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3rd grade social studies unit plan interactive whiteboards
European Explorers: Age of Exploration, Voyages, New World Discoveries & MORE!
Looking for an easy-to-use social studies unit on early European explorers for your third, fourth, or fifth grade class? Look no further! Our unit is designed to take your students on an exciting voyage during the Age of Exploration, where they'll learn about and experience the journeys of early European explorers.Our engaging hands-on student activities, including learning centers, a review game, and unit assessment, are available in both printable and digital formats, making prep a breeze. Our
Grades:
3rd - 5th
National Symbols – 13 American Symbols & National Landmark Activities & Lessons
Our American Symbols Unit features THIRTEEN COMPLETE Common Core-aligned lessons with a balanced mix of engaging higher and lower level hands-on activities to teach 1st-3rd grade students about our nation's National Symbols:
• National Symbols Pre and Post Tests
• Nonfiction Informational text-we provide all of the National Symbols CONTENT
• Questions to assess Informational Text Comprehension after each of the 13 lessons
• short Research Project to make the game Find the Fib using True and Fal
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Branches of Government, Voting, and Elections SMARTBoard Unit
Government, Voting, and Elections SmartBoard Unit Your grades 3-6 students will love learning about how our government is structured, the history of voting rights, and elections! This interactive and engaging SmartBoard Unit (which will be updated before the 2024 election to reflect the current candidates for President and Vice President) is designed for teachers who have an actual SMART brand interactive whiteboard.There are links to videos and a variety of activities, such as text reveal, true
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Coral Reef Powerpoint
Ever get tired of introducing things from a text where the pictures are not big enough for everyone to see... This is the perfect way to solve that problem! Use this as a great supplement to your oceans unit and help introduce the coral reef! With the powerpoint background being black, the colors in the pictures really pop!
Grades:
K - 6th
SC Explorers Unit: PowerPoint, lesson plans, graphic organizers, and test
UNIT 4: EARLY EXPLORERS OF SOUTH CAROLINA
The SC Explorers Unit is a comprehensive five-day (approximately 45 minutes per day) instructional unit focused on the early European explorers of South Carolina. This package includes:
* SC Explorers Unit Lesson Plans
~Written in Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI) format. Each day includes a Learning Objective, Activating Prior Knowledge (APK) activity, Mini Lesson, Guided Practice activity, Independent Practice activity, and Active Closure act
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Grades:
3rd
Regions of Pennsylvania Unit
Teach your students the five regions of Pennsylvania with this five day unit. This unit includes editable, zero prep Google slides that can be used on your interactive whiteboard or online for students working virtually. Slides are formatted for easy printing. Review vocabulary while having fun with daily interactive review activities.Day 5 can be used as an assessment. Answer Keys provided. Coordinating pages to be used in an interactive notebook are included.
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Native American's of Pennsylvania Unit
Teach your students about the indigenous people of Pennsylvania in this six day unit.Explore the villages, daily life, and homes of both the Algonquian and Iroquois people of Pennsylvania. This unit includes editable, zero prep Google slides that can be used on your interactive whiteboard or online for students working virtually.Slides are formatted for easy printing.Review vocabulary while having fun with daily interactive review activities.Day 6 can be used as an assessment.Answer Keys provid
Grades:
3rd - 6th
ELA Grade 3 Module 1 Units 1, 2, AND 3 BUNDLE! UPDATED 2014!
SAVE BY BUYING THE BUNDLE RATHER THAN INDIVIDUALLY PURCHASING ALL OF ITS CONTENTS! Grade 3 ELA Module 1 Units 1, 2, AND 3! Aligned with the New York State Common Core Learning Standards. These 266 SmartBoard slides will engage students of all learning styles. These lessons will save you hours of designing, scanning, copying, pasting, and typing. These SmartBoard Notebook files were created by veteran 3rd grade teachers with Master's Degrees in the area of Literacy. Enjoy and let us know how well
Grades:
3rd
Pilgrim Unit for the Google Classroom
Pilgrim Unit- Complete UnitHave fun learning about the Pilgrims through this interactive unit!! This unit has everything you need to teach your students about the Pilgrims and their voyage to the New World. This unit is very engaging and interactive for your students!This unit was created with the Google Classroom and technology in mind. This unit contains 75 pages of interactive slides that can be used for Google Classroom OR on a promethean board for whole class instruction and discussion.Thi
Grades:
1st - 4th
American Government Unit
This 98 page patriotic unit includes:
*Vocabulary posters
*Famous American Posters
*53 pages of colorful lessons with pictures (project onto activeboard)
*day-by-day teacher plans
*student workbook with many activities for all lessons and are easy to check for mastery
*government responsibilities sorting center
*task cards for a review center
**All print is very large and easy to read**
**If you purchase and need/want any additional materials to go with this unit, I will be glad to make it f
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Community - Road Signs!
GREAT activity for social studies/community unit, safety, reasoning, reading, verbal expression, & vocabulary development! Signs presented are ones that the students can commonly see in their environment.4 Slides. Students move the phrases to the box beside the associated sign. Each slide has one answer that is not a match.
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2nd - 6th, Staff
Westward Expansion's Greatest Hits: A SmartBoard Intro for Grades 3-6
During the years of 1804-1869, the United States expanded westward and people migrated like no other time in American history. The country grew in size, and as the east became more crowded, the west beckoned.
This 45 page SmartBoard presentation in designed for instructional purposes, but can also serve to help students learn to take notes, as it highlights the main points and impact of five major events during the time of Westward Expansion.
This presentation includes
* A timeline with ma
Grades:
3rd - 6th
2nd Grade Geography Unit Flipchart
Interactive geography unit Flipchart introduces geography and it's key parts! Great for all ages, but made to cover all 2nd grade standards. Excellent interactive piece to excite students about learning geography!
*15 slides!
*Topics included: Geography, compass rose, maps, continents, countries, states, cities and more!
If you like this product, try:
Weather Unit Plan & Flipchart
Matter Unit Plan & Flipchart
Writing Unit Plans & Flipcharts
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Grades:
1st - 4th
Immigration and America: Beringia to 1790: A SmartBoard Intro for Grades 3-6
America is a land of immigrants. Most Americans can trace their ancestry back to an immigrant, and 40% of Americans can directly trace their ancestry back to Ellis Island!
This 35 page SmartBoard presentation in designed for instructional purposes, but can also serve to help students learn to take notes, as it highlights the main points and impact of four major events and people who influenced immigration to the United States during early American history and prehistoric times, and reasons
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Where in the World? Latitude and Longitude: A SmartBoard Intro for Grades 3-6
The world is a vast place! Cartographers designed latitude and longitude coordinates to help identify the absolute location of a place on the Earth.
This 26 page SmartBoard presentation in designed for instructional purposes, and breaks down this abstract concept for younger learners to understand. It also includes two interactive activities at the end, allowing students to test out their new knowledge of latitude and longitude.
This presentation includes
* What is latitude?
* What is lo
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Learn all about Thomas Jefferson
Learn about his life and places he livedLearn about his hobbies and inventionsLearn about his contributions to our countryLearn about how we honor his life
Grades:
2nd - 12th
Also included in: Washington/Jefferson/Lincoln Bundle
Lewis & Clark Expedition (Westward Expansion)
This comprehensive Lewis & Clark Unit includes:-40 Teaching Slides-An interactive map that students can use to follow the Corps of Discovery throughout the expedition-Videos-Critical Thinking Prompts-An interactive board game to review
Grades:
2nd - 12th
Rights and Responsibilities Unit
Teaching Rights and Responsibilities to primary age students is a necessity. These SmartBoard slides align with the Social Studies Core Content and help students learn/ review the importance of rules, laws, and citizenship in all areas of life. The lessons are designed to be student centered so students are able to interact and discuss all topics in partnerships or small groups. There are a total of 8 days of lessons and each lesson should last approximately 30 minutes. All lessons include a
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Black History Month Circle Maps with linked videos
This Black History Month item is a smartboard notebook file that includes pictures and linked classroom-appropriate youtube.com videos! I've highlighted 16 important figures during Black History Month that include Obama, Goode, Robinson, and many other important figures that we can celebrate during this month! Each page is designed as a bubble map to brainstorm facts that you know or learn about each individual and the lines at the bottom are great for guided, shared, or modeled writing!
Grades:
PreK - 8th
Grasslands Unit
This a SMART notebook file that forms a complete 4 lesson unit about grasslands, including, overview of grasslands, grassland animals, focus animal - Rhino and Human Impact on Grasslands.
This file includes links to videos, books, games and has an activity to complete at the end of each lesson to summarise knowledge learnt and can help with assessment. The activities at the end of each lesson are based around writing descriptions, requiring more detail and using less scaffolding towards the end
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Grades:
2nd - 9th
Passport to Your City
This is a SmartBoard lesson that was used in third grade with the Social Studies Alive Curriculum. It has my home town in it, but it would be easy to substitute your town in place. It teaches north, east, south, west, Prime Meridian, and the Equator. Then it also touches on city, state, and country. It includes interactive games and interactive websites listed at the end.
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Grades:
K - 4th
Common Core Reading Unit on "Itse Selu" CHEROKEE Harvest Festival
You will need SMART Notebook software to use this file. This week long unit (4 days) is made to be used on your SMART Board. It is based on the book "Itse Selu: Cherokee Harvest Festival," an informational text on the Cherokee Native Americans. Students will learn about the Cherokee, as well as learn about getting to know themselves as a reader: choosing a just right book, the five finger rule, etc. This unit includes 14 slides that you can also print for student responses. Be sure to look
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Pennsylvania State Symbols Unit
Inside you will find 5 lessons to help your students learn the state symbols of Pennsylvania. Lessons 1-4 teach and review the most common state symbols from PA. Lesson 5 reviews all of the symbols and practices using information on a timeline. All lessons are editable. Do you want to help your students practice picking out important information in a text? Use the "Recording Sheet" slideshow found in this unit to help your students record important information learned during the lessons. St
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Also included in: Pennsylvania's State Symbols Unit and Assessment
New Nation
Interactive Smart Board lesson covering the three branches of government, federalists and anti-federalists, and the bill of rights.
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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