This is the official website for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. It gives information about the program, such as their mission statement, their core values, and their plan. It gives other information such as when they hold all of their webinars.
This website gives a variety of apps a teacher or student can use for educational purposes. This website is very easy to navigate as it classifies the apps in different categories.
In Domino Effect, students find out how much Domino's is really charging for pizza and explore this even further in three project tasks, Chain Gang, Cover Me and Top It Like It's Hot. Great activity for middle school math!
In Domino Effect, students find out how much Domino's is really charging for pizza and explore this even further in three project tasks, Chain Gang, Cover Me and Top It Like It's Hot. Great activity for middle school math!
6th and 7th grade free math worksheets and quizzes on roman numerals measurements, percent caluclations, algebra, pre algebra, Geometry, Square root.
This is a math website that can be used for middle school. It has worksheets and games that can be incorporated into the classroom.
Buzzmath is the best way to practice your middle school math skills. It's fun, it has immediate detailed feedback and examples that allow you to progress at your own pace.
This website helps students practice with math and gives them immediate feedback on their work.
This is a Weebly website created by Laura. Bonham, an elementary/middle school teacher. This website is a great example of how a class website can be used to keep parents up to date and informed about what is going on in the classroom. It includes things like dates, school supply needs, and homework.
This example of a functional Weebly website was created by a teacher. All updates for students and parents are located in this colorful and fun theme. Many helpful resources for her students can also help those in need of extra practice and homework.
As a teacher of mostly teenage boys, I can say my kids want to see three things: something on fire, something crashing, or something flying (and then crashing). I love teaching middle-school scie…
This explains how portfolios can be helpful and shows the best ways to use portfolios in high school, middle school, and elementary school, making it very beneficial for teachers of all age groups and grade level.
This online resource let's anyone add their favorite resources to one page. All you have to do it click on the icon picture and it will take you to their site.
Sybaloo is a great place to create and organize bookmarks for pages that you may visit everyday. They are organized into graphic tiles that are easy to see and read. Symbaloo will make a great homepage on your internet browser with all of your favorite pages right in front of you and the Google search tool in the middle with easy access.
This is the website that we used for our ice breaker. This website will be useful in middle school or high school classrooms for fun quizzes or even for different types of anonymous assessments.
This article gives tips for Middle School aged kids using the internet safely. These could be taught to the kids or put on a poster for them to access.
A great website that contains many informational videos about digital citizenship. One of the videos is about our digital footprint. There are many more videos that can teach us about what to not do on the internet, online talk: what is safe and risky, etc.
This YouTube channel can e used for ideas and inspiration for multimedia in the classroom. The creators of this channel make fun, attention-getting educational videos. Keep in mind that many of these videos are geared towards high schoolers but they can spark some ideas for videos and other grade levels.
Welcome to our professional learning series on building a PLN. This series guides you step by step through the process of setting up your own PLN. The aim of this first step is to: Explain what is a PLN. Help you understand why educators create their own PLN.
Welcome to our professional learning series on building a PLN. This series guides you step by step through the process of setting up your own PLN. It's great for people who still need to delve deeper into what a PLN actually is.
This is a very information-rich site that further introduces the PLN and delves into several different avenues a teacher can take in developing their PLN, with one avenue explored being Twitter. I particularly found the Step 6: Curation page to be intriguing. This page introduces curation, the strategic collection and compilation of knowledge and media found online, and demonstrates how it can be a valuable tool for educators engaged in expanding and sharing their constant learning and teaching journeys (See the video towards the middle of the page where a teacher shows his netvibes and scoopit accounts, and the very complex ways in which teachers can organize and share knowledge from these information collection/filtering tools. VERY valuable for our fast-paced and information-heavy time.)