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I used this activity following a lesson on sense of smell. We discussed why smell is important and what kinds of things you can smell, and what kinds of things you cannot sense with smell. I had brought in several things for them to smell and guess what it is they were smelling. This activity lets them cut and paste the pictures and place into a T-Chart either under the nose for "can smell" or the "cannot smell" column. This is a great way to formally assess sense of smell in the primary gra

This lesson is great for a science or social living lesson on classifying animals: distinguishing between farm animals, zoo animals, and pets. The powerpoint opens with a motivating introduction of 3 silhouettes of animals. The students have to guess what they are, the teacher then removes the silhouettes to reveal the animals, and the students must discuss how these three animals are different. The next slide lists the daily objectives. The next slide provides higher order thinking prompts

This social living Promethean flipchart teaches students the life cycle of pumpkins, and incorporates expository writing to describe pumpkins. This flipchart opens with a title page with pumpkins and fall motif. The next page gives a list of objectives for the lesson. The next page allows the teachers to explore the background knowledge of the students for pumpkins and fall. The students may have already learned about fall, so this would be ideal to open a discussion about things that happe

This activity/assessment aligns with your weather lesson. Students are to observe the weather outside and sketch what type of cloud they see in the first space, what weather this cloud would bring in the second space, and what you should wear in this type of weather in the third space. Pictures are shown to help guide the students on how to draw what types of sketches are expected. Answer key is included (example of a cumulus cloud, sunny week - you would apply the appropriate weather to what

This file includes 4 Promethean Flipcharts for Activ Board which cover a 4 Day Fire Safety Unit. You may purchase these flipcharts individually, or as a group. If you purchase them as a group, you get ALL the flipchart lessons at a great value price. Below, I've listed the descriptions of the flipcharts included in this file: Fire Safety Day 1: Tools of the Fire fighters This Promethean Flipchart for Activboards: Tools of the Fire fighters covers Day 1 of a 4 day Fire Safety unit. This les

This Promethean Flipchart explores "Consumer Choices: Needs and Wants" in which students must describe how the individual can make good consumer choices, differentiate between a need and want, and discuss the importance of knowing the difference. The lesson begins with an introduction splitting the page with items on either side, and the students are asked a series of higher order thinking questions, "What is the difference in the items?", "Is one side more important than the other?", etc. Nex

This activity/assessment reinforces the concept of classifying animals: farm, zoo, or pet. Students are given a picture of an animal and must write "F" for farm, "Z" for zoo, or "P" for pet to classify each animal. If you would like a powerpoint lesson to go along with this assessment, check out my product, "Classifying Animals: Zoo, Farm or Pet" for a cute social living lesson.

This 10 slide Promethean Flipchart for Activ Board teaches students the basics of transportation on land. The flipchart opens with a thought-provoking question leading into the discussion of transportation. Next, the flipchart lists the daily objective and onto the vocabulary term: transportation (with definition). The next four slides discusses different forms of transportation on land with interesting facts, and asks students questions about where they should and should not travel using the

This 5 question assessment will check for students' understanding of astrological concepts. This test consists of multiple choice, fill in the blank, and a "connect the dots" to make their own start constellation.

Fire Safety Day 4: Fire fighters This Promethean Flipchart for Activboards: Fire fighters covers Day 4 of a 4 day Fire Safety unit. This lesson focuses on the job of the fire fighters! This is an area many students share an interest. The lesson opens with a KWL chart in which students brainstorm what they already know about fire fighters and what they want to know about fire fighters. Next, a fact sheet is presented in which the teacher presents information about fire fighters. Teachers a

Fire Safety Day 3: Fire Safety This Promethean Flipchart for Activboards: Fire Safety covers Day 3 of a 4 day Fire Safety unit. This lesson expands upon fire safety and prevention. It gives a review from Day 2 on fire safety and prevention. Then students are to complete, as a class, a KWL Chart (What I know, what I want to know, what I learned). Then 2 informational videos are included (if you system permits viewing) of “What is Fire?” and “Fire Prevention”. After viewing of the videos, t

This assessment (answer key included) goes along with a lesson you are teaching about the butterfly life cycle. With this, make sure you have on hand: popcorn seeds (representing the egg stage), penne pasta shells (representing the caterpillar), sea shell pasta shells (representing the chrysalis), and bowtie pasta shells (representing the butterfly). Students are to glue the pasta to this activity to represent their knowledge of the butterfly life cycle. It works great as an informal assessme