Teachers Pay Teachers
JULY 21, 2025
Use these easy and effective ELA activities for middle school to keep students engaged and teach them valuable skills. These short ELA activities for middle school get students thinking and writing quickly. Pen a letter to a character Do your middle school readers have something to say to someone in your class novel?
Teachers Pay Teachers
JULY 15, 2025
When science students combine their natural curiosity with engineering know-how, the sky’s the limit (literally, if you’re working on rockets)! Build the sturdiest bridge in class One of the classic STEM activities for middle school , this team project uses elements of both mechanical and civil engineering, as well as teamwork.
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Teachers Pay Teachers
JUNE 9, 2025
These ice breakers and brain breaks for high school may build friendships that last all semester, all year, or even beyond high school itself. What was middle school like for you? Do you hope high school is the same or different? When do you send a text versus calling someone on the phone?
Edsurge
JULY 17, 2023
Educator Jen Manly, left, and EdSurge reporter Nadia Tamez-Robledo address the audience during a discussion about the challenges students face while doing group work. If you’re EdSurge reporter Nadia Tamez-Robledo, who’s currently in grad school, you’ve recently experienced all three of these scenarios. Great question.
eSchool News
JANUARY 17, 2019
We’ve also renovated more than half of our classrooms with new personalized and flexible seating and completely transformed 12 classrooms in our middle school. Those TVs—three in each room—are all wired together so that teachers and students can show one example on all three or operate each one individually for small-group work.
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
For example, I am working with a district right now that is redesigning every one of their classrooms. They’re starting with their middle schools, and it’s a big change for everyone there. We then connected these to strategies already in use in the district.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
Some said the video was never posted, others told me the link didn’t work but I had checked that link multiple times. For the past 13 years, I have been a social studies teacher at the middle school level. AJ Bianco is a middle school social studies teacher at Harrington Park School District in Harrington Park, New Jersey.
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