Make the most of those weeks between the holiday breaks by bringing cross-curricular activities to your middle school science classroom. … More Bring wonder and engagement back to your classroom before the winter holidays with cross-curricular activities
Learn three strategies for adding social-emotional learning (SEL) to any middle school content area with this blog post from Crosswalk Curriculum. … More Three Strategies to Power Up Learning in Any Content Area by Adding Social Emotional Learning to Your Lessons
Teachers, improve your tech skills with this blog post that gives step-by-step instructions for editing Google Slide decks to create cross-curricular lesson slideshows. … More Teaching an Old Teacher New Tricks: How to Use Slide Templates to Create & Pace Student-Centered Lesson Plans
Use discussion in your middle school science classroom to catalyze learning about solstices and equinoxes. … More Science Teacher Tips: How to Use Earth Science Misconceptions to Ignite Student Discussions during Equinoxes and Solstices
The best gift for the first day of spring is a sunny day! After receiving enough snow for a district-wide snow day last week, the first day of spring sprung with sunshine the whole day. And while I might have been thrilled to emerge from my winter hibernation, I also ended up with a bit … More Using Seasonal Changes as a “Spring”-Board for Student Learning During Your Earth Science Unit
This infographic shows the basics of teaching a cross-curricularl lesson set in the middle school classroom. … More Tiny Teaching Tips: Ways to Integrate Other Teaching Subjects into Your Lessons for Improved Student Understanding
Some science standards are so boring that after reading them three or four times, the purpose of the standard loses its meaning. Recently I was looking over the Next Gen Science Standards (NGSS) for Matter and Its Interactions and encountered a standard about synthetic materials. Most units that cover this standard for middle school include … More Intersecting Learning Standards: The Power of adding Social Studies Concepts to Science Lessons
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