7th grade critical thinking ancient history resources for SMART Notebook

Natural, Capital, vs. Human Resources using the 3 Little Pigs

Created by

In a unit studying ancient Mesopotamia, the concept of natural vs. capital vs. human resources proved difficult for my students to differentiate. Using the tale of "The Three Little Pigs" student calls upon their previous knowledge to help fill in a chart based on the story. To conclude the lesson, there is a sorting SMART Board activity on the last slide.

Subjects:

Ancient History, Social Studies - History, World History

Grades:

5th - 7th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard

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

SMART Notebook Japanese Origami Bird

Created by

Millar's Math Market

Visual steps to creating an origami bird. The pages of the SMART Notebook are linked so you can go step by step with your students to create an origami bird. The fold lines and folded pieces are clearly shown so that your and your students can make sure they are doing the right things. I used this when teaching 6th grade social studies, as well as in math when teaching geometric shapes.

Subjects:

Ancient History, Asian Studies, Geometry

Grades:

5th - 7th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Whiteboard, Cultural 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

Chinese Lanterns

Created by

Amber Wimberly

A fun art activity to accompany any unit on China. In this Smart Board presentation, the students learn about Chinese lanterns and the lantern festival during the Chinese New Year celebration. Then, the students create their own lanterns. I use Ellen McHenry's lesson: http://ellenjmchenry.com/chinese-paper-lantern-project/ for the template. Presentation shows step by step pictures to help them assemble

Subjects:

Ancient History, Asian Studies, Social Studies - History

Grades:

3rd - 7th

Types:

Activities

Internet Hoaxes, Viral Emails, Viral Videos

Created by

Hubertw

This notebook file contains examples of true and hoax viral emails and viral videos as well as resources and guidelines for evaluating them. It is designed to give students the tools to evaluate them.

Subjects:

Computer Science - Technology, Critical Thinking

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Religion in the Middle Ages Smartboard Presentation

Created by

Danis Marandis

Contains a smartboard presentation covering Religion during the Middle Ages. Also includes a guided note sheet for students to following along with presentation. Topics covered include: --the Catholic Church, its functions, and its hierarchy --the knight's code of chivalry --Christianity and Jesus of Nazareth --powers of the Catholic Church (sacraments, excommunication, etc.) --the spread of Islam and the Arab Empire --the life of Muhammad --the teachings of Islam --religious conflict between C

Subjects:

Ancient History, Social Studies - History, World History

Grades:

7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Interactive Whiteboard

Riddles and Brainteasers

Created by

Easy Peasy Chemistry

This is a collection of 54 riddles/brain-teasing exercises that are great for weekly warm-up activities or as a brain break activity when students are overwhelmed. Also great to use as sub plans for an unexpected absence. Each of the questions has an answer as well as an explanation of the answer when necessary.

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Problem Solving

Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Activities

Ancient Athens Pillars of Democracy

Created by

FauphTalk

This SMART Notebook lesson is designed to help students understand part of the structure of Ancient Athenian government. It includes information on the pillars of Athenian Democracy, including The Assembly, the Council of 500, and the Courts. Lesson also includes review activities at the end! There is also a worksheet / review sheet in my store that can be used in conjunction with this lesson, or as a textbook activity! Enjoy!

Subjects:

Ancient History, Government, World History

Grades:

6th - 9th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

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

Ancient Greece - The Game of Polis

Created by

Michelle Labelle Fisch

Play the game of Polis and learn how conflict created opportunities for honor and glory among the ancient Greeks. Create a competition among five teams! This Notebook file uses animation to reveal key questions, Magic Pen for explanation during discussion, and a random generator to set groups. The game rules are provided and examples. Students can play in teams or individually and record their individual score for the team. Much loved by students - great for tournaments and rainy days!

Subjects:

Ancient History, History

Grades:

6th - 9th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard

Sparta vs Athens Jeopardy

Created by

Kim Blend

Sparta, Athens, Ancient Greek government SmartBoard Interactive Jeopardy game. This is a 48 slide SmartBoard Interactive Jeopardy game that reviews Athens, Sparta, and the Ancient Greece government. This game allows the teacher to keep score for up to six teams and includes double jeopardy and final jeopardy.

Subjects:

Ancient History, History, Study Skills

Grades:

6th - 8th

Types:

Study Guides, Interactive Whiteboard, Games

Greek Vases

Created by

Amber Wimberly

Students create their own black figure "vases" using 4" terra cotta pots (sold at home depot for 67 cents each) and sharpies. In this SMART presentation: * a you-tube video clip teaching about Greek Vases and Art * several photos of Greek art to analyze and discuss * student samples * a paper template to print out (practice) *Greek geometric examples

Subjects:

Ancient History, Art History

Grades:

3rd - 7th

Types:

Activities

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

Ancient Greece Review Game on the SmartBoard

Created by

Cristina Knapp

This is a really fun review game for Ancient Greece. It is set up like a game board where each person gets a gamepiece and they spin the spinner to land on a specific square. The squares all have built in links that bring them to the questions for Ancient Greece. It's a great center activity and review for a test! Everything is completely editable and could even be used for other subject areas.

Subjects:

Ancient History, For All Subject Areas, Social Studies - History

Grades:

5th - 9th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Whiteboard, Games

Ancient Egypt Polity and Economy Smartboard Presentation

Created by

Danis Marandis

Contains a smartboard presentation covering ancient Egyptian polity and economy. Also includes a guided note sheet for students to following along with presentation. Topics covered include: --ancient Egyptian government --ancient Egyptian pharaohs --ancient Egyptian bureaucracy --ancient Egyptian military --ancient Egyptian trade By purchasing this file, you agree not to make it publicly available (on websites, etc.) or to share with any other teachers. It is intended for classroom use only.

Subjects:

Ancient History, Social Studies - History, World History

Grades:

7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Interactive Whiteboard

Unit 1 World History - Jeopardy Game (Places) SmartBoard Game

Created by

Angel Lowe

SmartBoard Jeopardy game that covers beginning 6th grade world history. Includes questions about map skills, geography, basic religions, and important skill-building facts. Support activity to review for test from the Unit 1 PowerPoint.

Subjects:

Ancient History, Geography, Social Studies - History

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Whiteboard, Games

Social Studies Egypt and Nubia Jeopardy

Created by

It's Miss Miller Time

This is an interactive SmartBoard review activity for a Social Studies unit on Egypt and Nubia. It is in the format of Jeopardy and has leveled multiple choice questions along with open ended questions. Includes correct answers in slides.

Subjects:

Ancient History, Social Studies - History, Test Preparation

Grades:

5th - 7th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Whiteboard, Games

CCSS:

Discovery and Inquiry Learning Strategy SmartBoard Lesson

Created by

Connecting the Common Core

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

Subjects:

Algebra, Applied Math, Critical Thinking

Grades:

4th - 9th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

CCSS:

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Thinking time (loads of cognitive reasoning slides)

Created by

adam dean

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

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Problem Solving

Grades:

PreK - 12th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Whiteboard

Time Dating AD and BC Win, Lose, or Draw

Created by

Edon

This SMARTBook presentation looks to clarify the difference between AD and BC for students. There are two slides dedicated to putting dates in order. The final five slides lists several dates. Students must use these dates and write down the corresponding date to a question generated by the teacher. When this activity was implemented in my class, we made a class bracket. The teacher can come up with questions such as "which is the closest date to 2013." This is left up to the teacher based

Subjects:

Ancient History, Social Studies - History, World History

Grades:

5th - 7th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard

Prehistory and Mesopotamia Jeopardy

Created by

Marty McKenzie

Review Prehistory and Mesopotamia on the Smart Board with this Jeopardy Game. I have blank pages for you to insert your own Daily Doubles or use it without DD! There is a page to keep score as well! The preview only shows questions through 300 points, but the board goes to 500! Game can be edited to add your own questions or team names! Be sure to X out the point value of the questions chosen to avoid choosing the same question more than once. Works GREAT with buzzers.

Subjects:

Ancient History, World History

Grades:

7th - 9th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Whiteboard, Games

Multiple Intelligence (MI) SMARTboard (Secondary/Adult) 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:

5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff

Types:

GATE, Interactive Whiteboard

Ancient Greece in a Nutshell

Created by

Cindy Massey

This product is a smartboard lesson that covers the highlights of ancient Greece. Topics covered in this lesson include: democracy, olympics, gods and goddesses, the Trojan War and comparison/contrast between Sparta and Athens. I use this lesson with textbook "The World" by Scott Foresman

Subjects:

Ancient History, World History

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard

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