Middle School Humanities

As educators, we are constantly on the lookout for engaging activities that promote critical thinking and deeper understanding among our stu...

Teaching Middle School History Through Literature from Starts At Eight. Literature is a great way to bring history alive! Beautiful Feet Books offers History Curriculum using literature to make it fun and engaging!

My rule #1 in a series about bringing out the best behavior in middle school students, Helpful tips for managing adolescents effectively.

The British playwright W. Somerset Maugham once said “the crown of literature is poetry.” For the English teachers out there who have spent a good part of the year teaching complex novels, grammar rules and how to write a constructed response, this probably rings true! Teaching poetry can be such a treat. It’s fun to have the students interpret ever-deeper meanings from even the shortest of stanzas. And it’s satisfying to find just the right poem to complement the theme or unit you’re…

A middle school teacher's blog: English, History, PBL, GBL, mindfulness, and student engagement.

Do you need warm up ideas? I want to share 3 warm up ideas for social studies classes with you. These are engaging and easy to implement!

I have been working closely with the literacy support teacher at my school recently. She and I have been co-teaching a Grade 8 Social Studies class and today I'd like to share an activity that she introduced me to: Collaborative Place Mats. This technique is especially helpful at the beginning of a project or inquiry to help groups start to brainstorm about their big idea, topic, or question. Before we began the activity, we talked as a class about what behaviours we wanted to follow as we…

Find out how I teach character and idea development in middle school!

Looking for ways to engage and excite middle school students during you SEL Lessons? Game-based learning is the way to go. Maybe you're a middle school

Trying to find fun and easy ways to review inferences with your middle school students? Check out these engaging and fun inference activities and worksheets for your sixth grade, seventh grade, and eighth grade students. Your 5th grade, 6th grade, and 7th grade students will grow from the making inferences practice in these ELA worksheets. These activities and Language Arts lessons are ideal for review and are just right for students in grades 5, 6, & 7.