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10th grade social studies resources for SMART Notebook and for special education
Virginia Studies SMARTboard Lesson - Jamestown - SOL VS.3
**Updated to the NEW Virginia SOLS (2016)**
This is a 37 page instructional SMART Board lesson that covers Virginia Studies SOLs VS.3 - the entire Jamestown Unit. This lesson is full of interactive activities, video clips, websites, pictures and more!
This SMARTboard usually takes me about 2 -3 weeks to teach. It is aligned perfectly to my interactive notebook on this topic that is also listed here on TPT. You can find it here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Virginia-Studies-Int
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3rd - 10th
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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Social Story - I Shouldn't Always Say What I Am Thinking
This is a social story created for the middle or high school level special education class. This story helps students to understand when it is not acceptable to just blurt out what they may be thinking and why. Relevant examples are used as they would be seen in the school day. 10 - 15 minute notebook file and discussion.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Disability Awareness Activities
The SMART notebook provides the user with activities for participants to engage in that simulate various learning challenges. It is appropriate for students or for adults in a professional development seminar.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
Virginia Studies SMARTboard Lesson - VA in the Civil War - SOL VS.7
**Updated in 2017 for the new SOLs!**
This is a 24 page instructional SMART Board lesson that covers Virginia Studies SOLs VS.7. This lesson is full of interactive activities, video clips, games, websites, and more! Use this to teach your entire unit on Virginia in the Civil War!
This SMARTboard usually takes me about 2 weeks to teach. It is aligned perfectly to my interactive notebook on this topic that is also listed here on TPT. You can find it here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Pro
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3rd - 12th
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A Christmas Carol activities
Smart Board activities to go with my "A Christmas Carol in symbols with questions." Includes functional reading, writing, and math activities designed for young children or those with moderate to severe cognitive handicaps. Matching symbols to words, forming sentences with symbols, simple addition and subtraction word problems, counting quarters. Appropriate for special needs students, including autism, Down Syndrome, and traumatic brain injury, and FMD. Symbols are helpful for emerging read
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PreK - 12th
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Public Vs. Private Activity
This is a Smartboard activity reinforcing the concept of private areas and public areas. The activity is designed for both sexes. It has 10 slides of a picture that can either be private or public. There are 3 pictures of boys and girls on either side. They are either fully clothed, in a bathing suit, or naked (as represented by black censor bars!)
The way I use it is have the student define whether the picture is a private or a public place. We then talk why the picture is public or private.
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K - 12th
Trivia Crack- U.S. History Review
Fantastic and engaging tool for reviewing U.S. History, especially for the FL EOC exam. Separates the multiple choice practice into unit-based categories. Most questions were pulled from the public domain of the NYS Regents website.
This is a SmartNotebook file. The preview contains a sneak peak but the final product 282 slides.
I use this game as part of a larger review competition in which the icons on the spinner are printed out in mass and given to students when they earn a point. Once we
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7th - 12th
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Special Education Morning Meeting Template
This Morning Meeting Template allows for students to discuss their schedule, the day, date, month, year, season, weather, temperature, and what the lunch menu will be while placing it in the new My Plate food categories. This is to be used with Smart Notebook Software so that students can interactively complete the sentences by writing on the board. Includes a link for students to look up the weather on www.weather.com. Students are able to fill in a graph compiling the weather forecasts for eac
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PreK - 12th
United States Labeling Puzzle Map
This is a map of the United States for students to label. Teachers can scramble up the puzzle and students put it back together. This is a great activity to get students up out of their seats and do a hands-on activity with technology
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6th - 10th
ELA Writing Alternate Assessments for Special Education Autism
Common Core aligned Smart Board Presentations, Activities, Assessments, and Artifacts to teach and assess students with special needs, giving them access to grade-level standards. These artifacts are cut and paste sentence strips with increasing numbers of lines and increasing difficulty in vocabulary and numbers of words in the sentences. All artifacts can be made with the included clip art to illustrate the paragraphs. I use the Smart Board slides to teach the lesson and to model sequencing ti
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2nd - 10th
Central America and The Caribbean - Spanish Lesson
This Notebook file is a great introduction to the countries and capitals of Central America and Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries. Students can move around the labels of the countries and capitals, play a dice game to practice what they know, and enjoy several rap songs. Spanish sentence-starters will help students talk about where the countries are located. Also included are pictures from around Central America and flags.
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5th - 12th
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The Very Itchy Bear Guided Reading 4 Days - Four Blocks Literacy
This is a SMART notebook file that forms 4 days (or 1 weeks) worth of guided reading lessons for the book The Very Itchy Bear by Nick Bland.
This file follows the Anchor, Read, Apply model and has a purpose for reading the book each day.
Included with each day's purpose is a link to the Six Hats Thinking Model.
This file was made originally for a high school special education class using the Four Block Method of Instruction but can easily be used in most school classrooms, for home school, rel
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PreK - 10th
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Food Chain lesson for Special Education
This is a food chain lesson the includes a repeated story line, 5 interactive comprehension questions, and a vocabulary page. It focuses on the definition of food chain, producer, consumer, herbivore, and carnivore. It is great for special education students including students with autism.
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6th - 12th
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Central America and Caribbean Labeling Puzzle map
Map of Central America and Caribbean for students to label. Teachers can scramble up the puzzle and students put it back together. This is a great activity to get students up out of their seats and do a hands-on activity with technology
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6th - 10th
A Christmas Carol in symbols with questions
An adapted version of the classic story of Scrooge. Appropriate for special needs students, including autism, Down Syndrome, and traumatic brain injury, and FMD. Symbols are helpful for emerging readers of all ages. Also see the matching SmartBoard activities at my store, Alternate Route Educational Products, for only $1.
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PreK - 12th
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Jeopardy Template for the Smartboard
This Jeopardy template is ready to use! All you need to do is add the questions you need your students to review. This Jeopardy game board can fit up to 5 questions in each of 4 different categories. Links are built-in to make transition from board to questions easy and flawless. Save the template so you can use it again and again. Have fun!
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3rd - 12th
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Lewis and Clark Expedition Postcard Lesson
This lesson is based on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Included in the Smart Notebook file is a Bell Ringer, Video Guide, Timeline, Postcard Assignment Directions, and a Postcard Model. The idea of the lesson is to utilize a video resource and timeline to help students identify the goals, accomplishments, and positive/negative experiences associated with the efforts of the Corps of Discovery from 1804-1806 and then to use that knowledge to extend their own learning by creating an original pos
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5th - 10th
Student Led IEP Meeting Format
This is a very student friendly eight Smart Board slide presentation designed for the student to be an active part in their IEP meeting. It provides an opportunity for them to share their understanding of their IEP and to set personal short and long term goals for life. It also includes such things as addressing accomodations for testing etc. It is now designed as a transition presentation from one grade to the next but could easily be adapted for any IEP review.
Student Led IEP Meeting Format b
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PreK - 10th
Remembrance Day
This is a SMART notebook file that forms a complete lesson about Remembrance Day. This was made in Australia so has a slight Australian perspective, but can easily be used in any country that observes Remembrance Day.
The file includes links to a video, book, jigsaws and craft activity to complete at the end of the lesson.
This was originally designed for special education but can easily be used for most ages or ability levels.
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2nd - 10th
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Power Grab Game: Separation of Powers
This activity reinforces and teaching the powers of the three branches of government. Students are broken up into teams and exposed to various situations where one branch steals the power of a another branch. Students need to use the US Constitution to prove that this is a power grab in order to earn a point. Simulation and answers are included in the SMART notebook.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Geography- Europe Labeling Puzzle Map
Map of Europe for students to label. Teachers can scramble up the puzzle and students put it back together. This is a great activity to get students up out of their seats and do a hands-on activity with technology
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Grades:
6th - 10th
Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas Guided Reading Weekly Plan - Four Blocks Literacy
This is a SMART notebook file that forms 4 days (or 1 weeks) worth of guided reading lessons for the book Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas.
This file follows the Anchor, Read, Apply model and has a purpose for reading the book each day.
This file was made originally for a high school special education class using the Four Block Method of Instruction but can easily be used in most school classrooms, for home school, relief teaching, etc.
Each purpose is also identified being a particular hat from th
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Grades:
K - 10th
Bike/Bicycle Safety and Wearing a Helmet
This is a Smart Notebook file that forms a lesson on Bike/Bicycle Safety and Wearing a Helmet. It was originally made for a special needs class but can easily be used for a class of nearly any age or ability. It includes links to videos and a activity idea to be completed at the end to summarise the lesson.
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3rd - 12th
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