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

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

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.

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.

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...

A collection of middle school English and Language Arts lessons that utilize the Universal Design for Learning Instructional Units.

This collection of five middle school math lessons covers the topic of plane geometry, specifically the concept of slope. The first lesson introduces students to plotting points on a Cartesian grid using a Geoboard. Lesson two moves them...

Students will explore the dangers gangs pose to themselves and their school communities in this WebQuest. Students will research youth gangs and create media campaigns for middle school students to persuade them to stay out of gangs.

When their friend Dune goes missing, Raedawn and Vince launch a search for him, eventually finding him at a mountain grow-op. The novel Middle Row by Sylvia Olsen also deals with racial barriers at school. This teacher's guide includes a...

A workshop, appropriate for elementary, middle school, and high school students, through which participants examine a variety of primary documents and their relationship to the U.S. Constitution. This resource provides workshop...

This site contains a unit on budgeting money for use by middle school teachers. Includes enrichment problems, a bibliography, and many example problems and situations.

An inquiry-based science unit for middle school students centered on the world's energy sources. The lessons integrate technology and lab activities while teaching about energy sources, production, and consumption.

A middle school experiment on the cell structure of cyanobacteria.

In this lesson and its associated activity, middle schoolers conduct a simple test to determine how many drops of each of three liquids can be placed on a penny before spilling over. The three liquids are water, rubbing alcohol, and...

This page contains an extensive collection of links to pdf versions of lessons and handouts needed to teach the Citizens, Not Spectators curriculum. Has lessons for upper elementary, middle school, and secondary.

This unit on metabolic reactions in the human body starts out with students exploring a real case study of a middle-school girl named M'Kenna, who reported some alarming symptoms to her doctor.

In this lesson plan site, students will learn how to use a metric ruler to measure length, accurately read and record measurements taken in centimeters and millimeters, and collect and analyze data using a stem and leaf.

Students work together in "progressive bowling" to knock down all ten pins. This activity requires students to work together and to practice their rolling technique. Includes ideas for varying this activity and assessing students...

This website consists of several teacher lesson plans centered on Solar Energy. This is includes activities for elementary, middle school, and high school students, targeted standards, and references for future research.