Science Resources
For Middle School Teachers

Filamentality
Filamentality is great for designing online lessons, webquests, organizing websites, etc.

Rubistar
This site is great for designing rubrics to help grade projects and presentations.

Concept Mapping Website
This is a concept mapping freeware.  It allows you to easily design concept maps with a variety of objects.

Misconceptions Quiz
This is a GREAT way to find out what the kids think!  The ASIM specialists recommend doing this first thing, then again at the end of the year to compare.  The questions are thorough, covering biology, physics and earth science.  They also contain “extra” words to make it false! An ASIM specialist scored 79% the first time by not carefully reading the questions!

Concord 
Pedagogica, Molecular workbench, TEEMSS and Population explorer are superb!  You will be asked to register, this is free.

NASAexplores
Express lessons and online resources. This site has a plethora of information and labs for all grade levels.

Science News for Kids
This is the home page which has links to teacher pages and lab and other activities.

 

6th Grade Earth Science

Ocean Mapping Activity
GREAT activity.  It uses Excel Spreadsheet software in a fun and easy way!

Scholastic Science Lesson Plans
This site contains activities, games, internet field trips, and lesson plan ideas. 

Dirtmeister Science Labs
This site contains easy to do activities with common items.

Weather Watch
This site from Scholastic is all about weather.

CPO Science Seasons Powerpoint
Foundations of Physical Science. This powerpoint includes collected data.  You could do this activity in class with a solar cell and a multimeter.

 

7th Grade Life Science

Cells Alive!
Awesome graphs!  Watch mitosis, meiosis happen!

Scholastic Earth & Space Lesson Plans
This is a great site for activities, lesson plans, and webquests.

Flinn Scientific Lesson Plans
This is a good site from Flinn, which includes a safety contract and lesson ideas.

TEEMSS
If you have any probeware that you need activities for, this is a great site.

 

8th Grade Physical Science

Alex Learning Exchange
This is a great source of lesson ideas with correlations to state course of study.

Scholastic Lesson Plans
Scroll down to the physical science listing.  This is a great site for activities, lesson ideas, etc.

Dirtmeister Labs
This site contains fun activities the students can do with household items.

Flinn Scientific Lesson Plans
This site contains a sample safety contract for middle school and additional resources from Flinn.

Grade School Labs
This site contains lab activities with common substances.

TEEMSS
If you have any probeware that you need activities for, this is a great site.