Middle school lessons

30 social-emotional learning strategies for middle school kids to boost confidence and strengthen SEL skills students need for success.

As students head back to school, ELA teachers everywhere are considering how they are going to begin the school year, so I wanted to walk you through one of my favorite lesson plans entitled, “Why do we read?” As an educator, there are few things as exciting and rewarding as introducing a young person to […]

Finding engaging TED Talks for middle school students is important task in inspiring and motivating your students. Find them right here!

This single classroom procedure has made a HUGE difference in my experience teaching middle school. My first year teaching I didn't do this and I knew that something needed to change. I decided to put into a place a daily bellringer for every one of my classes. I am a Family Consumer Sciences teacher so I teacher 4 different classes!You can call it whatever you want to call it but I call it a bell ringer because my students are expected to be doing it as soon as the bell rings to start…

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) has been found to promote academic success and increase students' commitment to school. Generally, there are five key components that make up social emotional learning. These competencies include self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and decision making. Today, I'd like to focus on ways to help students develop self-awareness. Self-awareness includes one's ability to recognize emotions, have an accurate self-perception…

Use these Six Minutes podcast lessons and follow up activities to plan engaging and fun lesson plans for your middle school ELA students.

Ideas for making halloween spooktacular in your middle school science classroom! You either love halloween or hate it when you teach middle school science. I’ve decided to embrace it over the years and I am going to share some of my easy to implement, classroom-tested, middle school halloween lesson ideas, activities and costumes! There are […]

Why should you use fun writing prompts for middle school? Learning how to write in middle school is essential for helping kids learn and perfect their

5 fall activities for the upper elementary & middle school classrooms. From writing units to picture books, fall awakens a love of learning.

When I was in middle school, I had many teachers who killed this subject for me. But it can be truly engaging and fun! Some ideas: ➡️Interactive slideshow lessons ➡️Incorporating music into your lessons ➡️Center activities ➡️Boom™ cards Want to know more? Read my blog post, "Engage Your Students: Fun Social Studies Activities for Middle School".