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"Using Technology to Motivate Middle School Students Middle school students are motivated by experiential learning activities. Effective technology-based activities require students to do more than look up information; they require students to "do" something with it."

I thought this site might be a good place to get ideas.

A great site to look for new apps concerning education. Especially at the middle school level. They seem so hard to find! A site like this saves me hours of searching!

"Searching for middle school books that make the outside world disappear, the books that make me look for the next opportunity to read a few pages. Book summaries and images are directly copied from Follet's Titlewave and other reviewers as credited. Comments are my own. Eleanor Funk Schuster, Librarian"

I'm always looking for book suggestions for the kids. I like that there is a description of the book and often a link to the author's site.

"Every time you read a text you read it the same way, right? Novels, textbooks, magazine articles and Internet web pages are all the same if they are written in the same language, aren't they? The answer to both of the questions is "not really". Readers employ different reading strategies and prior knowledge based on the genre (type of reading) and topic of the text. For this reason it is important that teachers help students, especially those in middle and high school, learn how to "tackle" their particular content area's texts."

I always think it is important to help students with content area reading, so I found this site appealing.

Spelling city is a great place for students to practice their spelling words. Teachers can load their own lists!

I've used this site before too. I think the students (even middle school) like it too.

I thought there were a lot of good sites have students practice grammar.

Kids obstacles to technology