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6th grade earth sciences resources for SMART Notebook
Virginia's Natural Resources SMARTboard Unit Lesson - VA SOL 4.8
Updated September 2015 - New links added!
This is an 18 page instructional unit SMARTboard about Virginia's Natural Resources. It covers all of the Science VA SOL's for this topic for fourth grade. (VA SOL 4.8) It contains tons of interactive elements, video clips, & games.
Topics include: Natural Resources, Human Resources, Capital Resources, Water Resources - groundwater, reservoirs, oceans, bays, rivers, & lakes, watersheds, Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Atlantic Ocean, Animal Res
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3rd - 8th
Weather SMARTboard Instructional Lesson - 26 Pages-Clips & Interactive
This SMARTboard lesson is a 26 page instructional lesson for my 4th grade Virginia Science SOL Weather Unit. It covers all of the Virginia 4th grade Science SOLs for Weather. It contains tons of video clips & interactive activities! (Twenty web links in all!) Topics included are: The Water Cycle, Types of Clouds (Cumulus, Cirrus, Stratus, & Cumulonimbus), Types of Precipitation (Rain, Snow, Sleet, Freezing Rain, & Hail),
Weather Instruments (Thermometers & Temperature, Anemo
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3rd - 8th
Plants Interactive SMARTboard Lesson - VA 4th Grade Science SOL Unit
This is a unit SMARTboard lesson covering Plants. It has interactive features, animations, and video clips. This lesson covers all of the VA SOLs for 4th grade about plants. Topics include: Plant parts & functions (roots, stems, leaves, flowers), Flower parts (Petals, Sepal, Pistil - Style, Stigma, Ovary, Stamen - Anther, Filament, Pollen, Pollination, Spore Reproduction, Photosynthesis, Plant Adaptations, Plant Dormancy.
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3rd - 8th
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STEM: Science SMARTBOARD*All About Ecosystems* Interactive
*FILE IS DESIGNED TO GO ALONG WITH THE ECOSYSTEM UNIT PLANS, BUT CAN BE USED SEPERATELY AS WELL*
This SmartBoard file is an awesome teaching tool for kids and teachers! It is very informative. It includes:
an ecosytem circular graphic organizer
graphic organizer for living and nonliving things
graphic organizer for consumers, producers, and decomposers
info on herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores
carnivore and herbivore vertex game
info about prey and predators (with picture representation)
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3rd - 6th
Natural Disasters SMART Board Thematic Unit
This is an interactive SMART Board unit with lessons based upon thirteen different types of natural disasters. They are alphabetically sorted from brush fires to tornadoes and tsunamis. It includes creative writing prompts, videos, fact sheets, and how they each relate to and impact humans. It also includes information and lessons for the process of a cumulating event of a Natural Disaster Science Fair in which pairs of students can base their own individuals science experiments on one of the na
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4th - 11th
Fifth Grade Georgia Milestones Test Prep: Earth Science Informational Texts
I created this SMART file lesson as part of my plan for preparing my students for this year's Georgia Milestones Test. All texts, organizers, etc. are attached to the SMART file slides. The SMART mini-unit includes a poem about erosion with poem analysis sheet, links to online text structures and text features lesson with two assessments, four INFORMATIONAL TEXT handouts on Earth Science topics such as coastal erosion and glaciers, a CLOSE READING activity and more. It takes 7-8 days to complete
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4th - 6th
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Weather SMARTboard - VA 6th Grade SOLs - Middle School
This 31 page instructional SMARTboard lesson covers all of the Virginia 6th grade Science SOLs for Weather (SOLs 6.3). This lesson is interactive, engaging, and full of web links & video clips. Topics in this lesson include:
*What is Weather?
*Heat Transfer - Radiation, Conduction, Convection
*Air & Water Circulation/Currents on our planet
*Coriolis Effect
*Climate vs. Weather
*Air Masses
*High & Low Pressure Systems
*Cloud Formation
*Types of Clouds - Cumulus, Cumulonimbus, Cirrus
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4th - 8th
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Wind and Water Currents and their effect on Weather Patterns-Interactive Lesson
Students will:
1. understand that wind is the result of unequal heating of Earth’s surface as air moves from areas of high to low pressure,
2. understand how winds and the Coriolis effect influence global circulation patterns and climate,
3. explore surface and deep water currents,
4. identify some of the major water currents of the world,
5. understand how water currents affect weather.
Each page invites your learner to interactive with the subject to engage the information. Lessons use audio
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6th - 8th
Rocks and Minerals SMARTboard 45 Slides
This Rocks and Minerals SMARTboard file has what you need to present to your students in science class. It includes:a) Three Main Types of Rocksb) Sedimentary Rocksc) Igneous Rocksd) Metamorphic Rockse) The Rock Cyclef) What is a rockg) What is a mineralh) Weathering and Erosioni) Ways We Use Rocksj) Ways we Identify Rocksk) Examples of Rocksl) Intrusive and Extrusive Rocksm) The Two Ways of Miningn) Minerals are important to uso) Metal Oresp) Important Minerals to usq) Wordsearchr) crosswords)
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Rocks and Minerals Bundle - Science Education
The Water Cycle-Interactive Lesson
Students will:
1. describe how water cycles between each of Earth’s spheres,
2. recognize that the water cycle is driven by energy from the Sun,
3. understand that phase changes (e.g., the change from a liquid to a gas) occur at different points within the water cycle when heat energy is gained or lost,
4. understand how the water cycle purifies water, and distributes water and essential minerals to Earth’s ecosystems.
Each page invites your learner to interactive with the subject to engage th
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6th - 8th
Astronomy Cycles Jeopardy
Astronomy Cycles Jeopardy is a FULLY EDITABLE Jeopardy review game for fifth through eighth grade students. It includes review for rotation, revolution, day and night, the seasons, phases of the moon, eclipses and tides. This is a great review to use before a content test, or before achievement assessments. The content aligns with national earth science standards.
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5th - 8th
Human Impact on Earth's Ecosystems-Interactive Lesson
Students will:
1. explore how human activities have altered ecosystems, sometimes causing the extinction of living things,
2. explore how changes to the environment have different impacts on different living things.
Each page invites your learner to interactive with the subject to engage the information. Lessons use audio, animation, virtual manipulatives and other engaging experiences. Our Lessons are compete with a lesson plan and a companion quiz so you can quickly prepare and evaluate you
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6th - 8th
Classifying Rocks and Soil - Smartboard Lesson
This 54 slide smartboard lesson introduces the three main types of rocks including sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic, as well as lava and magma. Soil types include sand, silt, clay, humus, and loam. Students will learn the differences and be able to classify each according to their properties. Discussion and review questions follow.
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2nd - 6th
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Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources Lesson
This is a super cute interactive Smartboard that goes along with your science resources unit. Can be broken up into 3-4 different lessons with 3 different interactive review activties.
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K - 6th
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Fossils: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dig
This smart lesson walks students through the scientific process for digging for fossils (aka chocolate chips.) The idea is to relate this lab to the real world experience and demonstrate to students that digging for fossils is not as easy as they might have expected.
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4th - 8th
Rocks & Minerals Unit: Lesson 4: Mineral Identification Investigation!
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Today, we take the level of rigor higher! To review mineral property vocab, students do a quick crossword puzzle, and then read a rap/poem about a girl who'd asked for diamonds but got something questionable. Then, after checking their borax/Epsom salt crystals for the last time, we break out the mineral kits and go to work.
Using the properties they learned about and tested the day or two before, students will identify all of the minerals in their kit cooperatively. When finished, st
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6th - 9th
Earths Place in Space Yr 5 Primary Connections Full Term of work
You will need to BUY THE OUTLINE- "Earths Place in Space: YEAR 5, EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCES" from Primary Connections: primaryconnections.org.au. The video and information links are all working as of this upload, but this can change due to variables in the future. By downloading, you understand that all links are not infallible and may need replacing as time goes by. PLEASE let me know if this is the case, and I'll do my best to fix it. I have added a written assessment (With answers) which is ab
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5th - 6th
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Weather Review Game
This is a Jeopardy style review game that covers all Virginia 4th Grade Weather SOLs. This is a great way to review with your 4th or 5th graders for the Science SOL! It includes pictures, diagrams, Jeopardy Music, and great questions! Topics are covered in my Weather SMARTboard lesson, also offered on Teachers Pay Teachers!
Have Fun!
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3rd - 9th
Air mass SMARTboard supplemental activity
When the textbook was not enough, I created this SMARTboard mini-lesson to supplement 6th grade science readings about air masses. The activities review the earth's temperature zones and explain how air masses differ based on where they form.
Students can interact with labeling the maps, color their own climate maps (provided), and review information through an optional linked Brainpop video (subscription based).
Students could use this activity for individual review, or as a whole class a
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5th - 8th
Plate Tectonics Jeopardy
Plate Tectonics Jeopardy is a Jeopardy review game for sixth through eighth grade students. It includes review for earth's interior, plate tectonics, continental drift, volcanoes and earthquakes. This is a great review to use before a content test, or before achievement assessments. The content aligns with national earth science standards.
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6th - 8th
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Gravity-Interactive Lesson
Students will:
1. understand that all objects exert a gravitational pull on each other,
2. understand that the mass of an object and its proximity to another object will increase the strength of gravitational pull,
3. understand the role gravity plays on Earth,
4. understand that other planets have different gravities,
5. understand that without air resistance, objects of different masses will fall to Earth at the same speed,
6. understand that all objects have a center of gravity,
7. be introdu
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6th - 8th
Climate-Interactive Lesson
Students will:
1. differentiate between weather and climate,
2. identify the five major types of climate in the world,
3. understand how elevation, latitude, ocean currents, wind and topography help to determine a region’s climate.
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6th - 8th
Trees and Forests Review Game Jeopardy Style Elementary
This Jeopardy-style review game is an excellent way to engage students in Science concepts related to Trees and Forests.
The questions and concepts in this game follow the Alberta Program of Studies, but can be used for other Science curriculum that relates to: photosynthesis, tree growth, the food chain, characteristics of trees and leaves, and environmental awareness.
This SMART Notebook game is interactive and completely ready for your classroom, just download and play!
Created by ar
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2nd - 7th
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Earthquake Explorers: Year 6 (Primary Connections Science unit) WHOLE TERM DONE!
You will need to BUY THE OUTLINE- "Earthquake Explorers: YEAR 6, EARTH & SPACE SCIENCES" from Primary Connections: primaryconnections.org.au. The video and information links are all working as of this upload, but this can change due to variables in the future. By downloading, you understand that all links are not infallible and may need replacing as time goes by. You will need to follow preparation instructions for each lesson as outlined in the unit after purchasing and/ or downloading from
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5th - 6th
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