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4th grade critical thinking resources for SMART Notebook
Reading Strategies and Independent Reading Response Unit, SB & PDF
A best selling unit!
This unit is designed to set up your independent reading program, and to specifically teach each reading strategy through a series of 15 lessons.
This download includes the Smartboard file (50+) and all pdf handouts (70+ pages)
The unit is divided into 2 parts, the first 6 lessons are dedicated to setting up an effective independent reading program.
The second part of the unit is dedicated to teaching reading strategies through a variety of mini lessons, read-a-louds
Grades:
4th - 6th
NO PREP Main Idea Reading Response Unit, Smartboard and PDF
Just print and start teaching! This is a NO PREP resource! Students will learn to determine the main idea of a variety of high interest texts. Test their reading comprehension of a variety of non-fiction texts with a series of reading responses. Your students will be engaged and ready to rock their standardized test!
* A great unit to prep for standardized testing!*
What's Included:
Smartboard File (65 + pages)
Main Idea Unit PDF handouts (50+ pages).
All unit instructions and Assessme
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Grades:
4th - 6th
NO PREP! Inferencing Author's Message Unit, Diversity, Smartboard & PDF
UPDATED: *Clarity has been fixed on this unit!* I also added name/date headers to handouts and links to each handout on SB lesson page for easy access*
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ABOUT THE UNIT:
Teach and challenge your students to use inferencing skills! This is a reading for meaning unit where students learn the basics of inferencing and are challenged to infer the author’s message of a variety of high interest texts. The commo
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Visual Word Puzzles -- 10 Fun verbal brainteasers for Smartboard
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.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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Multiple Intelligence (MI) SMARTboard (Primary/Elementary) by Jennifer A. Gates
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
Grades:
K - 5th, Staff
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Bats: Informational Text and Fact Or Opinion Sort-Smartboard 11.4-Windows OS
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
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Text Features Unit, No Prep Technology Infused Learning, Smartboard & PDF
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Are you looking to try out some new instructional strategies to engage your junior learners? Try incorporating some technology! From beginners to tech savvy teachers, this unit has something for everyone! You do not need a class set of tech… you can use classroom computers, laptops, ipads and even phones! You can even plan a BYOD day! (Bring Your Own Device) OR no tech at all…you
Grades:
4th - 6th
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6 Word Life Memoir SMARTboard Lesson (Editable!)
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
Grades:
2nd - 12th
SmartBoard Morning meeting - calendar, counting days, weather tally, skip count
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
Grades:
K - 4th
Christopher Columbus and October 12th
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.
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
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Habits of Mind
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
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Addition and Subtraction Strategies
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
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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Critical Thinking: Crossword - NOTEBOOK Gr. 3-8
**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,
Grades:
3rd - 7th
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Odd vs. Even Higher Thinking
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.
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Grades:
1st - 4th
Ohio Industries in the 1800s using Smart Board
This set on Ohio Industries highlights Cincinnati, Cleveland, Akron, Zanesville plus the gristmill in Clifton. I have done a Smart Board "Keyword Match" using this vocabulary: manufacturing, land, labor, factors of production, and entrepreneurship. One page highlights Obed Hussey and the reaper. One looks at glassworks in Zanesville. One focuses on Cincinnati including meatpacking industry and Procter and Gamble. Akron looks at the impact of Benjamin Goodrich and the tire industry. Cl
Grades:
4th
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Character Change
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
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Discovery and Inquiry Learning Strategy SmartBoard Lesson
Want to train your students for hands-on, discovery learning? This is an incredibly fun, engaging way to introduce students to the four basic steps in inquiry learning. It uses Greg Tang's Grapes of Math patterns and poems to train students to think of a viable strategy, commit it to paper, share it with others, then reflect on their strategies and the strategies of others to revise their thinking. It is a great way to introduce and use the eight Common Core math practices needed for all effec
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Grades:
4th - 9th
Triangle/Angle Smartboard Game
This game is designed for formative assessment after studying or just after introducing acute/obtuse/equilateral/right triangles and rays/acute angles/obtuse angles. This activity is fun, engaging and focuses on items students find tricky. This flip card game is a great way to get students thinking and working actively on an far too often rote activity.
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Grades:
4th
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Thinking time (loads of cognitive reasoning slides)
I created 'Thinking Time' last year and now all the classes in my school are using it. There are over 100 slides. This is a brilliant tool to have in the class room. It can be used as an exciting early morning work, a time filler on any given day or as a way of really getting the kids into a thinking state of mind. There are slides appropriate to all ages and different cihldren will get different things from the activities. I use this every single day that I'm teaching and the children LOVE
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Logic Problems Smartboard
This Smartboard presentation is all about logic. The kids love this presentation because it makes them think, is challenging, and fun! Here is an example of a logic problem included in the presentation:
Question: Why are 2009 dollar bills worth more than 2008 dollar bills?
Answer: It's a dollar more.
This is a great way to get students' brains "warmed up" for math!
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Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 6th
Critical Thinking: Memory Match Game - NOTEBOOK Gr. 3-8
**THIS is a MAC Version**
View this video by copying this link and pasting it into a web browser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWZaBoPDnjU
In this Memory Match Game mini, 6 matching pairs of critical thinking and their definitions are hidden in the puzzle. This mini is great for comprehending the 6 topics covered in your Critical Thinking lesson plan.
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You need no extra software; upon download, this game will open.
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Comprehension Retell Questions --- Smartboard
Use these questions to walk students through a retell of a fictional text. Helps students learn what story events are important and gives a good flow of the order of the story. Can work well with most fictional texts.
Students can then be transitioned to do this as an oral discussion only, then independently.
Grades:
1st - 5th
Analogies
This Notebook file contains a minilesson about analogies, interactive whole class practice, partner practice and an exit ticket for assessment.
Grades:
4th - 5th
Socratic Discussion - How do you feel about soda? and The Case Against Soda
Socratic Discussion 1 - Students work in small socratic discussion groups with assigned jobs and discuss an issue that applies to them. How do you feel about soda?
Follow-up with Socratic Discussion 2 - The Case Against Soda
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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