Teaching Middle School: Grades 6-8
Find the middle school lesson plans and teaching tips you’ve been searching for at Bright Hub Education. Written and vetted by experienced teachers and education professionals, BrightHubEducation.com offers a variety of lessons, covering material in several core curricula such as English, Math, Science, Social Studies and The Arts. Many plans offer a series of lessons in a unit that you can teach during a several day or week time period, while others offer thematic tie-ins across several subjects, reinforcing the relevancy of the subject matter from different angles.
You will also find an entire topic devoted towards helping you manage the middle school years, with teaching tips and strategies targeted specifically towards dealing with the many transitions both students and teachers must balance in sixth, seventh and eighth grade. The tips and strategies, and often, the accompanying sense of humor, have been tried out and tested in middle school classrooms across the United States, and we share them freely with you.
English Lesson Plans for Middle School, Grades 6-8
- Island of the Blue Dolphins Questions and Classroom Activities
- Teaching Suspense in Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat
- Language Arts Halloween Activities
- Divergent Review and Lesson Ideas -- If Your Students Liked Hunger Games or The Giver, They Will Enjoy Divergent
- How to Write Shape Poems - A Lesson For Middle School
Lesson Plans for Middle School Science
- Teaching the Difference Between the Left and Right Hemisphere
- Newton's Laws Teaching Unit: Lessons and Guides to Address All Learning Styles
- From Macro to Micro: Focusing in on Biology Research Paper Topics
- Creating Connections Through Meteorology: Teaching Kids About the Weather
- Chrysanthemum Lesson Plans: Modeling a Think Aloud
Lesson Plans for Middle School Social Studies
- A Lesson in Conflict Using the Film Simon Birch
- Seventh Graders Will Love Making These Board Games
- Field Day Activities for Studying Lewis and Clark
- A Social Studies Unit: Create Your Own Island, Government & Society
- Ancient Canaan, The Exodus And Babylon: A Lesson Plan On Early Israelites and Ancient Palestine
