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3rd grade science thematic unit plan interactive whiteboards
Polar Habitats PowerPoint
This is 25 slide PowerPoint with images of the polar landscape and habitat. It includes a map showing where the polar regions are located and images and descriptions and definitions of tundra, glaciers, icebergs, and arctic animals such as fox, polar bears, penguins, hares, and caribou. It shows images of these arctic animals in their natural camoflage. It also shows cold water ocean animals, such as whales, walruses, and seals. It discusses hibernation of bears and the inuit / eskimo crea
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K - 3rd
Phases of Matter (Solids, Liquids, Gases) Bundle
Save $$$ when you buy this bundle instead of buying each individually.This bundle includes the following lessons:Phases of Matter: Root Beer FloatsSmartboard Fun: Sorting Solids & Liquids - Phases of MatterSmartboard Fun: Let's Describe Matter (Solids, Liquids, & Gases)I Spy States of MatterProduct descriptions below:Phases of Matter Root Beer Floats:This lesson will have your students fully engaged and identifying all the phases of matter while they make a root beer float. The powerpoin
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PreK - 3rd
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
Bear Powerpoint! Black, Brown, Grizzly, Polar, Sun, Panda, Koala
I created this PowerPoint to help my students learn about different types of bears. It focuses on each different type of bear (and Koala's) and teaches facts that allow students to compare and contrast the different types of bears (and marsupials)! Students will learn where each of these bears live, what they eat, hibernation techniques, cubs (and joeys), size, and fun facts! There are multiple links for short informational videos about each type of bear that correlate to the material being read
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PreK - 5th
Distance Learning | Virtual Field Trip to Space with Holst's Planet Suite
Oh how I love Gustav Holst's Planet Suite! It's programmatic, beautiful, and engaging. Want a tie into Social Studies / History? Study these Roman gods. Want to connect to Science and the planets? Here ya go! Connection to art? There are coloring Listening glyphs included. How about connecting to math? Identify these time signatures or the rhythmic chant in Jupiter's 5/4 ostinato. Relating each movement on the exit slip to an emoji is a nice Social-Emotional Learning component!This Virtual Field
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1st - 9th
Eureka ELA Engage NY 2nd Grade Unit 6 Cycles in Nature (18 powerpoints)
Unit 6 includes 9 story lesson powerpoints each with lesson preview, story, and questions from the story. Included are 9 extension activity powerpoints...18 powerpoints in all!!!!
After trial and error, I found the best way for to teach Eureka ELA is with the use of Powerpoints. It eliminates the hassle of fumbling through manipulatives and allows time to better engage students during the learning experience. I spent well over 200 hours creating a lesson for each Unit. Additionally, the Powerpo
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1st - 3rd
Virginia 4th Grade Science SMARTboard Mega Bundle - All 8 SOL Units
This listing offers all 8 Virginia 4th grade Science SOL unit SMARTboards. Each SMARTboard covers an entire unit and all Virginia 4th grade SOLs for that topic. These SMARTboards are well organized, super fun, and interactive with tons of pictures, video links, and engaging components. These will replace your need for a textbook! I also offer interactive notebooks that correspond with each of these SMARTboard unit lessons. Check out my other Virginia SOL Products at my store: https://www.t
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3rd - 8th
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
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1st - 4th
Arctic SMART Board Thematic Unit
This is an interactive SMART Board presentation about the climate, culture, people, communities, and animals in the Arctic. It includes lessons, videos, interactive slides, lab ideas, and writing/craft activities for each subtopic including the tundra, the Inuit people, land animals and camouflage, Arctic animals with fur, Arctic animals with feathers, and Arctic animals with blubber.
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K - 3rd
Your Amazing Body
This power point is very child friendly and contains many visuals as well as some animations to keep students' attention in focus. The power point is broken down as follows:
Slide 1- Cover Page
Slide 2- The Skeletal system
Slide 3- The Skull
Slide 4- The Spine
Slide 5- The Ribs
Slide 6- Pelvis and Leg Bones
Slide 7- Arm bones
Slides 8-12- Taking care of your bones (foods, exercise, proper protection)
Slides 13-17- Muscles (smooth, cardiac, skeletal)
Slides 18- 21 The Skin ( The epidermis, dermi
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1st - 5th
All About Ants - Smartboard Unit - Life Cycle and SO MUCH MORE!
*****SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE***** Only $5 until midnight Saturday - after that it will go up to it's slated price of $8.
Wow! I set out to make a Mini Unit on the Life Cycle of the Ant for Smartboard but what emerged was a COMPLETE interactive unit jam packed with goodness. Between interactive files, hyperlinked videos, informative slides, fact/opinion slides and games, life lessons learned from ants etc - this unit has EVERYTHING you need for now and years to come! Please check out the p
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PreK - 3rd
Eureka ELA Engage NY 2nd Grade Unit 8 Insects (16 powerpoints)
Unit 8 includes 8 story lesson powerpoints each with lesson preview, story, and questions from the story. Included are 8 extension activity powerpoints...16 powerpoints in all!!!!
After trial and error, I found the best way for to teach Eureka ELA is with the use of Powerpoints. It eliminates the hassle of fumbling through manipulatives and allows time to better engage students during the learning experience. I spent well over 200 hours creating a lesson for each Unit. Additionally, the Powerpo
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Weather
If you teach Weather, this is ALL you will need!
Included in this bundle are my...
**Instructional Unit SMARTboard Lesson
**19 page Interactive Notebook
**55 page instructional packet.
Contents of each item are listed below, and you can find them listed individually here on TPT if you’d like to find reviews/picture previews. I’ve designed this specifically to cover ALL Virginia SOLs for the fourth grade Weather unit (SOLs 4.6), but it could be used anywhere from 3rd—8th grade and up! A
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3rd - 8th
Eureka ELA Engage NY 2nd Grade Unit 7 Westward Expansion (18 powerpoints)
Unit 7 includes 9 story lesson powerpoints each with lesson preview, story, and questions from the story. Included are 9 extension activity powerpoints...18 powerpoints in all!!!!
After trial and error, I found the best way for to teach Eureka ELA is with the use of Powerpoints. It eliminates the hassle of fumbling through manipulatives and allows time to better engage students during the learning experience. I spent well over 200 hours creating a lesson for each Unit. Additionally, the Powerpo
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1st - 3rd
Smartboard Fun: Energy Sorting Lesson
Are you studying energy with your Special Education students and need some fun interactive lessons? Try this lesson out. I made it for my Special Education kiddos while we were doing a unit on energy. Specifically this lesson covers:Sorting pictures into the different energy categories. The first page is sorting electrical energy, light energy and wind energy. The second page is sorting heat energy vs. sound energy.Check out my energy bingo game for more fun activities: ⭐Energy BINGO**Please n
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PreK - 5th
Desert Habitat PowerPoint
This is an 11 slide PowerPoint with images of the desert landscape and habitat. It includes a map of desert regions and images of cactus, camels, tarantulas, snakes, scorpions and dry landscape and scrub vegetation. This is a great introduction to a unit on deserts of different types of habitats.
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K - 3rd
Classifying Animals: Vertebrates and Invertebrate Interactive Unit
Full unit Plan on Classifying animals into two groups, which are vertebrates and invertebrates. Each day of the Unit includes pre-class activities, interactive mini-lessons focused on each topic, engaging student activities, discussion questions, and exit tickets. The power point is a tool used to help guide the unit and ensures that students learn by building on their prior knowledge. Through this powerpoint students DIG DEEP into vertebrates and invertebrates and learn how to classify them bas
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3rd - 5th
Virtual Road Trip of Zoos and Aquariums in the U.S.A.
This virtual road trip will take students to 6 different zoos and aquariums across the United States. The road trip starts in Monterey Bay (Aquarium) and goes to San Diego Zoo, the Seattle Aquarium, the Denver Zoo, the Georgia Aquarium before ending in Apollo Beach, FL at the Manatee Viewing center. Through each trip students are exposed to various science skills and concepts through exploration, research, discussion and vocabulary. Below is a breakdown of the focus of each area. Monterey Ba
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2nd - 6th
NGSS:
4-LS1-1
, MS-LS2-2
, 5-LS2-1
, 3-LS2-1
, 3-LS4-3
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Electricity SMART Board Thematic Unit
This is an interactive SMART Board Unit that includes lesson plans for "How Does Energy Move with Electroscopes," "Transforming Energy and Creating SImple Circuits," "Insulators and Conductors," "Open and Closed Circuits," "Series and Parallel Circuits," and "Static Electricity."
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2nd - 4th
Interactive Weather Thematic Unit
This Smartboard file has everything you need for to teach your unit on weather.
It introduces weather, precipitation, weather tools, and storms. This group of lessons has been created to include everything your student will need to know for the Virginia SOLs.
In addition to introducing the material there sorting pages, a guided activity, and even a chance to practice using a thermometer!
Check out my file on The Water Cycle in my store!
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1st - 3rd
Common Core ENVIRONMENT Thematic Unit for Reader's Workshop
This is a week long unit for Reader's Workshop on the thematic unit of the ENVIRONMENT and its impact on TREE life cycles. This unit uses: "Someday a Tree†(by Eve Bunting), "The Lorax†(by Dr. Suess), "Be a Friend to Trees," and any (grade appropriate) informational book about tree life cycles.
All of the activities on the slides are related to the common core curriculum. You can print the slides for students to use as a recording sheet, or I also sell full copies of each of these record
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1st - 3rd
Common Core Butterfly Life Cycle Writer's Workshop Thematic Unit
This is a week long unit for Writer's Workshop on the thematic unit of BUTTERFLY life cycles. This unit uses Eve Bunting's, "Butterfly House," and any (grade appropriate) informational book about butterflies.
All of the activities on the slides are related to the common core curriculum. You can print the slides for students to use as a recording sheet, or I also sell full copies of each of these recording sheets you see on the slides.
There is also a week long Reader's Workshop SMART present
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1st - 3rd
Plant Unit & Review Activities
This Smartboard file has everything you need to make your unit on plants interesting.
The first half is a great introduction to your uni, complete with pictures and activities.
The second half is meant to be used as a review. I use this to help my students prepare for the SOLs. It is also a fun way to wrap up your unit.
Topics reviewed are: plant parts (labeling and uses), plant's needs, plant products, plants that grow in Virginia, plant habitats, and the plant life cycle.
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2nd - 3rd
Common Core Environment Writer's Workshop Thematic Unit
This is a week long unit for Writer's Workshop on the thematic unit of the ENVIRONMENT and its impact on TREE life cycles. This unit uses: "Someday a Tree†(by Eve Bunting), "The Lorax†(by Dr. Suess), "Be a Friend to Trees,†and any (grade appropriate) informational book about tree life cycles.
All of the activities on the slides are related to the common core curriculum. You can print the slides for students to use as a recording sheet, or I also sell full copies of each of these recordi
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
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