Middle School Y'all

Have your students ever asked...💬 "Why did I only get a 2 on my CER?"One of the best ways for students to improve their scientific writing is by learning to recognize what makes a strong Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) response.In this interactive activity, students become the teacher! They'll analyze and score multiple student CER responses using a rubric, justify their thinking, and compare their scores with detailed teacher explanations. By evaluating responses ranging from novice to distingu

This Human Body Systems Bundle includes everything you need to teach the six major body systems in a clear, engaging, and student-friendly way. Designed for middle school science, this bundle combines visually structured teaching slides with student graphic organizers to support understanding, note-taking, and vocabulary development. Systems included: Circulatory Digestive Respiratory Excretory (Urinary) Nervous Muscular Each system includes: Easy-to-follow instructional slides Student grap

Stay organized and simplify student support tracking with this all-in-one editable Google Sheets Student Support Tracker! Designed for busy teachers, this interactive spreadsheet helps you organize accommodations, modifications, testing supports, EL supports, and student needs all in one place. This resource includes dropdown menus, checkboxes, and auto-fill EL support suggestions based on English proficiency levels to help streamline documentation and save valuable planning time. Perfect for: G

Engage your students with this interactive Forces & Motion Choice Board designed to promote critical thinking, student choice, and NGSS-aligned science learning! This resource heavily focuses on forces, motion, and energy concepts while also spiraling in additional science standards and skills, making it perfect for review, reinforcement, enrichment, or end-of-unit practice. Need a meaningful multi-day sub plan that keeps students engaged and thinking critically? This resource is designed to kee

Stay organized all year long with this editable monthly planning calendar designed specifically for teachers!This Google Docs planner includes monthly calendar pages organized by tabs, making it easy to navigate between months while keeping all of your planning in one convenient location. Featuring a clean layout and preppy color palette, this resource is perfect for lesson planning, pacing, scheduling important dates, tracking deadlines, and staying organized throughout the school year.What's I

Need a no-prep energy lesson or emergency sub plan? This interactive Google Slides activity uses the PhET Energy Skate Park simulation to help students explore kinetic energy (KE), potential energy (PE), gravitational potential energy (GPE), thermal energy, and energy transformations through hands-on investigation and critical thinking. Students will read informational texts, complete drag-and-drop activities, collect and analyze simulation data, investigate the effects of friction, and construc

Need a no-prep science lesson or emergency sub plan? This interactive Google Slides activity helps students practice and apply Newton's 2nd Law through engaging force, mass, acceleration, and net force scenarios. Students work independently as they solve problems, analyze real-world situations, and explain how changes in force and mass affect motion. Perfect for sub plans, review days, independent practice, early finishers, or reinforcing key force and motion concepts! Skills Covered: Newton

Stay organized and on top of your school year with this clean, functional, and fully editable 2026–2027 calendar designed specifically for teachers! This Google Docs calendar is perfect for lesson planning, tracking important dates, organizing units, and keeping your classroom schedule running smoothly all year long. What’s Included:Full 2026–2027 school year calendarClean, minimal layout (printer-friendly!)Fully editable in Google DocsSpace for notes, reminders, and planningPerfect For:Lesson

As more classrooms move toward intentional technology use, organization systems matter more than ever. These Chromebook Crate labels help create simple, consistent routines while keeping shared devices organized and accessible for students.Keep your classroom organized while supporting more intentional technology use with these Chromebook Crate labels! Designed for classrooms and table groups, this resource helps create smooth Chromebook routines while reducing unnecessary daily device use. Stud

Help students deepen their understanding of cell structure and function through a meaningful real-world analogy! In this editable Google Slides project, students compare cell organelles to places and people within a school while supporting their thinking using Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) writing.Students will identify school structures and roles that function similarly to cell organelles and justify their comparisons using scientific evidence. This project promotes critical thinking, scientif

Stay organized and on top of your school year with this clean, functional, and fully editable 2026–2027 calendar designed specifically for teachers! This Google Sheets calendar is perfect for lesson planning, tracking important dates, organizing units, and keeping your classroom schedule running smoothly all year long. What’s Included:Full 2026–2027 school year calendarOne month per tab for easy navigationClean, minimal layout (printer-friendly!)Fully editable in Google SheetsSpace for notes, r

As more classrooms move toward intentional technology use, organization systems matter more than ever. These Chromebook Corral labels help create simple, consistent routines while keeping shared devices organized and accessible for students.Keep your classroom organized while supporting more intentional technology use with these Chromebook Corral labels! Designed for middle school classrooms and table groups, this resource helps create smooth Chromebook routines while reducing unnecessary daily

As more classrooms move toward intentional technology use, organization systems matter more than ever. These Chromebook Corral labels help create simple, consistent routines while keeping shared devices organized and accessible for students.Keep your classroom organized while supporting more intentional technology use with these Chromebook Corral labels! Designed for middle school classrooms and table groups, this resource helps create smooth Chromebook routines while reducing unnecessary daily

Looking for a low-prep back-to-school activity that helps students connect beyond simple introductions? This Find Someone Who & Who Can icebreaker combines traditional getting-to-know-you prompts with conversation-focused challenges designed to encourage meaningful interactions and build classroom community from day one.Students will move around the room, meet new classmates, and discover common interests while practicing conversation skills. The included "Who Can" version goes beyond simple yes

Stay organized and on top of your school year with this clean, functional, and fully editable 2026–2027 calendar designed specifically for teachers! This Google Sheets calendar is perfect for lesson planning, tracking important dates, organizing units, and keeping your classroom schedule running smoothly all year long. What’s Included: Full 2026–2027 school year calendar One month per tab for easy navigation Clean, minimal layout (printer-friendly!) Fully editable in Google Sheets Space for

Looking for a back-to-school activity that goes beyond the typical "get-to-know-you" worksheet? Classroom Connections uses a simplified hexagonal thinking strategy to help students discover shared interests, build relationships, and create a stronger classroom community from day one. Students complete a personal hexagon featuring information about themselves, then work together to connect their hexagons based on common interests, experiences, goals, and favorites. As the display grows, student

Support your students in writing stronger explanations with these engaging CER Sentence Starters & Writing Supports! While designed with science classrooms and NGSS instruction in mind, these sentence starters can be used across multiple subject areas to help students confidently structure written responses using Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning. These versatile supports can be used in a variety of ways: print them as classroom posters, add them to interactive notebooks, display them on Google Sli

Help students communicate their understanding quickly and confidently with these Levels of Understanding classroom posters!These easy-to-read visual posters give students a simple way to self-assess their understanding during lessons, independent work, small groups, and class discussions. Perfect for building student ownership, encouraging reflection, and creating a supportive classroom environment. Each level includes student-friendly language that clearly explains how students may be feeling a

This Element Project is a perfect assignment for extension learning, enrichment, or sub plans. Because it is structured, independent, and student-driven, it works beautifully when you want students engaged in meaningful work without requiring direct instruction. Students research three elements using guided organizers and then create a one-pager for a gallery walk, allowing them to deepen their understanding of the periodic table while practicing research, organization, and presentation skills.

Make Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning (CER) easy for students to understand with these clear, student-friendly classroom posters. Each poster focuses on one part of CER, giving students a simple visual reference they can use during science writing, labs, and assessments. What Are CERs? CER is a framework students use to explain their thinking in science by making a claim, supporting it with evidence, and explaining how the evidence supports the claim through reasoning. What’s Included: 3 prin