Middle school student

Bring collaboration and competition to your classroom by putting your students to the task of completing challenges to unlock puzzles!

There are three things every teacher should do before taking their students to the computer lab to research information for their research papers: teach the difference between reliable and unreliable sources, check to make sure every student has a self-generated research question, and help prepare students with key phrases and words to search. Whenever I begin teaching the research paper, I always share with my students the story of how I wrote my Master's thesis paper. It was a 50 page…

One of the most stressful and time-consuming things I had to deal with my first few years of teaching was how to handle student absences!

Description Looking for a way to get to know your students and build relationships in the classroom? Start the year off great with this set of student surveys for your middle and high school students! This is by far my favorite back to school activity. Your students will love filling it out and you get great insight into their lives. Includes 16 black and white surveys to print and 16 Google Slides with color to use digitally (for a total of 32 survey options). Within the 16 there are 8 with…

Four Corners "Get to Know You" warm-up activity is a great way to get students out of their seats, pondering questions and sharing their thinking with classmates in small groups. It's also a wonderful tool for building classroom community. This game has 30 differentiated slides and extension questions. Designed for beginning and intermediate middle school English learners, but perfect for any class. Watch your students build their English listening, reading and speaking skills!

See and use these argumentative essay topics for middle school to teach the process of delivering well-researched, evidence-based arguments to their peers.

(Continued from Take a Peek Inside The Mind of a Middle Schooler: Part 1) In our first installment we shared three mind-blowing facts, this image about how middle schoolers learn (see below), and s…

Journal writing is a fabulous way to reinforce your child's middle school writing practice. It is creative, versatile and easy to implement into lesson plans!

Student choice is a cornerstone of student engagement. When students can take charge of their learning and can pursue topics of interest, they will be more engaged and more inclined to do the work, and their work will become more meaningful. This blog post explores different ways to integrate studen

These 40+ free STEM websites: science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are for grades 6-12; middle school and high school. Hands on science