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Smart: Propaganda Techniques
In this lesson students learn what propaganda is and how to identify it. Students have the opportunity to create a video of propaganda.
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Smart: Colonial Life
Factors that shaped British Colonial America. Compare and contrast life in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies.
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Smart: Exploring Explorers
This is a lesson activity which is written to engage visual and kinesthetic learners in their study on explorers: Leif Eriksson, Christopher Columbus, Erik the Red, Vasco Da Gama, John Cabot, Marco Polo, and Ferdinand Magellan.
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Smart: Fact vs. Opinion
In this activity provided by SMART, students will learn and practice separating fact from opinion.
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Smart: Prefix and Suffix Mix Up
In this activity provided by SMART, students will learn the meaning of common prefixes and suffixes, practice combining root words with prefixes and suffixes, and recognize changes in words after combining prefixes and suffixes.
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Smart: Ancient World Religions
Compare various religions and explore their similarities and differences in this SMART lesson plan. An opportunity to learn each religion's location of origin and basic tenets is provided as well.
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Smart: Factors and Multiples
Students are introduced to prime numbers, composite numbers, prime factorization, greatest common factor, and least common multiple in this SMART whiteboard activity.
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Smart: Simplifying Ratios (Smart Created)
Practice simplifying a ratio in this lesson by SMART. A question set accompanied by Spanish and French versions of this activity can be found on this site.
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Smart: Halloween Poems
Using textual clues, students will match pictures with appropriate text within this Halloween-themed SMART whiteboard activity.
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Smart: Reviewing Sequence of Events
Students will identify time-order words in order to comprehend passages, place events in sequential order on a time line, and use a flow chart to organize their thoughts for writing in this interactive SMART whiteboard activity.
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Smart: Moon Phases (Smart Created)
Learn the names of the phases of the moon including the terms waxing and waning.
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Smart: Life Cycle of a Frog
A slide depicting the different stages of frog development organized as a life cycle. It includes descriptions on pull tabs offscreen.
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Smart: Life Cycle of a Butterfly
Students learn about the life cycle of a butterfly and put the stages of a butterfly's life cycle in order in this SMART whiteboard activity.
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Smart: Tall Tales, Folk Tales, and Fables Review
This is a review of 3 stories, then placing the attributes with the correct genre. Although others may not read the exact story, you could just replace the picture with another picture that represents the story you read.
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Smart: Dice and Card Math Games
Kids love dice and playing with decks of cards. Leverage these two great (and inexpensive tools) to help students work on math facts, place value and more.
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Smart: Sampling and Misleading Graphs
Teachers can use Smart Exchange to download a SMART Notebook lesson covering the topic of sampling and misleading graphs.
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Smart: Wants and Needs
Use the SMART Table activity to identify the difference between a want and a need.
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Smart: The Interactive Educator Online Magazine [Pdf]
An excellent and thorough online magazine for educators, highlighting particularly the technological tools needed to help students be successful. Includes information about building online learning communities, the pros and cons of...
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Smart: Causes of the Revolutionary War
Highlighting the domino effects that led to the American Revolution, this interactive SMART lesson uses videos, games, and other facts to help students learn about the war.
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Smart: Making Inference
Students will understand the term "inference," practice making inferences using short paragraphs, and organize ideas using a graphic organizer in this SMART whiteboard activity.
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Smart: Main Idea and Details
The interactive lesson is a review of main idea and supporting details.
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Smart: Developing Characters and Settings
In this activity provided by SMART, students will give reasons why they feel characters are important in a story. Students will explore how to create effective characters and settings in their own writing by using a character web.
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Smart: Making Inferences
Inferencing is finding clues and using background knowledge to determine an explanation from facts in a passage or story. It's "reading between the lines" of a story to understand what the author doesn't state.
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Smart: Identifying Main Ideas & Details
This lesson operates on the Scaffold Instructional of Release model (I do, we do, you do). Students will use the main idea and supporting details to expand understanding of a variety of texts.