March 8th, 2023
Middle School Resource
In this activity:
Thermometers placed outdoors on the north, south, east, and west walls of the building and also inside the building can be used to collect temperatures at different times of the day for several days. Students could be asked to choose a graph to display their recorded data. Topics for discussion include: comparisons of the warmest and coolest parts of the day, the warmest and coolest locations inside and outside, and reasons for these temperature differences.
Related NY State Academic Standards: 3.MD.3, 6.SP.1, MST3.3.S.2, and more!
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March 1st, 2023
Middle School Resource
This resource allows users to freely download Saint Patrick’s Collected Works of Saint Patrick as an audio book in mp3, iPod, or iTunes format.
Related NY State Academic Standards: SL.9-10.2, SL.9-10.5, SL.11-12.2, and more!
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February 22nd, 2023
Middle School Resource
Objectives:
- Students will gain an awareness of different occupations and changing male/female roles.
- Students will gain an awareness of how different occupations and gender roles affect the way they perceive and deal with others in the workplace.
Related NY State Academic Standards: CDOS.I.1.1.B, CDOS.I.1.1.D, CDOS.I.1.1.E, and more!
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February 15th, 2023
Middle School Resource
This simulation will allow students to view relationships between the calories in the foods they eat, and the amount of exercise needed to burn the calories off. It also helps them explore the relationship between calories and weight, and helps explore issues like these by selecting a diet and exercise program.
Using this simulation, students will:
- Recognize the connection between food and calories.
- Understand the relationship between calorie intake and weight.
- Learn about balancing diet with exercise to manage weight.
Related NY State Academic Standards: HPF.FC.I.1.1.A and HPF.FC.C.1.1.A!
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February 8th, 2023
Middle School Resource
This website contains a complete video archive of all of C-SPAN’s American Presidents: Life Portraits programming, providing an in-depth look at each of the presidents, their lives, families and administrations. The videos last two to three hours long and the most recent one created was about Bill Clinton.
On this site, students will find:
- Biographical facts
- Key events of each presidency
- Presidential places
- Reference material
Related NY State Academic Standards: SS.4.4.a.1, SS.5.6.a.1, SS.7.5.b.1, and more!
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February 1st, 2023
Middle School Resource
How do you think oxygen gets from the air into the parts of your body that need it? How many steps do you think it takes? In this activity, students will trace the path oxygen takes from breathing to running, jumping, lifting, or anything else they need to do!
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January 25th, 2023
Middle School Resource
This video, from History.com’s archives, focuses on how Barack Obama’s childhood helped to make him who he is today.
Related NY State Academic Standards: SS.5.6.a.1, SS.7.5.b.1, SS.8.9.a.3, and more!
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January 18th, 2023
Middle School Resource
In this experiment, you’ll learn that compass needles are little magnets that are free to rotate. Compasses allow us to observe the direction of a magnetic field. Normally, they respond to the earth’s magnetic field, orienting themselves parallel to magnetic field lines. If we create a magnetic field that is stronger than the field of the earth – for example, by using electric currents – a compass needle will orient itself parallel to the new field.
Related NY State Academic Standards: S.MS.PS.2.2, S.MS.LS.2.3, MST4.I.PS4.4, and more!
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January 11th, 2023
Middle School Resource
In this activity, students will understand the following:
- Close observation is an important tool for social scientists and for others who comment on American society.
- The laws that leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. worked for are in place but don’t always determine how people interact with one another.
Related NY State Academic Standards: SS.8.9.a.1, SS.8.9.a.2, SS.8.9.a.3, and more!
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January 4th, 2023
Middle School Resource
In this activity, students are given a grid that is 10 x 10, instructed that the grid contains 100 squares and that the entire grid is equivalent to one with each square equivalent to 1/100 or 0.01 or 1%. Students are given a series of fractions in groups of their common denominators (e.g., 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4) and are to divide the grid into those fractions and to count to find the decimal equivalent and percent. If students start with easy fractions like halves, 4ths, 10ths, and 5ths, they are then able to use the strategies they will discover to figure out more difficult fractions like 3rds, 6ths, 8ths, etc., using the grids. An example of how the grid could be divided for 4ths is shown below with a set of equivalent fractions.
Related NY State Academic Standards: 5.NF.3, 6.RP.2, 6.RP.3, and more!
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