Lessons for Middle School

This is a culminating project students will create to display their level of understanding in regards to Area and Circumference of Circles. This project is aligned to the Common Core Math Standards and is a great way to incorporate math standards to real life problems. Students will use their knowledge of area and circumference of circles to: Compare the cost of food using unit rates and areaCreate a menu for their own pizza parlor Develop different coupons/advertisements to convey their p

Start the Year Prepared — Teach with ConfidenceGet your entire 7th grade math year planned with this comprehensive, no-prep curriculum bundle aligned to Common Core State Standards (CCSS). With 2,300+ pages of lessons, activities, and assessments, you’ll have everything you need to teach, remediate, review, and enrich — without the stress of last-minute planning. Try Before You Buy — Free $25 Unit Included! We’ve included a full Probability Unit as a free preview so you can see the format,

This product is a collection of 14 Minecraft Challenges we have used with our students to build 21 century skills and promote collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking as well as have a ton of fun utilizing Minecraft. Students respond well to these Minecraft Challenges because they provide strong guidelines and enough constraints that actually allow for students to be creative and use their imagination. Minecraft Challenges These 14 challenges can be modified or adjusted

This Podcast Unit is targeted for Middle School students and provides the background context and structure for teachers to implement a Podcast Project in their classroom. Why should I use podcasts in my classroom? -It gives students a potential audience (either thousands or just a classroom of students) depending on how you have students share these out. -It's great for developing literacy skills (writing scripts, organizing thoughts, maid idea and details, setting up interviews etc), allows

This is a COMPREHENSIVE unit for teaching students all of the 8th Grade Geometry COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS associated with Dilations, Translations, Reflections, and Rotations. ABSOLUTELY NO PREP REQUIRED, just download and start teaching in minutes. This lesson is part of our Geometry Bundle for 8th grade that includes 9 weeks of lessons. 8th Grade Math - Reflections, Translations, and Rotations Geometry Unit LESSONS INCLUDED➯2 Lessons on Translations ➯4 Lessons on Reflections ➯6 Lesso

Start the Year Prepared — Teach with ConfidenceGet your entire 6th grade math year planned with this comprehensive, no-prep curriculum bundle aligned to Common Core State Standards (CCSS). With 2,000+ pages of lessons, activities, and assessments, you’ll have everything you need to teach, remediate, review, and enrich — without the stress of last-minute planning. Try Before You Buy — Free $25 Unit Included!We’ve included a full 7th Grade Probability Unit as a free preview so you can see th

This COMPREHENSIVE Geometry Unit was created for easy and quick implementation into the math classroom for a teacher. We have been teaching these math standards for the past couple of years and have compiled the lessons that we have found to be meaningful and successful in the classroom. ABSOLUTELY NO PREP REQUIRED, just download and start teaching in minutes!Included in this product:➯35 Individual Lessons ➯Area and Perimeter of Polygons ➯Area of Polygons Project ➯Coordinate Geometry ➯Surfa

This is a comprehensive and complete unit for teaching about the Area and Perimeter of Rectangles, Triangles, and other Polygons for grades 5 through 7 for approximately 3 weeks. ABSOLUTELY NO PREP REQUIRED, just download and start teaching in minutes. Included in the Area and Perimeter of Polygons Unit:Aligned to Common Core Math StandardsDetailed Daily Lesson PlansDo Now/Warm UpsIndependent Practice ActivitiesCooperative Learning ActivitiesFormative Assessments12 Power Point Presentations

This is a 6 week comprehensive Project Based Learning Unit that focuses on students redesigning the traditional Cereal Box. Students will use the Engineering Design Process as well as learn the background mathematical concepts to create a newer version of a Cereal Container that decreases the Surface Area of materials while simultaneously increasing the total Volume. This unit targets 6th grade, but can be modified to meet standards for 5th and 7th grade. NO PREP REQUIRED, just download and

Bundle DescriptionThis COMPREHENSIVE Geometry Unit was created for easy and quick implementation into the classroom for a teacher that covers the 8th Grade Geometry Standards aligned with Common Core Math. We have been teaching these standards for the past couple of years and have compiled the lessons that we have found to be meaningful and successful in the classroom. ABSOLUTELY NO PREP REQUIRED, just download and start teaching in minutesINCLUDED IN THIS PROJECT➯30 Individual Lessons ➯Transf

This is a bundle of our 2 units that focus on bringing Genius Hour to your classroom: 1. Genius Hour Foundations 2. Genius Hour Part 2 ***************************************************************************** Genius Hour – Bundle of Lessons The concept of personalized learning and passion driven education has been growing in many educational systems around the nation. The overall concept has been developed off of the Genius Hour model proposed by Google. Students are given the opportuni

This College and Career Unit guides students through 10 individual lessons where they will explore and research possible careers and college opportunities that exist. Students will learn the necessary life skills of comparing college prices, determining future salary, and will compare and contrast the future job growth of different industries and professions to make informed decisions about their life path. These are 21st Century skills and understandings students will need to have and know

6th Grade Math- Ratios, Rates, Tables, and GraphsStudents will be instructed on the main vocabulary terms in the lesson RatioQuantityRateUnit RateEquivalent RatiosStudents will work through examples and practice problems to learn how to use equivalent ratios and ratio tables to solve problems and make predictions. Model situations mathematically with ratiosCreate tables from ratios using equivalent ratiosUse equivalent ratios to find missing values in the tablesDisplay this information by plotti

8th Grade Math - Applying Properties of Integer ExponentsThis is a COMPREHENSIVE unit for teaching students the related 8th Grade COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS. ABSOLUTELY NO PREP REQUIRED, just download and start teaching in minutes. Students will review key ideas and vocabulary such as: PowersExponentsBasesStudents will then look at a different patterns of powers to begin to be able to make predictions and look for generalized rules on how powers behave. Students will then learn and review

This unit covers all of the 7th Grade Common Core Math Standards associated with Probability. This COMPREHENSIVE bundle has 13 Lessons with 429 Pages. ABSOLUTELY NO PREP REQUIRED, just download and start teaching in minutes. This unit is part of our 7th Grade Year Long Curriculum. INCLUDED WITH EACH LESSON➯Lesson Plan ➯Power Point Presentation ➯Warm Up Activity ➯Guided Note ➯Cooperative Learning Structure ➯Independent Practice ➯Exit Slip ➯Answer Sheets included ***************************

This is a collection of 4 Lessons with accompanying activities and practice worksheets to teach students the concepts of Reflections in the 8th Grade Common Core Math Standards with a focus on Geometry Teaching Geometric Transformations including Translation can be quite a struggle in the 8th Grade Common Core because the fluidity of the standards seem strained. Therefore, we have developed a complete unit on Transformations along with a subset of individual mini-units that target Reflections,

This lesson teaches students how to determine the population and sample in a given survey according to the 7th Grade Common Core Math Standards. Students will be given methods for attaining information from a population and they must determine whether the sample is truly a random sample or a biased sample. Students will also examine the types of questions asked in surveys and determine whether or not they are fair or biased questions. ABSOLUTELY NO PREP REQUIRED, just download and start tea

Ratios and Proportions - Graphing Proportional Relationships This lesson teaches students how to determine whether two quantities are in a proportional relationship by using graphs based on the 7th Grade Common Core Math Standards. This lesson begins by reviewing some big ideas and terminology: ProportionRate of ChangeProportional RelationshipsThe Constant of ProportionalityStudents will then look at data tables to find the constant of proportionality between the quantities if one exists, w

This bundle of lessons provides teachers the resources to develop a Genius Hour Program in their classrooms or at their schools. We made many mistakes in our implementation so we developed these lessons to help others be successful and not have to suffer through the same mistakes we made. ***************************************************************************** The concept of personalized learning and passion driven education has been growing in many educational systems around the nation

This 6th grade math lesson focuses on asking Statistical vs Non-Statistical Questions. This lesson provides instruction and learning opportunities where students evaluate whether statements can be tested using statistics. Math CCSS 6.SP.1 is the focus - Recognize a statistical question as one that anticipates variability in the data related to the question and accounts for it in the answers. For example, “How old am I?” is not a statistical question, but “How old are the students in my schoo