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.

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

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

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

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

A complete middle school Texas State History course accessible in one location. It contains links to a variety of student resources and student assignments.

Interactive, student-paced lessons on such literacy skills as categorizing, comparing and contrasting, summarizing, evaluating, determining cause and effect, using text features, connecting, inferring, sequencing, understanding problems...

Five exemplary chemistry lessons about the three states of matter complete with handouts and animations.

Five chemistry lessons about phase changes between the states of mattter complete with handouts and animations.

Six interactive chemistry lessons about density complete with handouts and animations.

Students determine whether an object will sink or float by comparing its density to the density of water.

Nine exemplary chemistry lessons about the water molecule and dissolving complete with handouts and animations.

Twelve interactive chemistry lessons about chemical changes complete with handouts and animations.

Students see a demonstration of a color change using universal pH indicator and then change the concentrations of an acid and a base using a universal indicator to test the pH of the resulting solutions. Through an animation, they see...

Students will use citric acid and sodium carbonate solutions to see that adding a base to an acidic solution makes the solution less acidic. Students will then use a base to help them identify which of two acidic solutions is more...

Students explain that carbon dioxide from any source reacts chemically with water to form carbonic acid. They will also be able to use the color changes of universal indicator to monitor the changing pH of a solution during a chemical...

A great resource from the Office of Science Education which provides a curriculum for teaching about the musculoskeletal system, the skin system and how they interact. This curriculum emphasizes choices teens can make to ensure good...

After observing a demonstration of a chemical reaction between a burning candle and the oxygen in the air, students use atom model cut-outs to model the reaction and see that all the atoms in the reactants show up in the products.

Students observe, describe, and draw a model on the molecular level, showing how energy is transferred from one substance to another through conduction.

Students draw and interpret Lewis dot diagrams for individual atoms and both covalent and ionic compounds.

Investigate why a charged object is attracted or repelled by another charged object. Explore the concept that the attraction between positive protons and negative electrons holds an atom together.

Students observe and describe, on the molecular level, how heating and cooling affect the motion of molecules in a solid.

Students observe, on a molecular level, how heating and cooling affect molecular motion.