This mini is great for vocabulary and comprehending all the words centered around the vocabulary in the Critical Thinking lesson plan. Vocabulary Words include: anticipate, attributes, brainstorm, conclusion, consequences, critical, evaluate, facts, independent,

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, English Language Arts, Vocabulary

Grades:

3rd - 7th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Games

Morning Meeting Resources and Ideas

Created by

Lessor's Lessons

Morning meetings generally last fifteen to thirty minutes and offer an opportunity for children to practice social-emotional and academic skills. The structure usually has four components: greetings, sharing, group activity (games) and a morning message. Each component is included in this 45 page resource along with a section of "cheers" and "closings" that can be used throughout the day. Components are grouped and labeled for easy retrieval!

Subjects:

Classroom Community, Classroom Management, Oral Communication

Grades:

K - 8th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard

Patterns in Skip Counting: Student Created Book (Day 3 Smartboard)

Created by

Teach2Empower

This is the third lesson in which students use hundred charts to analyze patterns in skip counting. They then create a Skip Counting Book using their hundred charts. This file includes a voice thread in which I explain how I teach the lesson. It also includes Spiral Review, Problem Solving, Mini Lesson, Guided Practice, Independent Practice, and Closure. Skip Counting Book by Lindsay Stark is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Numbers, Writing

Grades:

K - 3rd

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Etiquette Lessons

Created by

Go Fourth With Mrs Palmer

I created this presentation (45 slides) for "Etiquette Week" in my primary classroom. This presentation contains 5 days worth of minilessons on etiquette. This would be a great Back to School tool or can be used at any point during the year.Lesson 1: Eye contact and handshake.Lesson 2: Dining etiquetteLesson 3: Bathroom etiquetteLesson 4: General respectLesson 5: Polite words

Subjects:

Back to School, Classroom Community, Life Skills

Grades:

PreK - 3rd

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard

Classifying Words Under The Big Top SMARTBOARD

Created by

Elizabeth Leigh Creations

This interactive SMARTBOARD lesson allows students to determine what category words will be a part of by looking at their characteristics, their similarities, and their differences. Students will decide which part of the group does not belong or what an appropriate category heading would be. All slides are self-checking so it can easily move from a teacher directed mini-lesson to additional practice in a center or independent station. Great way for students to use their critical thinking skil

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, English Language Arts, Reading Strategies

Grades:

1st - 3rd

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson, Centers

Odd vs. Even Higher Thinking

Created by

BeachyTeach

After students understand the concept of odd and even, use this SmartBoard Notebook to help students think about these numbers in a different way. There are odd and even mazes, guess my number, and a math journal entry. The "can you guess my number" game has the student paper in the attachments tab.

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Math, Numbers

Grades:

1st - 4th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Whiteboard

Character Change

Created by

Adrienne DeMarco

This lesson takes your students, step-by-step through how the character changes. Students look back in the text and search for the BEST evidence to support how the character was feeling in the beginning, turning point, and how they changed at the end. -Bell Ringer: Character Traits -Objectives as I Can statements -Modeling -Collaborative Discussion -Independent Work -Pocket chart organizer -Closure: Did we...statements -Exit Ticket

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Literature, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard

CCSS:

RL.3.3

, RL.3.5

, RL.3.6

, RL.4.1

, RL.4.3