Interactives

Science News for Students is an amazing resource of current, high interest, leveled articles and videos for middle school level students. In my Science Investigations series, I gather sets of related articles from the site and create reading guides, discussion questions, and challenges related to the topic. Lessons can be completed digitally or in printed form. They can be used as individual assignments, but also lend themselves to group discussions and collaboration and are adaptable to in c

Interactives Digital Journals for Connected Kids means no more tedious hours in the print room. If your classes have daily access to computers, make the journals available through your school's learning platform. Students complete their assignments digitally, while you spot check individual pages or instruct them to upload the entire journal back to you. The Simple Machines Digital Journal includes vocabulary charts, a web quest, and an engineering project. Use it as a stand alone unit or as a

Interactives Digital Journals for Connected Kids means no more tedious hours in the print room. If your classes have daily access to computers, make the journals available through your school's learning platform. Students complete their assignments digitally, while you spot check individual pages or instruct them to upload the entire journal back to you. The Describing Motion Digital Journal includes vocabulary charts, computer simulations, and an experiment with recording sheets for all assign

Science News for Students is an amazing resource of current, high interest, leveled articles and videos for middle school level students. In my Science News Investigations series, I gather sets of related articles from the site and create reading guides, discussion questions, and challenges related to the topic. Lessons can be completed digitally or in printed form. They can be used as individual assignments, but also lend themselves to group discussions and collaboration and are adaptable to in

*** Requires access to at least one robot and programming software*** Students use this digital journal to work through an engineering challenge using a programmable robot. The journal includes sample challenges to inspire their thinking and fillable text boxes to record their ideas, plans, and results. Pages are included for up to six modification cycles. Instruction pages walk them through the engineering process and can be used as a whole class discussion or small group challenge.

Analogies are a powerful tool to help students understand and remember academic vocabulary. They can also be very challenging for the students to create. This set provides a sample analogy for each term in the Describing Motion Digital Journal. Use it as a presentation for class discussion to get students started thinking, then print activity cards for the students to discuss and match in small groups before completing their digital journals assignment. Each word and analogy is presented b

Interactives Digital Journals for Connected Kids means no more tedious hours in the print room. If your classes have daily access to computers, make the journals available through your school's learning platform. Students complete their assignments digitally, while you spot check individual pages or instruct them to upload the entire journal back to you. This Lab Report journal provides sentence tags, tables, and editable text boxes for beautiful professional looking lab reports. Students m

UPDATED: Now with self-grading quizzes for each section From Stonehenge to skydiving, friction controls our motion. Students studying this unit will read and analyze online articles, complete computer simulations, and conduct two experiments on the effects of friction. All work is recorded in the fillable pdf journal, meaning no printing for you! You are free to personalize the journal by adding your own pdf worksheets, notes, or diagrams before downloading it to your students.

Each Interactives Digital Journal unit contains a variety of individual and cooperative activities which may not be familiar. This free planning guide explains each of the forms and assignments and offers teaching suggestions to get the most out of the journals.