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Resources 6-8
Middle School Natural Selection: Lesson Plans
Lesson plans to teach Natural Selection.
Middle School Earth Space Science: Energy Resources Lesson Plans
A lesson set covering energy, renewable and nonrenewable energy sources.
Middle School Forces: Scrambler Car
Lesson plans to teach Newton's laws using the Scrambler Car.
NASA’s BEST Students: Grades 6-8
Grade 6-8 learners will be guided through a series of challenges that follow the engineering design cycle.
Insights Into Algebra 1: Teaching for Learning
This video workshop for middle and high school teachers presents strategies for improving how typical Algebra 1 topics are taught.
Write in the Middle: A Workshop for Middle School Teachers
Learn effective practices and strategies to help students become confident and proficient writers.
Making Meaning in Literature: A Workshop for Teachers, Grades 6-8
Learn techniques for helping students become engaged and enthusiastic readers in this video workshop for middle school teachers.
Making Meaning in Literature: A Video Library, Grades 6-8
This video library for grade 6-8 language arts teachers shows teaching practices that support student interaction with literature.
Amusement Park Physics Interactive
How do physics laws affect amusement park ride design? You'll have a chance to find out by designing your own roller coaster.
In Search of the Novel
Find strategies for introducing and teaching ten commonly taught novels - from Frankenstein to Harry Potter.
Conversations in Literature
Learn about "envisionment building" as a tool for literary interpretation with a community of expert readers.
U.S. History Map Interactive
With a map as your guide, trace the growth and settlement of the United States.
Rock Cycle Interactive
Learn how to distinguish between types of rocks and discover how rocks change over time.
Geometry 3-D Shapes Interactive
Learn about three-dimensional shapes, how to calculate their surface area and volume as well as their mathematical properties.
Dynamic Earth Interactive
Delve into the structure of the Earth to learn what causes earthquakes, volcanoes, and more.
Spelling Bee Interactive
Listen to three stories, one at a time, and then spell words from each story.
A Private Universe
Discover why even Ivy League graduates don't really grasp basic science concepts in this video documentary for grade 5-12 educators.
K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, College/Adult
Neuroscience & the Classroom: Making Connections
This video course for K-12 educators acquaints teachers with current neuroscience research that they can apply in their own classrooms.
Essential Lens: Analyzing Photographs Across the Curriculum
A multidisciplinary resource for middle and high school teachers to use photographs and photographic ephemera to convey content and teach visual analysis skills.
Ethics in America II
Eminent leaders explore hypothetical ethical dilemmas in this video series for college and high school classrooms and adult leaders.
Learning Math: Patterns, Functions, and Algebra
Explore the big ideas in algebra - patterns, functions, and linearity - in this video- and Web-based course for K-8 teachers.
Learning Math: Number and Operations
This video- and web-based course for K-8 teachers examines three main categories in the Number and Operations strand of the math standards.
Social Studies in Action: A Teaching Practices Library, K-12
This video library for K-12 teachers shows a variety of effective social studies lessons and techniques for use with students at all levels.
Learning Math: Measurement
Examine some of the major ideas in measurement and their practical applications in this video- and web-based course for K-8 teachers.
Learning Math: Geometry
Discover how geometric reasoning can be used as a method of problem solving in this video- and Web-based course for K-8 teachers.
Learning Math: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability
Practical examples highlight the basic concepts of data analysis and statistics in this video- and web-based course for K-8 math teachers.
Teaching Foreign Languages K-12: Workshop
This video workshop introduces middle school teachers to diverse American writers and presents dynamic instructional strategies.
Teaching Foreign Languages K-12: A Library of Classroom Practices
This video library illustrates effective instruction and assessment strategies for the teaching of foreign languages in grades K-12.
Teaching Multicultural Literature: A Workshop for the Middle Grades
This video workshop introduces middle school teachers to diverse American writers and presents dynamic instructional strategies.
Connecting With the Arts: A Workshop for Middle Grades Teachers
Middle school teachers discover how to integrate the arts - dance and music - with core academic subjects in this video workshop.
Connecting with the Arts: A Teaching Practices Library, 6-8
This video library features a variety of approaches to integrating the arts in middle school classrooms nationwide.
Reading & Writing in the Disciplines
Learn research, practice, and tools for integrating discipline literacy into mathematics, science, English, and history/social studies content based lessons.
