Middle School

Sometimes taking your science project to the next level not only gets you an "A" but also gives your whole class dessert. With a few simple steps, you can create a fun science project that...

Learning the countries and capitals of the world is easier than you might think. Once you know them, it will help you understand more of how our world is connected and events that happen.

During the 1800s both Daniel Fahrenheit and Anders Celsius independently of each other developed the two most commonly used scales for measuring temperature. Fahrenheit improved on Olaus Roemer's...

According to the dictionary, a map scale is defined as "a ratio which compares a measurement on a map to the actual distance between locations identified on the map." Since it would be virtually...

The first opportunity many students have to work in a science lab is in middle school. As a teacher, you should instruct the students in all safety precautions and procedures before they begin any...

Science fairs are commonplace in schools today. Kids show how much they have learned about a topic using science display boards, which give information about experiments they have done. The more...

CONTINUED FROM PART THREE Besides being a performing musician, I spent over 30 years teaching in a large school district in an inner-city middle school. I learned a thing or two over the years,...

Besides being a performing musician, I spent over 30 years teaching in a large school district in an inner-city middle school. I learned a thing or two over the years, some of which I pass on to...

CONTINUED FROM PART ONE Besides being a performing musician, I spent over 30 years teaching in a large school district in an inner-city middle school. I learned a thing or two over the years,...

Besides being a performing musician, I spent over 30 years teaching in a large school district in an inner-city middle school. I learned a thing or two over the years, some of which I pass on to...

Multimedia is the combination of several types of media: video, audio, images, text and animation. The possibilities are endless, and it constantly surrounds students in their leisure time--video...

When children enter middle school, they take on the beginnings of a curriculum in science. They study rudiments of chemistry, biology, botany, archeology, meteorology and animal science. Assigning...

Making a deciduous forest diorama is a fun activity to do with children of almost any age, since you can adapt your biome to illustrate a wide variety of deciduous forest plants and animals and...

Plant and animal cells are sometimes too complex for a student to fully understand just by looking in a book. Filled with terms that are hard to say, such as golgi and centriole, the structure of...

On a triple beam measuring scale, the front bar measures grams, the middle bar measures hundreds of grams, and the back bar measures tens of grams. You can tell whether your reading on the scale...

The relative humidity is a representation of how much moisture is in the air relative to the air capacity to hold it. At higher temperatures, the air can hold more moisture than it can at lower...

Bullying within the school system may be seen as a precursor to more threats and violence if one were to view the shooting incident of Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, which caused the...

The technique of demonstrating how to get crystals to form on coal has fascinated children for years. A classic method involving mercurochrome and iodine can still be used if proper safety methods...

Growing crystals is a fun and educational project that kids enjoy. As the water from the solution evaporates with the help of ammonia, the salt crystals begin to form around the particles left by...

Atoms are the building blocks for everything on earth and combine to form compounds. For example, salt, or NaCl, is made up of a sodium atom and a potassium atom.

Child support laws in the U.S. exist to protect children and their custodial parent from becoming impoverished as a result of divorce, abandonment or circumstances removing the non-custodial...

I just received my 5th graders school picture package and price list. Oy! Needless to say, I am in sticker shock. The school photographers work under such tight time limits, that they are...

Some clocks are not perfectly accurate, and they may be that way for any number of reasons. For example, you may notice your wristwatch is a few minutes slow or your computer clock may be losing...

Many homes' sizes are measured by the number of square feet that the property encompasses. However, for large properties and tracts of land like farms, square feet are an impractical measurement...

Erosion is the name for when things break down, such as a rock breaking down into pebbles. Erosion can take place over millions of years, such as the formation of the Grand Canyon in Arizona.

Atoms are the basic unit for building molecules. Atoms join together with other atoms to create compounds.

A histogram is a chart that shows the frequency of different occurrences in visual form. It is useful for comparing the number of times different events occur such as the number of times a...

Decimal time, also known as metric time, uses a base 10 system for all units of time instead of the standard system that uses 60 seconds per minute, 60 minutes per hour and 24 hours per day. The...

PH strips are used to determine how acidic or alkaline a substance is. The pH of a substance is based on the concentration of hydrogen ions.

The pH measurement shows how acidic or alkaline a solution is based on the concentration of hydrogen ions. pH is a logarithmic scale, which means that each change of one on the scale represents a...

I have been teaching science for 21 years and have seen so many students struggle with tests, often getting questions wrong when they knew the answer all along but did not take time to understand...

The task of teaching world history to middle school students requires a combination of creativity and good resources. The average student at this age is less interested in the past than the...

Many metric bolts denote the use of metric measurements with an "M" at the start of the bolt designation, such as "M9x1.2x15." Metric bolts list measurements in millimeters. Besides using metric...

Want to be a substitute teacher? Afraid to sub in classrooms where there may be violence—especially with older students? I have subbed in "the hood" and through my experiences, I learned...

GCF stands for greatest common factor and the ladder method is one way of finding the prime factorization of a number. The prime factorization is then used to determine the GCF of two or more...

Junior high is the period of school that includes seventh and eighth grades. It is also referred to as middle school in some areas, and these are typically the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades....

Metric time is an alternative timekeeping system that uses 100 seconds per minute, 100 minutes per hour and 10 hours per day instead of the traditional 60 second per minute, 60 minutes per hour...

Calculating clock time to minutes passed is helpful in determining how long an activity took or how much time an employee worked. This is particularly important for hourly employees who are paid...

English language teachers in middle schools have an array of methods that can promote increased literacy for their students. Success in developing reading and comprehension skills at this level...

Mountain time and Pacific time refer to two time zones located in the United States and Canada. Time zones are ranges of longitudes where a common standard time zone is used to account for the...

Learn how to write a middle school essay. The dictionary helps with grammar and word usage, but this article will help you learn the format that is most often effective for writing essays at the...

This instructable will tell you how to make a totally awesome, but not very dangerous bottle bomb out of some materials that you will probably have just layin around

Whether you are a scientist or a traveler visiting a foreign country, it is imperative that you are able to convert from one unit to another. This article explains how to convert lengths, masses,...

Fossil fuels are materials that have been formed over millions of years from organic matter subjected to heat and pressure. They are considered a non-renewable resource. The most commonly used...

Middle school is a time when students are beginning to develop their independence, which can bring behaviors such as self absorption, drugs and alcohol use and inappropriate clothing choices. ...

This is just to tell you how to do well/better on test and quizzes.

Polynomials are functions that sum variables raised to different exponents, with constant coefficients--for example x^2+3x-4. The central aim of polynomial factoring is to rewrite them as the...

Prior to high school, students are expected to have a grasp of key concepts that they will use extensively in upper-level math courses. Typically, eighth graders study pre-algebra, which...

Grids are used in math to chart information. Artists use grids to recreate images and produce artwork in correct proportion. Using grids to recreate an image teaches math skills and also creates a...

Density is the amount of mass an object has per each unit of volume. Density is key in the principle of buoyancy, which is credited to Archimedes. It is also used in determining which material to...