Middle school group projects

I want to provide you with some fun activities for middle school to incorporate in your classroom. Fun activities for middle school help create a sense of community and allow students to form a relationship with you. Crafts and art projects act as fun activities for middle school students. Check out

Team-building activities in the middle school classroom are a great way to build relationships at the beginning of the school year!

If you're looking for STEM activities for older students, you will love this collection of easy STEM challenges for middle school.

DIY mosaic can be any picture or pattern produced by arranging together small colored pieces of hard material like stones, tiles or glass.

This unit focuses explicitly on Dale Chihuly: his life, his art. The artmaking pursued in this unit is inspired by one of Chihuly’s most well-known themes: the bowl.

Team-building activities in the middle school classroom are a great way to build relationships at the beginning of the school year!

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…

Here's a great idea I spotted on Pinterest.... I tried this lesson with my middle school students and they had so much fun with it! I originally used a copy machine to enlarge students' fingerprints. It was cumbersome and time-consuming. But then I figured out a faster, easier, and better way! For detailed instructions with photos, tips, writing prompts, a student gallery, and fascinating fingerprint facts, check out my fun resource on TPT! My pdf also comes with 3 ready-to-use fingerprint…