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...

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

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...

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.

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 middle schoolers write a report on a biography. Touches on six questions to derive at elements of the biography. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]

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

This document was developed to help 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 about RTI, and...

This video [14:33] shows a demonstration of academic vocabulary instruction through the context of a complex work, a poem. The teacher demonstrates how to access the literal meaning of new vocabulary and then infer the deeper meaning....

This report documents a wide variety of math programs for high school and middle school educators and rates them for their effectiveness in math achievement.

This PDF Practice Guide, released by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) in April 2009, aims to help educators develop and implement Response to Intervention (RTI) to assist students struggling in math. The focus is building an...

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.

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.

This document, released by the Center on Instruction (COI) in 2009, provides a response to the common question "What are states, districts, and schools doing about RTI?" Through site visits and phone calls to five U.S. public schools...

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...

This document, developed by the Tigard-Tualatin School District in Tigard, OR in October 2009, includes information on Effective Behavior and Instructional Support (EBIS) as a structured, systematic process (1) to review school-wide...