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Keep your class engaged with these fun learning activities for middle school students! Explore our hands-on classroom activities, no matter what subject you teach and whether your students are in person or remote.
Explore these English language arts, math, science, and social studies resources, including video, downloadable lessons, and more—all available for free.
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Embrace SEL in the classroom with these social-emotional learning activities for middle school that address each of CASEL's five core competencies.
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Sharpen your writing, language, critical thinking, and reading skills with these instructional resources for Grades 6-8, including a poetry scavenger hunt.
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Students will learn from reading diary entries written on the Oregon Trail how such writings preserve history and bring the past to life.
View a full list of middle school reading and ELA activities.
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Download financial literacy activities for middle school students and teach them about topics including wages, salaries, and careers.
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Put students in Grades 6-8 on the path to making knowledgeable purchasing decisions with these free activities ideal for at-home learning.
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Explore 6 fun math activities for middle school from HMH's GO Math! program. These middle school math games and projects for grades 6-8 will keep your students engaged.
View a full list of middle school math activities.
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Explore a variety of scientific learning activities to engage students in objects in the sky.
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Download these spread of infectious disease lab activities for students in Grades K-8 to teach them how to prevent the transfer of germs and infectious diseases.
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You can use these free online activities from the National Assessment of Educational Progress to gauge how well your students understand NGSS science concepts.
View a full list of middle school science activities.
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Use this Renaissance lesson plan and activities for middle school and high school to teach your students about this era of cultural "rebirth" in the 14th to 17th centuries.
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Use this Navajo Code Talkers lesson plan to explore history and how we can take action to preserve Native American languages today.
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Download a 1960 election lesson plan to teach your students about the first-ever televised presidential debates in 1960 and their long-term impact.
View a full list of middle school social studies activities.
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