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This complete, ready-to-use Buoyancy 5E Lesson helps students understand why objects float, sink, or remain suspended through inquiry, modeling, and real-world application. Designed for middle school science, this resource is fully digital or printable, making it perfect for self-paced learning, substitutes, or interactive classrooms. Students explore buoyancy using visual phenomena, a PhET simulation, leveled reading, and project-based learning, then demonstrate understanding through multi

Celebrate the spookiness of Friday the 13th while getting to know your students' innermost fears with this festive game of "Would you rather?" It includes 13 PowerPoint slides with Canva Pro images under a Canva Pro account. It is appropriate for students eight years and above. Please watch the video preview to see all the slides.

This Atoms Project-Based Choice Board is perfect for grades 6–8. This resource offers 9 creative project options (infographic, skit, video, comic, free choice, model, newscast, meme, and game design) to help students explore the structure of atoms, subatomic particles, and their role as the building blocks of matter. Each project includes: Student-friendly descriptions in 1–2 sentences Step-by-step checklists to guide completion 3 tips for success to encourage quality work and creativity Al

Let students drive their learning using this NGSS-aligned project-based choice board. It includes detailed instructions for eight projects and a free option for advanced creatives. Transform into stations by choosing a handful of your students' favorites of these projects. The time spent on a choice board can range from one class period to a whole week. These choice boards are beneficial when addressing the accommodations needed for high and low-performing students. Students who struggle with tr

Help your middle school students build a strong understanding of MS-PS3-3 with this NGSS-aligned Thermal Energy Transfer Bundle! This resource includes a dynamic Project-Based Learning (PBL) choice board filled with creative, student-driven activities that encourage exploration of thermal energy, heat transfer, conduction, and insulation. Students will also reinforce essential vocabulary through fun, no-prep worksheets including a word search, word scramble, matching activity, crossword puzzl

Looking for a complete, ready-to-go middle school science lesson on the digestive system and nausea & vomiting? This Interactive Small-Group Lesson engages students in diagnosing a medical mystery while reinforcing key science concepts through hands-on activities, leveled texts, and creative projects. Aligned with NGSS MS-LS1-3 and MS-LS1-7, this lesson builds real-world skills in observation, evidence gathering, and systems thinking. What's Included: Interactive Small-Group Medical Mystery

This introductory lesson on analyzing graphs walks students through the analysis process step-by-step using a simple bar graph. A handout summarizes the steps and checks for understanding. The vocabulary of graphs is reinforced using engaging activities such as a Word Search, Word Scramble, Matching, and Crossword. Thirty BINGO cards based on the vocabulary are also included. This lesson can serve as an introduction or a review of how to analyze graphs. It requires no prep and would work

In these 12 student-paced lessons, students will work with a partner to use their Claim-Evidence-Reasoning skills to fact-check videos from the internet. They will analyze the information in the video for false or misleading statements, and then conduct their own internet search to verify whether those statements are factually correct or not. Each student will take notes separately while conducting their own search, and then compare notes with their partner before writing their final CER stateme

Engage your students with this comprehensive 5-day lesson unit inspired by the Scientific American article, “This ‘Tower of Worms’ Is a Squirming Superorganism.” Perfect for grades 6–8, this NGSS-aligned resource combines leveled informational reading, a hands-on STEM challenge, creative research projects, and vocabulary games to engage students in exploring animal cooperation and survival behaviors. ✅ What's Included: Day 1 – Video + Leveled Reading + Vocabulary 3 leveled reading passag

Engage your middle school students with this hands-on Valentine’s Day science lab exploring physical and chemical changes using candy hearts! Students will investigate how different liquids (water, vinegar, baking soda solution, and oil) interact with candy hearts over time, tracking dissolving rates, bubbling reactions, and solubility differences. This resource includes two versions of the lab: ✅ Slides – Perfect for digital instruction or classroom projection ✅ Printable PDF – Ideal for h

Master Wave Properties with This MS-PS4-1 Project-Based Learning and Vocabulary Bundle! Help your middle school students develop a strong understanding of MS-PS4-1 with this NGSS-aligned Wave Properties Bundle! This resource includes a dynamic Project-Based Learning (PBL) choice board filled with creative, student-driven activities that encourage exploration of key wave concepts like amplitude, wavelength, frequency, and energy transfer. Students will also reinforce important vocabulary through

Looking for a creative way to review the human body systems? "Two Truths and a Lie" is the perfect activity to spice up your bellringers or help students prepare for a quiz. Aligned with NGSS standard LS1-3, this lesson offers five statements that gradually increase in difficulty, providing a comprehensive review of key concepts. Each round is followed by the correct answer and a detailed explanation to reinforce learning. After playing, students can challenge themselves by creating their trut

Let students drive their learning using this NGSS-aligned project-based choice board. It includes detailed instructions for eight projects and a free option for advanced creatives. Transform into stations by choosing a handful of your students' favorites of these projects. The time spent on a choice board can range from one class period to a whole week. These choice boards are beneficial when addressing the accommodations needed for high and low-performing students. Students who struggle with tr

Engage your students in a high-interest, real-world classroom debate with this ready-to-use Space Tourism Debate, inspired by a recent Blue Origin spaceflight featuring an all-female, diverse crew of civilian astronauts. Students will explore the question: Should space tourism be celebrated as a scientific breakthrough—or criticized for its environmental and ethical costs?This flexible and thought-provoking lesson is perfect for science, ELA, social studies, or STEM classrooms. It fosters e

Help students create practical steps towards achieving their goals using this "Planning for the Future Project." It starts by having the students dream of their future life. Where do they live? How much will that cost? What kind of job will they need to help them afford that situation? Then, they explore what it takes to achieve that. After determining what's involved, they reflect on whether they are up for the task or want to choose another job, going through those steps again. Finally, they d

Help your middle school students build a strong understanding of MS-PS2-5 with this NGSS-aligned Noncontact Forces Bundle! This resource includes a dynamic Project-Based Learning (PBL) choice board filled with creative, student-driven activities that encourage exploration of noncontact forces such as electric, magnetic, and gravitational forces.Students will also reinforce essential vocabulary through fun, no-prep worksheets including a word search, word scramble, matching activity, crossword

Let students drive their learning using this NGSS-aligned project-based choice board. It includes detailed instructions for eight projects and a free option for advanced creatives. Transform into stations by choosing a handful of your students' favorites of these projects. The time spent on a choice board can range from one class period to a whole week. These choice boards are beneficial when addressing the accommodations needed for high and low-performing students. Students who struggle with tr

Let students drive their learning using this NGSS-aligned project-based choice board. It includes detailed instructions for eight projects and a free option for advanced creatives. Transform into stations by choosing a handful of your students' favorites of these projects. The time spent on a choice board can range from one class period to a whole week. These choice boards are beneficial when addressing the accommodations needed for high and low-performing students. Students who struggle with tr

In this lab, students explore the effects of thermal energy transfer, temperature, states of matter, and the effect of salt on the freezing point of water. This would be an excellent introduction or review of states of matter and thermal energy. It comes in both Slides and PDF. The teacher copy has sample answers and a rubric for the discussion. The PDF contains a bonus AI-generated coloring page.

Navigate the world of Natural Disasters with our versatile choice board - an NGSS MS-ESS3-2 resource. Analyze data on natural hazards, forecast future catastrophic events, and develop technologies to mitigate their effects. This choice board offers flexibility for in-class activities, homework, independent study, and assessment. NGSS-aligned for seamless integration. Rubric included for easy assessment.