Jen Stark, Construction Paper, Art Education, Art Education Blog, Kim and Karen 2 Soul Sisters Art Education Blog, 8th grade, middle school art,
These all about me, back to school art activities for kids are engaging icebreakers. Encourage creativity and build community during the first week back
This figurative language foldable is a great introduction.Visit us!!
What do giant snack bags have to do with art? They are POP ART! Eighth grade took a look at pop artists, such as Andy Warhol, and we discussed popular culture. Some times labels, such as Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans, can be used for pop art. Eighth grade paired up into groups of two or three to create these giant snacks. Students brought in what ever type of snack bag they wanted to mimic. We used folding and measuring to try and match our snack bags. After painting the large paper we stuffed them with newspaper and stapled them closed. These snacks bags have been a hit in the lobby, with everyone stopping to check them out.
I love teaching all algebra topics with tons of interactive and collaborative activities that get students thinking independently and working together. This way everyone gets the practice they need to feel confident in algebra. Here are a bunch of slope activities that you can assign to students working in group or even digitally. I have updated many of the activities to now include links to interactive digital slope activities in Google Slides and Google Forms for blended learning.
Take a peek at the core subject curriculum I've chosen for my 8th grade homeschooler.
I want to discuss seating charts, but first let's start with some definitions. Heterogeneous is to be diverse in character or content while homogeneous is to be the same kind or alike. It is very
HALLOWEEN ART LESSONS for 5th Grade and up I've put together 6 of my favorite Halloween Art Lessons for 5th Grade through 8th Grade
Check out over 14 resources that should add to your 8th-grade homeschool curriculum. Includes resources for math, English, history, and even Spanish.
Can you believe it's already close to the end of the 1st nine weeks? I mean seriously?! We have been in school for almost a full quarter alr...
Posterized Portraits: Create striking portraits.
This resource is my 8th Grade Math Early Finishers (Paper Version). It includes NO PREP! Just print and go! CLICK THE PREVIEW!!! There are 4...
Are you looking for a way to scaffold math vocabulary and concepts and make math more visual? In this post are photos of math word walls for elementary, middle and high school math along with photos of math classroom word walls that teachers have sent to me of their math classroom set up. Included in this post are links to free math word wall cards and discounted printable math word wall bundles for a variety of math topics. I am updating each math word wall to include a virtual option. Now in the files will be color, black and white and interactive digital math word wall options.
Free 7th & 8th grade worksheets, printable games, and activities to make learning math, literacy, history, and science engaging and FUN!
Podcasts in the classroom are so fun and engaging! Have you jumped on the podcast train yet?! I have a great system for using podcasts in the classroom...
This first big 8th grade project took the entire semester to complete! The students were introduced to the work of contemporary artist Chuck Close. We looked at many examples of his portraits and w…
Explore ancient Egypt with kids by solving a FUN, free printable CSI-style case investigating was King Tut Murdered. Fun history activity!
Get your students thinking like a historian from the get-go with these tips and ideas for your first Social Studies lesson of the year.
Hey friends! So I LOVE books and over the last 3-4 years of teaching, I have started to kind of put books into categories based on what I feel or think as I am reading, and always take this into consideration when I pick a read aloud or create a reading unit. I still believe ... Read more
8th Grade Reading Book Report Read more about paragraph, characters, author, summarize, april and briefly.
Alec and I worked long and hard to come up with a good plan of attack for his 8th grade year. Most likely this will be his last year at ho...
FREE Middle School Science Resources Hello middle school science teachers! Are you looking for free science worksheets? How about some free science posters and activities? Here is my collection of free resources about the scientific method, genetics, the human body, physical science, measurement, data analysis, and more! I created them with seventh grade science in mind, but these resources will work perfectly for other grades as well. Look below to find some great resources for your science classroom. Click on the links to download. Enjoy :) Data Analysis Free Analyzing Data and Interpreting Graphs Digital Task Cards Boom Deck: Use these digital task cards to practice interpreting data from pie charts, line graphs, and bar graphs. You can also use it as a fun way to assess what students understand about reading graphs. Unfamiliar with Boom Learning? Learn more about how to use Boom for free in your classroom. Free Analyzing Data Worksheet: Average Global Temperatures in the 21st Century: This worksheet will give your students practice analyzing data and interpreting a line graph. It uses temperature data about climate change available from NASA. Students will examine twenty years of real average global temperatures to answer the questions on the worksheet. It can be used in science, social studies, or math classes. Use the worksheet as an in-class assignment, homework, or a substitute plan. Genetics Free Genetics Vocabulary Boom Deck: Students use these digital task cards on the Boom Learning site to practice the definitions of genotype, phenotype, dominant, recessive, homozygous, and heterozygous. All cards are multiple choice or click the correct response. Use this versatile deck as a preassessment, homework assignment, review, or assessment. Free Halloween Genotype and Phenotype Punnett Square Worksheet: Celebrate Halloween in your science classroom with this fun Halloween monsters worksheet! Your students will create Punnett squares to determine the likelihood of certain genotypes and phenotypes in monsters. Free St. Patrick's Day Monohybrid Crosses Punnett Square Worksheet: Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in science with this genetics worksheet featuring leprechauns. Your students will use monohybrid Punnett squares to find the percent chance of different genotypes and phenotypes. Students will need a working knowledge of words like heterozygous, homozygous, hybrid, and purebred. The questions on the worksheet are arranged from easiest to most challenging. Free Winter Holiday Genetics Punnett Square Worksheet: Students find the genotypes and phenotypes of the offspring of winter holiday characters like Santa and Mrs. Claus, Rudolf, and elves. This one page worksheet can be used as practice in class or as a homework assignment. A key is included. The Human Body Free Body Systems Bell Ringers: This set has six warm-up cards, one from each of the following organ systems: nervous, circulatory, respiratory, skeletal, muscular, and digestive systems. Use these warm-up cards as bell ringers, task cards, or stations. They're perfectly sized to fit in science interactive notebooks! Free Body Systems Informational Posters: Use these colorful posters to decorate your science classroom during your unit on the human body. The organ systems included are the digestive, muscular, skeletal, nervous, respiratory, and circulatory systems. Free Homeostasis Worksheet: This one-page worksheet will introduce your middle school or upper elementary science students to homeostasis with a short reading passage and a question set about homeostasis. Get lesson plan ideas for teaching homeostasis. Free Levels of Organization & Tissues Vocabulary Game Cards: Use this set of eight differentiated science vocabulary game cards in your human body unit to review and reinforce terms related to the levels of organization in the human body and the four basic types of tissue. The cards can be used in many ways throughout your lessons; nine ideas for use are included. The eight included vocabulary cards are cell, tissue, organ, organ system, epithelial tissue, nervous tissue, muscle tissue, and connective tissue. Learn more about vocabulary review activities. Measurement Free Density Science Interactive Notebook Page: Students practice the relationship between mass, volume, and density in this INB page perfectly sized to fit in composition notebooks. An answer key is provided. Free Liquid Volume Graduated Cylinders Worksheet: Give your students practice measuring liquid volume in 30 mL graduated cylinders. Students record the volume of liquid in graduated cylinders and shade the graduated cylinders to show specific volumes. The graduated cylinders in this worksheet show liquid with a meniscus instead of a straight line. Physical Science Free Heterogeneous & Homogeneous Mixtures Winter Holiday Activity: Use this activity to introduce, practice, or review heterogeneous and homogeneous mixtures while celebrating the winter holidays. Students classify candy into groups of mixtures and discuss why each candy is heterogeneous or homogeneous. The activity can be used with or without candy. If teachers choose to use the activity without candy, students can write their favorite candies on the included blank candy cards. Free States of Matter Odd One Out Worksheet: This one page worksheet will give your students practice with the states of matter (solid, liquid, and gas). It involves critical thinking skills and will challenge your students. The questions are arranged from easiest to hardest. Learn more about how to challenge your students' critical thinking skills with Odd One Out Worksheets. The Scientific Method Free Constants (Controlled Variables) Exit Ticket: Use this quick four question assessment to determine student understanding of what a constant is, why constants are important, and how to identify constants in experiments. The questions are all multiple choice. Multiple printing options are included. Free Qualitative and Quantitative Observations Activity: This activity gives students a chance to review qualitative and quantitative observations and then work together to practice identifying each type of observation with everyday objects. The objects can be anything the teacher has available in the classroom. Free Variables and Hypotheses Coloring Worksheet: Practice the scientific method with this sports-themed coloring worksheet. This worksheet gives your students practice with independent variables, dependent variables, and hypotheses. Students read scientific questions and identify variables by coloring stars. Then they write hypotheses. Get ideas about how to teach the scientific method to your students. Newsletter signup freebie: Become an email subscriber to get this exclusive scientific method freebie. Miscellaneous—Use in any grade and subject area Free Homework Pass: Use these homework passes as a way to reward good student behavior. A black and white and colored version are both included. There are ten homework passes per page to reduce printing time and paper waste. Free Interactive Notebook Grading Rubric in English and Spanish: This quick and easy grading rubric allows teachers to grade interactive notebooks at a glance. Use it to grade students on their table of contents, completion of daily work, page numbers, completed glossary, and overall neatness and organization. Read about the best way to set up interactive notebooks in your classroom. Free Student Goal Posters: Use these student goal posters to get students thinking about what they want to be when they grow up and how your class can help them reach their goal. Thank you for checking out my free science resources! I hope they help make your teaching life easier. Have a great year teaching middle school science!
This Daily Doodle Vocabulary resource will introduce your students to dozens of new vocabulary words, and a brand-new way of learning them: with doodles! When students are exposed to new words, they become strong readers and writers. This resource contains 160 vocabulary words -- enough for an entire school year! Doodling has been shown to improve concept retention, so with this resource, your students will have the tools they need to boost their vocabulary knowledge to new heights. The words in this resource are selected for students in grades 6-8. Perfect for middle school! Find a version for grades 3-5 HERE. Daily Doodle Vocabulary includes 40 weeks of engaging activities! Each week, students will learn four new words. While learning the words, they’ll discover the definition, read a sample sentence, complete a vocabulary task, and then create a DOODLE or sketch based on the word. So much fun! The words are loosely grouped together based on topics or themes. After students learn the four words, they’ll write a paragraph incorporating all of their new vocabulary words. You know what that means, right? Students are not only being exposed to 160 new words, they're also doing the all-important task of putting those words into context, by writing 40, meaningful-to-them paragraphs! Set-up is easy! Just copy the daily vocabulary worksheets for the entire year and bind them together, group them into monthly packets, or distribute them on a weekly basis to students! Resources are included to help introduce the Daily Doodle Vocabulary to students. There’s an overview handout that reviews the purpose of the activities along with an explanation about the power of doodling and writing. In addition, you’ll find a “Writing Tips and Tricks” handout to help instruct students about HOW to use their new words correctly in their writing passages. Both handouts are included to help students be more successful all year long! Beyond the 80 pages of Daily Doodle Vocabulary tasks and paragraphs, there’s also a glossary that students can fill in throughout the entire school year! So cool! Oh, and since teachers love a little flexibility, there’s even 3 sets of blank doodle vocabulary pages so that you can write in your own custom words for a particular unit of study! You’ll find everything you need to implement an effective and FUN vocabulary program into your classroom! With this resource students will LEARN, PRACTICE, DOODLE and WRITE! This engaging vocabulary resource includes: Overview, set-up guide, grading tips, resource explanation, how to get started, implementation ideas and bonus materials explanations (for teachers) --- 8 pages Daily Doodle Vocabulary Cover Page (for students’ packets) Daily Doodle Vocabulary – directions and tips handout (for students) Writing Tips and Tricks – handout (for students) 80 pages of Daily Doodle Vocabulary Tasks – 160 words – 40 paragraphs Daily Doodle Vocabulary Answer Keys (20 pages) Daily Doodle Vocabulary Fill-In Glossary (16 pages) Daily Doodle Vocabulary Index (5 pages) Great News! An alternative version of this resource is available for grades 6-8. You might want to combine the two versions so that you can easily differentiate instruction in your classroom. Learn more about the version for grades 3-5 HERE. There’s even more doodle vocabulary for students! ELEMENTS of FICTION Doodle Vocabulary - Students learn 36 words associated with fiction and doodle along the way! ELEMENTS of NONFICTION Doodle Vocabulary - Students learn 39 words associated with nonfiction and doodle along the way! Other Doodle and Do Resources… Doodle and Do Reading Skills Bundle! - Making Inferences, Finding the Main Idea, Fact & Opinion, Sequencing, and Summarizing 5 Nonfiction Text Structure Mini-Units - Problem/Solution, Compare and Contrast, Descriptive, Chronological Order, and Cause and Effect How to Study for a Test Doodle Notes and 5 Learning Stations Writing Responses with Text-Based Evidence Doodle Notes and 5 Learning Stations You may also like: 120 Daily ELA Warm-Ups! - Students choose to do the “this” or the “that” warm-up each day! Expository Writing Unit - Researching and Writing a News Story About a Historical Event Poetry Writing Unit - 11-Day Poetry Study and Writing Unit 101 Writing Prompts - Students choose which creative prompt they would like to respond to. Following is Fun! Get the inside scoop on all store discounts, free products, and product launches. Just click the green “Follow Me” star under my store name on this page or click the green “Follow Me” star on my store homepage. Let’s Stay in Touch! Blog Pinterest Facebook Instagram *** Click HERE to receive the Brain Waves Instruction Newsletter filled with exclusive FREEBIES and Teaching Tips! Thanks! Brain Waves Instruction
I develop curriculum for middle school math. I focus on using critical-thinking skills in my content so the math makes sense to the students.
These all about me, back to school art activities for kids are engaging icebreakers. Encourage creativity and build community during the first week back
An English teacher’s life is packed, and for the most part on top of that, we are doing more than just teaching English. For me, I’m the yearbook adviser, the graduation coordinator, senior class sponsor, member of the leadership committee, etc. I’m sure your situation is similar. So, when I can cut down on what […]
On a double chromatic gradation painted with acrylic paint, was pasted the skyline of a city cut out from a black cardboard. The color gradation was painted starting from a central yellow stripe, w…
Dive into part two of Halloween short stories for middle school. Uncover spooky tales, teaching tips, and activities to bring a chill to your classroom discussions.
transformations, translations, reflections, rotations, dilations, transformations worksheet, transformations activity, transformations foldable
Best 25 8th Grade Graduation Gift Ideas for Daughter . It’s the excellent gift they can stand out open once they have actually obtained their degree!No issue what you choose […]
Do you want to assign your 7th graders a fun summer review? Do you want to challenge students in reviewing Math Skills for 8th grade? CLICK HERE to DOWNLOAD If you said YES, this is the perfect Summer Math packet that your 7th grade students will want to complete! This packet is FUN and FULL of seventh-grade math problems. Students love the fun coloring, puzzles, and problem solving activities. CLICK HERE to DOWNLOAD How to use it: 1. A fun review at the end of 7th grade during May & June or after testing! 2. A summer packet for students to complete at home during June, July, & August! 3. A beginning of 8th grade year review activities during August & September!! FEATURES: This is a 30 day Summer Math Activities Packet. It is the perfect math review to help students avoid the Summer Slide! FUN activities and puzzles centered on reviewing math curriculum. Designed for students who have completed 7th grade and are going into 8th grade. Great end of year review for 7th Grade or Beginning of the Year for 8th Grade! Packed with 7th grade math problems for review and practice. Tied to benchmarks required for 8th grade. Keep your students on target with the tracking page. As they complete pages in the packet, students will color a part of a beach picture until they complete the packet. ALL ANSWER KEYS are included. A Sample Letter to parents & students from Math Department. (I use this every year when I send home the summer packet!) Certificate of completion for finishing this FUN Summer Packet. Lots of coloring fun! Students are encouraged to color every page of the Summer math packet. Table of Contents: Days 1-4: Compute unit rates Days 5-6: Analyze proportional relationships Days 7-10: Operations with fractions Days 11-16: Rational Numbers Days 17-19: Write & evaluate equivalent expressions Day 20-22: Solve expressions & equations Day 23-24: Construct geometric figures Day 25-26: Solving area, surface area, & volume Day 27-28: Draw inferences about populations Day 29-30: Evaluate probability models I hope this is an engaging and fun Summer packet for your seventh grade students to complete. I also have Summer packets available for grades 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Happy Teaching!
