JoinAll Middle School resources
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Pie are not Round; <i>π</i>²
What would a math book be without a nerdy math joke? Bad joke aside, you might recognize π² as the formula for the area of a circle. And you mig...
NSTA Press Book
Science for English Language Learners: K-12 Classroom Strategies
If you work with linguistically and culturally diverse students, you and your students will benefit from the foundation this book provides for teachin...
NSTA Press Book
Assessment in Science: Practical Experiences and Education Research
If you want the latest research about assessment techniques that really work, you want Assessment in Science. This collection of informative, up-to-da...
NSTA Press Book
Exemplary Science in Grades 5-8: Standards-Based Success Stories
Do the Standards really matter in middle school? Nine years after the National Science Education Standards’ release, just how well do science teache...
NSTA Press Book
Virus and the Whale: Exploring Evolution in Creatures Small and Large
With this lively book of activities as their guide, students can follow seven scientists into their labs and out to the field to discover how evolutio...
Book Chapter
If you understood the first two chapters, you now know how to describe motion (using velocity and accelerations) and you know what causes changes in m...
Book Chapter
The contents of this chapter deal with air pressure and water pressure and what causes those things to increase and decrease. In addition, the real-wo...
Book Chapter
This chapter delves deeper into air pressure, or to be more correct, the pressure exerted by any gas. The most important part of this chapter is a sci...
Book Chapter
Balloons and Other Things That Sometimes Float
Hot air balloons float--sometimes. Regular old balloons that you get at a party float--sometimes. Boats float--sometimes. What makes them float and wh...
Book Chapter
The concepts covered so far that pertain to the Earth's weather will finally be applied in this chapter. A number of basic mechanisms that govern smal...
Book Chapter
In the previous chapter, we dealt with how the properties of air and water affected small-scale weather such as the formation of clouds, the formation...