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!

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.