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This is a fun middle school math project on statistics where students get to conduct a non-biased survey of their choice, collect data, and analyze the results. Included are student instructions, a grading checklist rubric, a student project planning sheet, and three student samples! The requirements for this project were creating a non-biased survey question and method; calculation of the mean, median, mode, and range; statement of the minimum and maximum values; tally/frequency chart; dot plot

This fun and engaging project is a perfect addition to your unit on the Periodic Table of Elements! It requires students to create a Wanted Poster for an element of their choosing. Students will research properties of the element, such as atomic number, mass, symbol, state, color, taste, odor, melting/boiling point, uses, discovery, and elements it reacts with, and use the information to make a Wanted Poster! My students loved this project and I was so impressed with their creativity! This is

This engaging introductory lesson to the Scientific Method includes a PowerPoint presentation and Guided Notes for students to follow along with the PowerPoint. There are practice problems scattered throughout and all answers are directly in the PowerPoint! This resource will engage and benefit all students in your classroom! For more practice with identifying independent and dependent variables, check out this worksheet: Differentiated Worksheets on Independent and Dependent Variables

This product contains two worksheets on identifying independent and dependent variables. The first worksheet is a basic identifying worksheet and the second worksheet contains higher-order thinking questions to provide students with an additional challenge. This is great for in-class practice or as homework. Answer Keys for both worksheets are included!

This is an editable project created for a religious education class learning about theological virtues and cardinal virtues. The instructions, student samples, worksheet, and rubric are included! Part 1 of the project requires students to individually reflect on the personal characteristics/virtues they feel they need in order to be the best person they can be. Each student will reflect on this question by listing their top seven virtues and giving an explanation for each one on the sheet prov

This is a fun middle school math project where students will use area and perimeter concepts to build their dream home! Students of all levels will enjoy this fun and engaging real-world project. This editable project includes a rubric with the following 6 parts: Part 1: Exterior Design - Just for fun, students will draw or insert an image of the exterior of their dream home to help "hook" them into the project. Part 2: Floor Plan - Students will map out a floor plan for the rooms in their hou

This is a perfect addition to your Extreme and Severe Weather Unit! Students will be so engaged when they get to research and create a presentation on a past Hurricane, such as Katrina, Harvey, Irma, Maria, Mathew, Sandy, or Florence. The instructions, as well as three Student Sample Presentations, are included!

This resource is a perfect addition to your plate tectonics or landforms unit! Included is a PowerPoint with Student Guided Notes that follow along on the topic of Volcanoes. Interesting fun facts, YouTube video links, images, and infamous volcanic eruptions from history are embedded throughout the engaging PowerPoint! * This product is part of my Volcano Bundle! Check it out here! *

This fun and engaging project is a perfect addition to your unit on planets! It requires students to create a presentation persuading people to travel to a planet of their choosing. Students will research and become experts on their planet as they learn about the size, distance, moons, its discovery, physical features, weather, and more. They also get to use their creativity and imagination as they come up with things that travelers could do for fun on the planet and what they would need to pac

This is a great introductory forensics lesson on Fingerprinting! This product contains a PowerPoint presentation on the types of fingerprints (loops, whorls, arches) with student guided notes that follow along with the PowerPoint. There are five questions at the end for students to practice identifying fingerprints on their own.

My middle school students loved this project where they got to use their creativity and create math board games! There is flexibility to assign your students any math topic and to choose the number of students working on each game (I used integer and rational number operations and I had students work with partners.) This is a great assessment project to do at the end of a unit or at the end of the year as a review. For some added fun I set up all of the board games around my classroom and let

This factoring and distributive property matching column worksheet is a great way to get students to see their inverse relationship. The two matching columns use the same expressions so students can easily practice going back and forth between factoring an expression and using the distributive property to simplify an expression. Answer Key Included!

This full lesson is a perfect way to introduce and teach the concept of calculating area of composite figures. This product includes a Do Now of finding area of a rectangle and square, brief guided notes with scaffolded practice, and practice problems. This product is editable and a full answer key is included! Once your students have mastered these composite figure problems, move on to area of nets with these two other great products:Area of 3D Nets (Cubes and Rectangular Prisms)Area of Triang

You will be amazed at how creative your students get with this engaging project! Students are told that they are environmental engineers and their first job is to design a city that is environmentally clean and friendly. They have to come up with a name and location for their city, ways to power their city using alternative energy sources, laws to keep it pollution-free, and proactive measures to ensure the town remains eco-friendly! Their final product is a PowerPoint presentation detailing

This is a fun and creative social justice project for your students to engage in. It can be used in a variety of grades/subjects and serves the purpose of raising awareness for social justice causes. Students will view examples of Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavors, such as "EmpowerMINT," "Save our Swirled," and "Imagine Whirled Peace". They then create their own ice cream flavor and design a blank ice cream carton focusing on a social cause of their choice. This could be a great activity to u

This product contains an engaging, animated PowerPoint with guided notes for students to fill in as you go through this lesson on Solutions! There is a Do Now, definitions & descriptions, examples, and practice questions with all answers embedded right into the PPT! Topics Covered: - Soluble/Insoluble - Parts of a Solution (Solute/Solvent) - Concentration - Types of Solutions (Unsaturated, Saturated, Supersaturated)

This is a full lesson on using nets to find the surface area of 3D shapes (cubes and rectangular prisms). Included:- Do Now (three questions to recall prior knowledge on finding the area of a square and rectangle) - Printable nets of a cube and rectangular prism for students to cut out, fold, and think about - Guided Examples - Four Differentiated Practice Problem Worksheets - Two Differentiated Exit Tickets *A full answer key is included! Check out these other great products for your unit:Surfa

Give your students valuable practice in making change using the fewest bills and coins, while keeping them actively engaged and moving in this stations activity!  Students will rotate through 3 stations, featuring task cards on making change with the fewest bills and coins possible. ✨ What’s Included: Station 1: Making Change with Bills (4 task cards)Station 2: Making Change with Coins (4 task cards)Station 3: Shopping Scenarios Analyzing Receipts (2 task cards)Student Recording SheetAnswer Key

This puzzle activity is a fun and engaging way for your students to practice their angle vocabulary. Four puzzles are included with four pieces each. Students will match the term, definition, image, and real-world example for the following terms: acute, obtuse, right, straight. I recommend printing, laminating, and cutting this out for your students to piece back together. Enjoy!!

This Volcano Bundle includes the following products: PowerPoint & Guided NotesVocabulary Matching Cards & QuizWebquestProjectThese resources are the perfect way to introduce, teach, practice, and assess your students on Volcanoes in an engaging, fun, and effective way! All answer keys/rubrics are included!