Correlated to state curriculum standards for grades 6–8
Explore middle school Science with engaging and varied teaching material, like this animation illustrating the effect of global warming on the habitat of polar bears. With over 140 bite-sized presentations, Boardworks gives you everything you need to teach exciting, inspirational lessons.
- 142 presentations covering Biology, Chemistry and Physics give you everything you need to teach middle school Science for grade 6 right through grade 8.
- The wealth of material contained in the resources helps you to explore and teach middle school science in detail.
Well-organized resources for whatever you're teaching
All presentations are logically structured and enhanced with a wide range of material to ensure you get the most out of your lessons. Typical slides, like this one about the effects of refraction and the Archer fish, combine the main points for teaching, clearly conveyed, with relevant illustrative material.
- The comprehensive interactive menu system makes it straightforward to find and select the material you want to teach, and easily incorporate it into your lesson plan.
- Accurate diagrams and topical illustrations supplement key facts and aid overall understanding of the subject.
Time saving and ready-to-teach
Boardworks lessons are ready-to-teach, saving you and your colleagues precious time. Interactive diagrams, like this one about human body systems, help explain complex processes and theories in an appealing and informative way.
- Interesting and varied interactives enhance lessons and motivate your students.
- Comprehensive summary activities aid and consolidate learning.
- Every presentation is kept to a manageable length, so that topics can be taught in focused, bite-sized chunks.
Inspiringly interactive
Embrace the interactive potential of your whiteboard and explore science in a unique, engaging and stimulating way. For example, introduce your class to the ways in which forces affect an object with the engaging example of a knight’s bow striking a shield.
- Use your classroom technology to facilitate class discussion and encourage and focus lively debates.
- Inspire your students with stimulating games, interactive graphs and thoughtful animations.
- Hundreds of interactive activities are embedded throughout the presentations.
A wealth of exciting ideas
Present important scientific ideas and theories in a visually appealing and easily recalled way. Clearly explain the history of ideas about the circulatory system, for example, with this engaging step-by-step timeline.
- Support and enhance hands-on learning with thought-provoking virtual experiments and animations.
- Simplify complex scientific theories with interactive diagrams and step-by-step simulations.
- Demonstrate dynamic processes in a unique, thorough and easily understood way.
Easy-to-use, flexible resources
With Boardworks Middle School Science, you can easily tailor the resources to the needs of your students. You can edit the text or the graphics on this slide, or you can even insert your own examples or information to make the resources your own.
- All presentations are created in PowerPoint for ease of use, versatility and editability.
- Presentations can be added to and enhanced with your own ideas and resources.
- Activities can be used flexibly, both to support your own teaching methods and to meet the different learning needs of your students.
