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How To Make the Transition to Middle School Easier
How schools, teachers, and parents can help pupils make the big change from elementary to middle school.
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Welcome To Middle School Video
Students create questions to pose to adults working in Middle School. In groups, students create a video interviewing the Middle School staff. They edit the video and format present it as an introduction to Middle School for perspective...
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Middle School Here I Come!
Fifth graders engage in a instructional activity that is concerned with the transition to middle school with the help of the school counselor. They are taught about the requirements of changing to different classes throughout the day and...
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The Learning Network: The First Middle School Chess Champs
Introduce some nonfiction reading into your classroom! This resource contains seven comprehension questions pertaining to an article from The New York Times website about the first middle schoolers to ever win the United States Chess...
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Sidewalks to Success in Middle School
Students write a brochure that educates incoming middle school students on how to succeed.
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What's in a Logo?
Learners explore computers. They manipulate tools within a "draw" or "paint" program. Students correctly compose an advertisement for an imaginary product. They compose an advertisement for an imaginary product.
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Roll The Tape!
Students create a video explaining what younger students can expect when they come to the middle school. They create a script to go along with the video. They show the video to the fifth graders.
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Effective Parent/Student/Teacher Communication
Sixth graders engage in a instructional activity which address the concerns and issues around new 6th grade students arriving at middle school. They, parents and teachers use this strategy to effectuate good communication.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor: North Carolina: Student Science Enrichment Program
The provides creative science enrichment activities for students in the 6th through 12th grades. It also provides lesson plans and resources for teachers and a special section on "Wildlife of the Alligator River" that features stories,...
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Wisconsin State Reading Association (Wsra)
Learn about the goals, membership, publications, and committees of this affiliate of the International Reading Association. Links also take you to useful reading resources and to its hotline, which allows members to be a part of an...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Effective Reading Programs Grades 6 12: A Best Evidence Synthesis
Many reading programs claim to boost student performance, but how is that measured? Johns Hopkins University examined more than 200 published studies to create this quick guide to programs.
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Ad lit.org: Solution Shop: A Counseling and Study Skills Program for Middle School
Solution Shop is a counseling and study skills program designed to address the academic needs of struggling middle school students. In this program, the school counselor serves the critical role of developing and providing appropriate...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Stuck in the Middle: Strategies to Engage Middle Level Learners
Learn about three strategies that can help create a meaningful curriculum to engage middle-level learners. The strategies draw from effective classroom practices across grade levels, as well as from research about the social, emotional,...
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Spotsylvania County Schools: Curriculum Maps
This site features an outline of how to implement the use of curriculum maps into a school district curriculum program.
University of Florida
University of Florida: Conflict Resolution
This site presents findings of a study of the use of conflict resolution and peer mediation in middle schools. Only samples of the training and classroom materials are available.
NC State University
Meridian: Getting a Grip on Project Based Learning
This resource looks at project-based learning. Students and teachers will benefit from some of the basic information presented in this article concerning the different aspects of project-based learning.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Novels for Growing Readers
Come and check out this informative resource featuring novels for growing readers. This site lists several appropriate books for students ranging from grades three through six.
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Association for Middle Level Education
AMLE serves as a voice for professionals, parents, and others interested in the educational and developmental needs of young adolescents (youth 10-15 years of age). NMSA is the only national educational association exclusively devoted to...