Free Middle Grades Activities

Middle Grades Math
What is the One? (3-4) | Source: Solve It 3
Students will identify relationships in fractions, and explain how relationships change when the one changes.

By Golly, By Gum (4-7) | Source: JawBreakers
Students will use the scientific method to discover what happens to the mass of sugared gum when it is chewed.

Flagging Down Angles (4-5)
Students will write their initials using the semaphore flag signaling system; look for patterns in the flag signaling system; and relate the positions of the flags to acute, right, obtuse, and straight angles.

Middle Grades Science
Lining Up the Planets (4-8) | Source: Out of This World
Students will use a collaborative approach to construct a two-dimensional model that represents planet order in the solar system, make a scale model that represents planet order, and use a reading passage to collect information.

Food Chain (2-5) | Source: Critters
Students will learn about food chains and webs by researching animals and where they get their energy, create a food chain or web using the selected animals, and identify the variety of ways transfers of food energy can occur from a source in plants through a series of animals.

Sparky's Light Kit (4-9) | Source: Electrical Connections
Students will discover how to make a complete circuit that lights a bulb using only a D-cell, a bulb and a jumbo paper clip or wire and observe the transformation of chemical energy into light and/or heat energy.