More Best Practices for Middle School Classrooms : What Award-Winning Teachers Do
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Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| About the Author | p. xii |
| About the Contributors | p. xiii |
| Classroom Practices across the Curriculum | p. 1 |
| Classroom Management and Community Involvement | p. 2 |
| The Process of Effective Classroom Management | p. 3 |
| Developing Collaboration With Peers | p. 7 |
| Successful Classroom-Management Strategies | p. 11 |
| Taking Ownership | p. 15 |
| Parent Involvement: Heroes Among Us | p. 17 |
| Using Technology in the Classroom | p. 20 |
| Internet Safety | p. 21 |
| Lights, Camera, Action! | p. 24 |
| Using Technology to Teach Language Arts and Social Studies | p. 27 |
| Bridging Nations With Problem-Based Learning | p. 29 |
| Students Create Podcasts | p. 34 |
| Assessment | p. 39 |
| Short-Cycle Assessments | p. 39 |
| Science and Math | p. 45 |
| Teaching Science | p. 46 |
| Science Energy Lesson Including Differentiation and Inclusion | p. 47 |
| Creating Booklets Explaining Energy Transformation | p. 52 |
| Creating a Thriving Prairie | p. 55 |
| Building Scientific Relationships and Inquiry Skills Using Toys | p. 60 |
| It IS Rocket Science | p. 65 |
| Teaching Students About Cells | p. 66 |
| The Sustainable Green Vehicle | p. 69 |
| Teaching Math | p. 74 |
| Coordinate Plane Aerobics | p. 74 |
| How Long Will It Take? | p. 78 |
| The Hallway Crush: How Full Is Full? | p. 82 |
| Maze Madness | p. 91 |
| Scale and Drawing Relationships | p. 95 |
| Language Arts and Social Studies | p. 97 |
| Teaching Language Arts | p. 98 |
| Story Stew | p. 99 |
| Teaching Reading, Writing, and Differentiation | p. 101 |
| Tall Tales | p. 104 |
| Service-Learning Research Project | p. 107 |
| Comparing Formal and Informal Language | p. 111 |
| Teaching Descriptive Writing Using Song Lyrics | p. 113 |
| Teaching Social Studies | p. 117 |
| Historical Character Party | p. 118 |
| America's Dust Bowl | p. 123 |
| Medieval Italy | p. 127 |
| The Workforce | p. 130 |
| War! | p. 136 |
| The Mayflower Compact | p. 143 |
| Graveyard of the Atlantic | p. 146 |
| Music, Art, and Physical Education | p. 149 |
| Celebrating Music and Art | p. 150 |
| Successful Music Through the Use of Standards and Assessment | p. 151 |
| Comics: Integrating Language Arts, Math, and Social Studies With Art | p. 157 |
| Edible Color Wheels: A New Way to Introduce Color Theory | p. 165 |
| Chinese Zodiac: What Animal are You? | p. 167 |
| Physical Education | p. 170 |
| Feel It Today: Warm-Up and Conditioning Routine | p. 170 |
| Spider Web and Human Knot | p. 175 |
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