Using a Smart Board, you can teach your class the various units of measurement that will directly apply to the beakers and test tubes used in science class. Your measurement instructional lesson will go through each unit of measurement, complete with images of the beakers and items they correspond to. Have your students take notes as you go through the lesson. From here, select two kids to go up to the Smart Board and answer questions based on milliliters, liters and other units of measurement.
Before moving directly into course material, a basic Smart Board lesson on the Scientific Method will help your students understand the types of rigorous tests and methods that have been adopted by the scientific community. The lesson can begin with a concise definition of the Scientific Method and its goal of collecting objective and verifiable data. From here, showcase a variety of experiments properly using the Scientific Method versus individuals who merely use guesswork and hearsay to make their assertions. Once the method has been described, have your students develop their own hypothesis, writing them on the Smart Board one at a time.
A basic, sound energy lesson plan is designed to help teach students how vibrations generate sound and pitch. Using the speaker plug on your laptop, you can synchronize sound with the visual portion of your Smart Board lesson plan, allowing your students to actually see how pitch corresponds to specific visual waveforms. In the lesson, you can also explain how volume levels increase as wave forms grow larger. Students can also bring their own music in to class, giving you real-life examples of pitch and sonic energy.
You can program your Smart Board to reveal questions and categories pertaining to sound and matter. In the lesson, give the questions in each category a point value from 100 to 800 points, making the hardest questions worth the most points. Categories will depend on your students' knowledge, but they can include to questions on matter, particles, elements and any other topic you plan on covering in your course work. You can break up students into groups or have them compete individually against each other.