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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Middle School Teacher's Place

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The Math Forum provides a collection of middle school math lesson plans. Search capability is offered at the bottom of the page.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Write in the Middle: Workshop 3: Teaching Poetry

For Teachers 5th - 8th
In Workshop 3, we see two master teachers - Vivian Johnson, who teaches eighth grade in Elizabethton, Tennessee, and Jack Wilde, a fifth-grade teacher from Hanover, New Hampshire - help their students develop as readers and writers of...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Postmodern Picture Books

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Using "Black and White" by David Macaulay, this lesson plan demonstrates the use of picture books as learning tools in middle school. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Write in the Middle: #7: Responding to Writing: Peer to Peer

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Peer response helps students learn how to give constructive feedback to others, an important life skill. "Responding to Writing: Peer to Peer" visits the classrooms of three teachers-fifth-grade teacher Jack Wilde, seventh-grade teacher...
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Lesson Plans on Writing a Script

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site offers lesson plans and activities to help teach middle and high school students to write scripts including character development activities, and script ideas.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: The Great Continental Drift Mystery

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A unit on plate tectonics designed for middle school students, this page must be read carefully to find the activities to be done in the class, but it provides a wealth of background for the teacher as well.
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Duke: Center for Inquiry Based Learning

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Duke University has established the Center for Inquiry-Based Learning. It serves to enhance math and science lessons. Click on Resources for good examples of Inquiry-based lesson plans.
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University of Michigan

University of Michigan: Climate Change and Michigan Forests

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A comprehensive 10-lesson unit on how climate change affects the forests of Michigan. Covers many of the NGSS life science standards for middle school. Includes teacher's guide, PowerPoints, video links, student handouts, standards...
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Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Qualitative & Quantitative Information: Tree Destroying Bugs

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this science-themed literacy lesson, middle school students read about an exotic bug and integrate qualitative and quantitative information through close reading and viewing of diagrams.
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BSCS Science Learning

Bscs: Invitations to Inquiry With Data Using Field Scope

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Invitations to Inquiry are short instructional activities designed to help middle and high school students work with large data sets. Teachers and students use the interactive FieldScope platform to collect, visualize, and analyze...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 11.14 Vitamins and Minerals

For Students 5th - 9th
Find out about some of the vitamins that humans need in their bodies.

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