Making Middle School Learning FUN

It's often said that every class is a literacy class. Take your students' academic vocabulary skills to the next level by incorporating content specific morphology into your lessons. This document links content specific vocabulary to it's original meaning as well as to prior grade-level learning. Bonus, it also connects to words learned in science too!

This covers each of the vocabulary words from Illustrative Mathematics 6th Grade Unit 1. It is broken down by lesson, teaches the new vocabulary word and then provides an opportunity for students to practice the word. If the word shows up again later in the unit, there are slides dedicated to reviewing the word.

This is a template for playing a collaborative game to practice or review concepts. It can be used in any subject area. Students work in teams to complete tasks that earn them a spot on the board. Each spot on the board is worth a hidden amount of points. Teams don't know how many points they are earning until the end when the amounts are revealed. This means that groups who complete two tasks correctly could win the game over a team who completed 7 tasks correctly, making the activity equitable

Review the concepts you've taught throughout the year with this competitive review game. Students compete on teams to solve problems that help keep their team alive and give them the chance to steal lives from other teams. The questions asked follow the Illustrative Mathematics pacing from beginning of 8th grade to the end of 8th grade.

It's often said that every class is a literacy class. Take your students' academic vocabulary skills to the next level by incorporating content specific morphology into your lessons. These documents link content specific vocabulary to original meanings as well as to prior grade-level learning. Bonus, math and science connections are noted as well!

Review the concepts you've taught throughout the year with this competitive review game. Students compete on teams to solve problems that help keep their team alive and give them the chance to steal lives from other teams. The questions asked follow the Illustrative Mathematics pacing from beginning of 6th grade to the end of 6th grade. There are two questions per unit/topic.

Review the concepts you've taught throughout the year with this competitive review game. Students compete on teams to solve problems that help keep their team alive and give them the chance to steal lives from other teams. The questions asked follow the Illustrative Mathematics pacing from beginning of 7th grade to the end of 7th grade.

Get your students' brains going with this spin on traditional Pictionary! The game is played the same as Pictionary, only objects are drawn as fractions of themselves. Example: draw 2/4 of a monkey.

Give your students the chance to practice their understanding of fractions through this action packed, fun game of Spoons! (Spoons not included in download). The game is played like the traditional game of Spoons, except the four of a kind players are collecting are different categories of fractions. Example: you may collect the title card "Improper Fractions", along with 3 cards each with an improper fraction on it.

This is a student facing recorder for the purpose of them tracking and recording their progress toward multiplication fluency.

Get your kids brains going with this spin on traditional Pictionary. Students have to draw a Halloween themed object but in fraction form. For example, 1/2 of a witch's broom.

This classroom activity allows students work collaboratively or independently to practice measuring in both the standard and metric systems.