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

*** 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.