MsMiddle

We all love a good task card activity! I realized, they can be hard to find for the middle grades! Enjoy this digital AND printable resource! ✴Assign these tasks after instructing the CER or CSET concepts. ✴This is a great review and application resource. ✴Print and laminate so that students can write on the cards with dry erase markers. ✴Use the virtual version to assign to students who have access to a device (perfect for remote learning)! ✴Prepared in Google Slides for quickly assigning

Help students learn how to support their stance on in an argument with facts and evidence. This resource has students visit 4 stations to explore a variety of vetted resources--from articles, to infographics, videos, and audio clips. Students will decide: Should Valentine's Day be banned in our country? What are the pros and cons of the holiday? Is it something worth celebrating? By the end of this inquiry based stations lesson, students will synthesize their findings into a stance to debate

Meet the teacher! Introduce yourself to students and guardians with this one-page EDITABLE document. It is all laid out and designed, you simply fill in your personal information for families to get to know you as their child's teacher. This specifically has a middle school mission statement to assure families that their kiddo is in good hands with you as their 6th, 7th, or 8th grade teacher! This includes instructions on how to edit on Google, so even if you aren't "tech savvy" using this res

Excellent, quick assessment tool! Drop the Mic is a great closure, or check for understanding during a lesson. How to use this resource: Present students with a prompt. For example, I will typically have students answer the lesson essential question. Students independently, in partners, or in groups, develop a response (using complete sentences). Writing out their thoughts helps students feel even more confident when sharing aloud.Students stand and read their response aloud. Usually, I have th

This is a fabulous, fun way of assessing student understanding (even when it isn't winter)! Provide them with a prompt. I usually have them answer the lesson essential question as a way to close the lesson.Have students write their response independently,in pairs, or in groups. Students will share it, crumple it, and throw it! Kids get very into this, so it encourages sharing among even the shyest of learners.