Bits and Pieces of Middle School

Of course when teaching percents and decimals, a major application is discounts and markups.  Although students see sales and discounts dail...

Eighth graders have been studying electricity and for the first time, I have the material (very few) to have student create their own series...

I am currently teaching one of my favorite chapters in pre-algebra.  It is all about proportions and part of that is scale drawings.  Each y...

Christmas is such a hectic time, but luckily I was able to have some fun with it and be thankful for all the opportunities I've been giv...

With teaching middle school, the magic of Santa is somewhat lost.  However, this year I came across a post (unfortunately, I do not remember...

   In high school, we spent a lot of time drawing hands in my art class and as my homeroom's "art teacher," I thought we could...

  To wrap up our unit about the skin, students created a skin brochure that could be used in a dermatologist's office.  The brochure wou...