Improve content-area vocabulary development in your middle school classroom by using word walls. This blog post gives three tips for making your word wall more interactive. … More Content area reading skills: The power of word walls + 3 ways to make your word walls interactive!
You’re on an epic journey as a cross-curricular teacher! All that lies between your students and academic success is a whole lot of dragons. Win the day (and the year) by using my top five tips for planning effective nonfiction reading and writing lessons for your middle school students. … More Slay all of the Dragons: Top five ways to be a literacy hero for your middle school students
Support your students in growing as learners by using claim, evidence, and reasoning with nonfiction texts! … More Wake your students up to deeper learning with Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning writing
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
Middle school science teachers, learn how about a fun and interactive science lab safety activity for your beginning of school year plans! … More Teacher Tech Tips: Axe the Boring Science Safety Talk and Help your Middle School Students Interact with Science Lab Rules
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
And it’s not even Earth Day. I simply opened my phone and, bam!, there was this old picture of me and the Moeraki Boulders. Make famous by GOT and international Instagrammers, the Moeraki Boulders are just super cool. Signage at the beach says that scientists disagree about how these freakishly spherical rocks were created but … More Teacher Toolbox: How to Use Your Own Adventures to Inspire a Sense of Wonder for Nature in your Science Classroom
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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