Scholars with high levels of self-efficacy perform better in school. Instructors review a list of strategies for enhancing self-efficacy skills. They discover how to teach learners to appropriately define success, celebrate progress, and...

What are the benefits of developing social awareness? Using the resource, readers learn strategies for fostering civil discourse, creating a participatory classroom, and enhancing family involvement. Scholars also take a personality...

Help your students develop a growth mindset with a list of sample strategies for prioritizing efforts instead of results.Pupils learn how to embrace mistakes, set high expectations, and focus on process over product.

This document was developed to help middle school parents and other family members understand the essential components of RTI (screening, progress monitoring, multi-level prevention system, and data-based decision making), ask questions...

This resource provides guidance for middle schools implementing RTI by answering frequently asked questions and providing snapshots of current middle school practices around the essential components of RTI.

Planning, developing, implementing, and sustaining organizational change, such as RTI, in middle schools is a complex endeavor. This brief is designed to give guidance to practitioners at the school, district, and state levels based on...

Using descriptive information gathered from middle schools already implementing RTI, this resource provides information to school, district, and state administrators and staff about how the essential components of RTI might be...

This PDF brief addresses frequently asked questions (FAQs) about creating a workable schedule for faculty, staff, and students when establishing RTI. The document was designed to help guide practitioners during RTI implementation as they...

Restoring Ea is a place-based middle school science unit exploring management strategies that could be used for the Loko ea fishpond to sustainably feed people and ensure the ecosystem is healthy and pono (balanced). While specifically...

James Madison University has developed a variety of online economic lessons for middle school students. Explore basic economic and financial concepts.

BSCS Middle School Science is a standards and inquiry-based program comprised of four units: Earth/Space Science, Life Science, Physical Science, and Science and Society. The curriculum is available free online for teachers.

Art lessons for middle school students. They are sorted into categories of grades, lessons that can be adapted, medium used, subject matter, art period, artist, and cross-curricular connections.

This resource provides a middle school curriculum on the topic of estuaries. Includes a PDF (requires Adobe Reader).

The Estuaries 101 Middle School Curriculum is a multimedia curriculum focused on the theme "Estuaries & You." It includes a series of online activities for middle school students that highlight our nation's living laboratories, all...

Lesson ideas for the substitute teacher for middle school and secondary art instruction.

Created by students at Sleepy Hollow Middle School, this page provides biographical information and pictures of Washington Irving, his works, and contemporary photos of his home, Sunnyside.

Six middle school chemistry lessons about the periodic table and bonding complete with handouts and animations.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A complete, web-based, multi-media textbook covering a wide variety of Earth science concepts for middle grades.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A complete, web-based, multi-media textbook covering a wide variety of Biological science concepts for middle grades.

The Math Forum provides a collection of middle school math lesson plans. Search capability is offered at the bottom of the page.

Find engaging media and integrated activities, all aligned with the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics. Designed using a culturally and historically responsive approach to engage diverse middle school students through grounding...

This is a great three-page printable resource to help middle school students write a report on a biography. Touches on six questions to derive at elements of the biography. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]

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...

A website that contains resources for science teachers in middle school and elementary school. Resources are online resources as well as book suggestions.