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Middle school 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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Internet Hoaxes, Viral Emails, Viral Videos
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.
Grades:
5th - 8th
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
Social Justice S.L.A.M. Reading Response Unit, Smartboard & PDF
A BEST seller!
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Recently updated to include BOTH SMARTboard presentation and PDF unit handouts.
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About the Unit:
As teachers we have many jobs! One is to teach and prepare our students, and the other is to inspire! Too often the second is put aside, as we get our students ready for standardized testing. I design
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Grades:
5th - 6th
INTERACTIVE Mind Map w/Doodle Notes Geometry Basics: Segment & Angle Bisection
INTERACTIVE Mind Map with Doodle Notes HS Geometry Foundations: Segment and Angle Bisection / Partition.
Use a visual that helps establish quality work-habits and consistency in mathematical communications.
Lay down the foundations for writing geometry proofs. Make your own instructional video. Show a clear picture of the basic relationships among segments and angles, to avoid frustration with sloppy justifications later in the year.
This lesson contains 11 SmartBoard pages with probing questio
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Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Riddles and Brainteasers
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.
Grades:
7th - 12th
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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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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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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
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
Multiple Intelligence (MI) SMARTboard (Secondary/Adult) 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:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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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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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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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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Can You Help These Scarecrows Figure Out Their Names?
Pick the scarecrow whose name you want to figure out and place the
"?" card under his picture. Then follow the numbered cards with the clues to figure out your scarecrows name, then place the pink name card under your scarecrow once you know his name. Have fun!!
Grades:
PreK - 12th
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FunRiddles1
15 smart book pages of interactive riddles. Use at the beginning of class or at the end of the day. Appropriate for all ages. Lots of fun!
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Grades:
3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Classroom rules
Create schema, and collaboratively create classroom rules that students can take ownership of.
Grades:
6th - 8th
Viking Challenge
A group activity that challenges students to try prepare for a Viking ocean voyage.
Grades:
6th - 9th
FunRiddles
Smart board program with 5 pages of riddles. Interactive pages. Can be used to start the class period or end the day. Appropriate for grades 3-12. Fun!!
Check out my other riddles for sale.
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Grades:
3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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