JoinAll Middle School resources
Journal Article
By Kathy-Uyen Nguyen, Andrew R. Ratchford, Jason L. Painter, Rachael Polmanteer, Ann E. Norcross, and Jonathan S. Lindsey
Journal Article
Integrating Crosscutting Concepts and Literacy Strategies to Support Visual Literacy
By Eric Brunsell, Elizabeth D. Alderton, and Josh Morris
Journal Article
Using Big Data to Understand the History of Planet Earth
By Peggy Mansfield McNeal and Elizabeth Cordle
Journal Article
Drawing to Learn to Draw Out Student Understanding
By Christine Karlberg, Laura Henriques, and Alan Colburn
Web Seminar
Explore-before-Explain teaching is all about creating conceptual coherence for learners to better prepare students for the reality of their world. ...
Journal Article
How Can We Use and Interact With Graphs Better? (Data Literacy 101)
By Kristin Hunter-Thomson
Lesson Plan
The purpose of this assessment probe is to comprehensively elicit students’ ideas about the relationship between force and motion. The list of possible answers includes several distracters that are based on learning research; thus the probe will te...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
Lesson Plan
This probe is designed to elicit students’ ideas about changing the direction of motion in the absence of air. Many students will have seen movies or television shows in which spaceships turn by banking or using wing flaps. In outer space, where th...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
Lesson Plan
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about sound. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that sound is produced by vibrating matter. ...