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8th grade test preparation science resources for SMART Notebook
ELA and Reading Vocabulary Review Bingo (6th grade CCSS/Georgia Milestones)
This review game combines the fun and ease of Bingo with challenging questions over language arts and reading vocabulary terms. Each question comes with an answer that you can reveal to your students with just one click. I've also given you a slide of teacher notes to guide you. Plus, the format of the Smart Notebook allows you to edit as you see fit. Use for state test review (such as the Georgia Milestones), unit test review, or as an alternate assessment!
Vocabulary Included:
*theme
*to
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5th - 8th
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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
A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley Jeopardy Review Game
This is a Jeopardy review game for the drama version of A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley. This drama is featured in the new Prentice Hall Literature books (Common Core Edition) for 7th Graders. It is formatted using Smart Notebook and is made to be used with the Smartboard. All of the categories are pre-linked to each question slide, and each question slide is linked back to the questions, making it easy and quick to navigate in class. There is also a red bar that can be taken again and a
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6th - 10th
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AWESOME MONSTEROPOLY SMART BOARD REVIEW GAME TEMPLATE
Are your students tired of playing BORING review games to prepare for assessments? Undoubtedly, your answer must be YES! Well, here's A SMART Board review game template that your students are sure to beg you to let them play. The MONSTEROPOLY SMART BOARD REVIEW GAME TEMPLATE allows your class to review as many questions as you want while playing a MONOPOLY-like game that includes crazy stunts and monster money. The main board slide on the SMART Board presentation has moving animated monsters
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2nd - 12th, Staff
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Hallowe'en Science Experiments/Activities
Four exciting, hands-on and engaging Hallowe'en Science experiments you can do with your class using simple and easy to find supplies. In the older grades you can even explain the Science behind the chemical and state reactions! This file also links to two videos on YouTube demonstrating the experiment.
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PreK - 8th
ZONK Monsters Review Game (SmartBoard)
Zonk is a FUN review game that can be used for all grades and all subjects! One of the best things about ZONK is that it is a game based not only knowledge, but luck as well! This keeps the students interested and those who may not know the answers are still engaged and have an opportunity to score points!
You can break the students up into groups or have them play as individuals. If playing with groups, establish your rules from the start. I typically tell the students that the person who
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K - 12th
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Reading Battleship Test Prep Review Game (6th grade CCSS/Georgia Milestones)
Tired of the same old Jeopardy? Spice up your (Review) game with this fun and engaging Battleship review! You can use this for your state test review, unit test review, or as an alternative assessment. Students pair up in teams, then answer questions to compete for the most captured ships. The Smart Notebook format makes it easy to edit as you see fit. Teacher Directions for use are included in this product.
Topics covered:
*connotation
*mood
*alliteration
*rhyme scheme
*foreshadowing
*su
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6th - 8th
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Space Unit - Instructional Smartboard Lesson - VA SOLs 4.7 & 4.8
Updated November 2015!! This SMARTboard lesson is a 24 page instructional unit lesson that covers all of the Virginia fourth grade SOLs for Space. This lessons focuses on:
1 - -Changes in Our Understanding of the Universe/Solar System - Geocentric vs. Heliocentric (Earth Centered vs. Sun Centered) - Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus, & Galileo & our modern understanding of the Universe
2 - Our Solar System - Our Sun, Planets, Moons, Inner & Outer (Terrestrial/Gas Giants) Planets
3 -
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4th - 10th
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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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Electricity SMARTboard Unit Lesson - VA SOL 4.3
This 20 page Instructional Unit SMARTboard Lesson teaches kids all about Electricity. It follows the Virginia 4th grade SOL requirements for Electricity (VA SOL 4.3), but would be appropriate for grades 3-8. This lesson is FUN - with TONS of web links and interactive parts. My students LOVE this SMARTboard! It takes about 1-2 weeks to complete, and I use it in conjunction with my Electricity Interactive Notebook, also featured here on TPT. If you're teaching 4th grade science in Virginia, t
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3rd - 9th
SmartNotebook Hangman Game
Fun and easy classroom activity for any age student to use the SmartBoard and participate in the game.
Easy as 1) download, 2) open and 3) play.
This SmartNotebook file includes 2 pages "hangman boards" - 1 with female student and 1 with a male student.
Check out our other SmartNotebook Games & Templates:
SmartBoard Checkers Game
Connect 4 Gameboard
Crossword Gameboard Template
Magic Words Teacher Template
Free Sudoku Math Template
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Grades:
1st - 12th
Smart STEM Tallest Christmas Tree
Tis the season for holiday STEM! Here is a SmartBoard activity that I made for a 2nd grade class. This Smart has directions, materials, charts and timers for the activity. Students are to build the tallest Christmas tree that they can in 15 minutes. At the beginning, I have the jobs broken down. For my class, I will not assign specific jobs, but for some classes it could be needed. For older grades, have the students graph their data they collected.
Grades:
1st - 8th
Force & Motion SMARTboard Unit - VA SOLs
This ten page instructional SMARTboard covers all of the 4th grade VA Science SOLs on the topic of Force and Motion - VA SOL 4.2. It is colorful, well organized, and contains lots of interactive parts including tons of video links. Use this lesson to teach your entire unit!
Topics covered include:
position & location
motion, speed, direction
energy, potential energy, kinetic energy
force, push, pull
friction
inertia
and more!
I also offer an interactive notebook for this unit that c
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3rd - 10th
Heads Up for the Smart Board! Customizable Template for any subject or grade!
Have you ever played the fun new game Heads Up? Now you can bring it into your classroom! This game template allows you to customize up to 72 terms that you want your students to master! This template includes a scoreboard, instructions, and is SUPER EASY to customize. This is a sure way to bring enthusiasm and engagement into your classroom!
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Reading Battleship Test Prep Review Game (8th grade CCSS/Georgia Milestones)
Battleship specifically designed for 8th grade standards. The questions are written at a higher DOK level to strengthen analysis skills. You can use this for your state test review, unit test review, accelerate 7th graders, or as an alternative assessment. Students pair up in teams, then answer questions to compete for the most captured ships. The Smart Notebook format makes it easy to edit as you see fit. Teacher Directions for use are included in this product.
Topics covered:
*connotation
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7th - 8th
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Mendelian Genetics Unit: Lesson 7: Your Monster and Punnet Squares
Now that students know how to set up Punnet squares and predict future genotypes and phenotypes, have them do the same with their monsters!
Students will pick a partner in class, and their two monsters will fall in love and have many monster babies! Students will select traits, and will create 10 punnets squares that will show the possible outcomes for four different babies.
Finally, students will put together a packet with their adult monsters (illustrated with their genotypes and phenotypes
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Jeopardy Game Template for SMART Notebook
Do you want to create your own Jeopardy games, but don't have the time? Now with this neatly designed, bright and colorful template you can create Jeopardy style games for your classroom in a snap! Just add your own categories, questions, answers, and save it! Create as many different jeopardy games as you like.
The scoreboard arrows keep score by the hundreds for up to 4 teams. This Smart Notebook file contains 54 pages: 25 question pages, 25 answer pages, a game board, a scoreboard, and ins
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Wave Interactions - Refraction, Reflection, Diffraction & Interference
A Beginning SMART Notebook Lesson on Wave Interactions with matter including the definitions and differences between reflection, refraction, diffraction and interference. Compares how these differ in mechanical and electromagnetic waves. Includes images, linked video clips, animation and a review science song from YouTube. Must have Smart Notebook software to run.
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5th - 9th
A WHOLE Year of Science Bell Ringers
This Smart Notebook File contains an entire year of bell ringers (fully editable) with a key. Topics included are: Scientific Inquiry, Lab Tools and Safety, Cells, Rocks and Minerals, Distance and Time, Energy, Matter plus extra bell ringers focusing on Scientific Inquiry. The bell ringers are specifically aligned with sixth grade standards, but could easily be adapted for 5-8. If you don't have access to Smart Notebook, I also have a PDF file.
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5th - 8th
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Living Systems SMARTboard Lesson - Animals/Ecosystems VA SOL 4.5
This lesson is a 13 page instructional SMARTboard lesson about Living Systems. It contains tons of video clips and internet links as well as interactive parts for the SMARTboard. It covers all of the 4th grade Virginia SOLs for the Living Systems Unit (VA SOL 4.5) Topics include:
1 - Defining: Ecosystems, Populations, Communities, Habitats
2 - How Organisms interact with their habitats
3 - How Organisms ADAPT - including Structural Adaptations & Behavioral Adaptations
4 - Producers, Con
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3rd - 8th
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Mink Dissection
This is the presentation I created to help my students through each major step of a mink dissection.
While the presentation came in handy, I also modeled each step for them, but tried not to show them TOO much as I went-- there's something great in the discovery being theirs.
As they started opening each mink, I would call them back, show more pictures on the board, or model through mine a bit more, quizzing as I went.
(The first day is the toughest as students have to find the trachea and e
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6th - 9th
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The Giver Jeopardy Review Game for Smartboard
This is a Jeopardy review game for Lois Lowry's novel The Giver. The game is formatted using Smart Notebook and is made to be used with the Smartboard. All of the categories are pre-linked to each question slide, and each question slide is linked back to the questions, making it easy and quick to navigate in class. There is also a red bar that can be taken again and again to cross out the category selected.
This game includes one round of regular jeopardy, one round of double jeopardy, and a
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6th - 10th
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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
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