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3rd grade science lessons for SMART Notebook
Landforms SMARTboard interactive activity- games and Discovery Education links
Check out the video PREVIEW of this lesson.
I am SUPER excited about this lesson! This is a fun, interactive SMARTboard .notebook whiteboard activity for Landforms.
Landforms included are:
oceans, canyons, valleys, mountains, plains, volcano, island, lakes, hills, deserts, and rivers
For EACH landform is a link to Discovery Education videos. Your school has to be subscribed to this for the link to work. If your school does not have a subscription, YouTube has many videos. The SMARTboard l
Grades:
1st - 5th
Non-Fiction Exploration Unit: Lessons, Slides, Activities and More!
Smart Notebook slides for Non-Fiction unit: Includes 75 slides with lessons, activities, turn and talk, resources and more!
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Grades:
K - 4th
Also included in: Non-Fiction Unit Plans, Activities and Resources
Early Map Skills
This UNIT contains Smartboard lessons that are geared towards children who are just learning basic map skills. Some key concepts covered are the following.
Introduction to a variety of maps, Early maps, Parts of Maps, Directions (N,S,E,W), Compass Rose, Map Symbols, Map Keys, Scale, Standard and Metric Scale Measurements, Map Titles, Map Labels, Types of Maps, Globes, The Equator, Hemispheres, Landforms, Relief Maps, Product Quilts. This Unit also includes printable worksheets available in PDF
Grades:
1st - 4th
Matter Smartboard Lessons and Activities
**Don't have a Smartboard? Don't worry!! This exact same product is now available for use with PowerPoint!**
Matter Smartboard Lessons and Activities is an interactive, exciting way to teach matter! Slides have object animation to catch students attention and keep them engaged in the learning process! This Smartboard unit covers matter, liquids, solids, gases, mass, volume, properties, physical changes, and chemical changes. Plus it has slides for four experiments, as well as places to record
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Sound Smartboard Lessons and Activities
Sound Smartboard Lessons and Activities is an interactive, exciting way to teach sound! Slides have object animation to catch students attention and keep them engaged in the learning process! This Smartboard unit covers vibrations, parts of the ear, and pitch. It also has two quick experiments about vibrations and a longer experiment about pitch.
Sound Smartboard Lessons and Activities is meant to take approximately three weeks (though it can take less time depending on how you use it). The fi
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Arctic Animal Wonderland w Penguins, Seals, Walrus', Polar Bears SMARTboard
Welcome to our Arctic Animal Wonderland for SMARTboard (.notebook)
This Smartboard file includes 13 delightfully created activities:
Label the Polar Bear
Fun Facts about the Polar Bear with word bank
Label the Walrus
Fun Facts about the Walrus with word bank
Label the Seal
Fun Facts about the Seal with word bank
Label the Penguin
Fun Facts about the Penguin with word bank
1, 2, and 3 syllable word sort
Circle the Initial Sound
Sort the Arctic Animals from smallest to largest
Arrange the words i
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Grades:
K - 3rd
Butterfly Life Cycle Interactive Calendar
This download is SmartBoard ready and able to help you and your students track your Butterfly Life Cycle experience! This calendar can be used year after year and you can print copies for your students to keep at their seats (while you update your visual... your students are keeping their own record)! A great idea is to have your students make a prediction on their calendar for when the butterflies could hatch. Even better, flutter across the curriculum and have your students write about thei
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Grades:
PreK - 3rd
Human Ear SmartBoard Lesson
Take a virtual trip into the human ear! Let your children dive into how the human ear works, from the entrance of sound waves, up to the brain! This SmartBoard lesson includes information on:
-Inner, middle, and outer ear
-Eardrum
-Sound waves
-Information on how sound waves travel
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
Primary Connections Package It Better-Chem. Science WHOLE TERM'S WORK DONE 4 YOU
You will need to BUY THE OUTLINE- "PACKAGE IT BETTER: YEAR 4" from Primary Connections: primaryconnections.org.au (Or download it from Scootle for free on the DEC portal if you're a NSW teacher. Not sure about other states). The inserted 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. Worksheets are also attached. You will need to follow preparatio
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Grades:
3rd - 4th
Weather and 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 determine a region’s climate.
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 an
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
Conductors and Insulators-Interactive Lesson
Students will:
1. review the parts of a simple circuit,
2. understand the meaning of the conductor and insulator,
2. identify whether particular solids and fluids are conductors or insulators using virtual experiments,
4. understand why conductors conduct electricity and insulators do not,
5. recognize that good conductors of electricity tend to be good conductors of heat.
Each page invites your learner to interactive with the subject to engage the information. Lessons use audio, animation, vi
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Contour Maps-Interactive Lesson
Students will:
1. understand that contour maps show the features of a region,
2. understand how contour lines provide details of the elevation of features and structures,
3. learn how to use topographic maps to draw cross sections and to match topographic maps with landform cross sections.
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 l
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
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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Grades:
K - 6th
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Smartboard Animal Family Characteristics
This plan contains 42 slides covering mammals, birds, reptiles and insects. amphibians and fish. It explains the characteristics of each animal group and gives example of each trait. It also includes an animal sort at the end to assess understanding.
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Smartboard: States of Matter (Solids, Liquids, Gases)
This is a Smart Notebook 11 file. This lesson is designed to teach the three states of matter: Solids, Liquids, Gases. There are 7 slides in this file.
1. Definition of Melting, Evaporation, Condensing, Freezing
2. What is a Gas?
3. What is a Liquid?
4. What is a Solid?
5. Irreversible changes
6. Reversible changes
7. Flash sorting activity Solids, Liquids, Gases (Students will drag
items into the appropriate categories.)
Please download the preview to see thumbnail p
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Grades:
3rd - 4th
The Skeletal and Muscular Systems-Interactive Lesson
Students will:
1. identify and describe the functions of the skeletal system and its major bones,
2. understand how the muscular system interacts with the skeletal system.
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 your learners’ progress.
To use these lesson
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Energy and Work-Interactive Lesson
Students will:
1. understand that energy has the ability to cause motion or to create change,
2. understand that work is done when an object moves a distance or when something undergoes a chemical change,
3. recognize different forms of energy,
4. understand that energy is often transformed between different forms of energy.
Each page invites your learner to interactive with the subject to engage the information. Lessons use audio, animation, virtual manipulatives and other engaging experience
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy-Interactive Lesson
Students will:
1. compare and contrast renewable and non-renewable energy,
2. understand what fossil fuels are and how they are formed,
3. study how electricity can be generated from a variety of energy sources,
4. examine the benefits and drawbacks of different energy sources.
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 a
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Soil-Interactive Lesson
Students will:
1. understand what soil is and how it is formed,
2. understand the factors that cause or prevent soil erosion,
3. identify soil layers and the general properties of each layer.
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 your learners’ progress.
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Fossils-Interactive Lesson
Students will:
1. understand the nature of a fossil and how fossils are formed,
2. understand what fossils can teach us about organism development and Earth’s history,
3. examine a variety of fossils,
4. create strategies for identifying a fossil’s organism or its modern-day relative(s).
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 le
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
Electric Circuits-Interactive Lesson
Students will:
1. understand the elements needed to create an electric circuit,
2. identify the different features of series and parallel circuits.
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 your learners’ progress.
To use these lessons you will need a free v
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Erosion Smart Board Lesson for K-5 students with Photos and Group Activity
Use this lesson to teach students about erosion and how it changes our landforms on Earth. There are many real photographs to show how water and wind shape the earth and also a culminating activity where students work collaboratively to select a problem associated with erosion and discuss possible solutions to solve it. Enjoy!
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Grades:
K - 5th
Sound Waves-Interactive Lesson
Students will:
1. understand that sound is a vibration that travels in waves,
2. understand frequency and amplitude, and how they define the pitch and loudness or softness of a sound,
3. understand how and why frequency and amplitude change the characteristics of sound waves.
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
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Introduction to the Water Cycle Interactive Smartboard Activity
Thi file is a Notebook software Smartboard interactve inroduction to the water cycle. The beginning draws students in by showing slide with animated dinosaurs and askng them if they new they drink the same water that was around at the time of the dinosaurs. The next slides are interactive. By clicking on each of the four main parts of the water cycle (evaporation,collection, precipitation, condensation)the link brings you to a new slide describing each of these processes. Press the button an
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Grades:
K - 5th
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