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High interest learning resources for the Middle School student - fun, challenging and varied.
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High interest learning resources for the Middle School student - fun, challenging and varied.
English language arts
Fun with Malapropism
What's a Malaprop?
"It is the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect, as in, for example, “dance a flamingo ” (instead of flamenco )."
This pack has more than 170 Malaprops that are fun, challenging and great for learning about correct English. Many of the Malaprops include common mistakes that English speakers make.
Translating what the speaker was meaning needs some hard thinking in some cases.
An answer key is provided at the end.
The Art of Exaggeration
Using exaggeration or hyperbole can be one of easiest ways of getting a laugh from your audience.
These simple but challenging worksheets help the Middle School student identify humourous exaggeration techniques and develop some strategies to write their own comedy lines.
Great fun and yet another part of my humour series.
About 1 week's duration - answer key included - total of 24 pages in all.
More Google Earth Worksheets
Use Google Earth to complete these self-directed worksheets. Easy to use and very educational.
A wide range of topics covered, including:
- Religions of the world
- Capital cities
- Deserts
- Trip planning
- Cryptic Clues to solve
- Volcanoes
- Rivers
- The Roman Empire
- Around the World in 80 Days
and more
Enjoy
30 pages
Note that only sample worksheets shown here, but full pack of 30 pages will be available for download once purchased.
Duration - 1 week
What Makes You Laugh **POSTER SERIES**
12 humor types are illustrated in this poster series. The posters are A3 size and can be used to identify each of the humor types that are typically used.
Refer to the posters to identify which humor type is being used in conversation, in literature, or by the scallywag in your class.
The posters identify the name of the humor type, includes a definition and an example along with an original illustration.
12 A3 posters - samples are shown here.
Storyteller's Activity Book For Teachers
Telling stories with a purpose is just about the most important skill an educational leader needs.
Stories create an emotional connection with the audience.
This activity book is for teachers or education leaders in any setting. It guides you through the steps to structure stories with a message.
The activity book also includes a bonus page of tips for teachers on how to improve their storytelling to kids.
If you have any aspirations to enhance your educational leadership aspirations then improving your storytelling skills will make a difference.
The 22 pages in this Activity Book will help you make that difference.
How to be a Super Speaker - Manual
Fearless Public Speaking for Kids
More than 40 pages of essential information for Middle School students wanting to improve their public speaking skills.
From writing the speech to constructing a speech, and delivering a speech with fun, quotes and impact - it’s all here presented in a fun and inspirational way.
Learning how to speak in front of an audience is one of the most important skills that any student should leave school with, and this manual will help your students to practise the right things.
After all, public speaking is all about practice.
I’d be disappointed if anyone does not feel that this pack suits their needs. If it doesn’t, please get in touch and your money will be returned - no issue at all.
35 Speechwriting Techniques ****INFO SHEET****
This product consists of two A3 Information Sheets listing 35 Speechwriting techniques (including examples of each) that the professional speechwriter uses.
Download and print out the pdf’s and students can reference them when writing a speech.
Speechwriting and public speaking are important learning experiences in my language classes - hope you agree.
Students entering speaking competitions only need to included a few of these techniques and they will impress any judge.
I’d be disappointed if anyone does not feel that this download suits. If it’s not suitable, please get in touch and your money will be returned - no issue at all.
Speak Without Stress
10 simple actions that anyone can take to overcome the fear of public speaking.
Overcoming that fear helps people stand out at work, take charge at family events and be upfront at any school celebration.
Everyone will be thankful that it is you standing there speaking. Your life will be changed when you have the confidence to speak to any audience at any time.
Download this 38 page manual of tips, actions and templates that will help you speak with confidence.
I’d be disappointed if anyone does not feel that this pack suits their needs. If it doesn’t, please get in touch and your money will be returned - no issue at all.
The Gratitude Journal ** INFO SHEET **
This Single A3 Info Sheet encourages the use of a Gratitude Journal
Includes:
purpose of a journal
some starting ideas
reasons for creating a #gratitudeattitude
keyword list that will help to start writing
I’d be disappointed if anyone does not feel that this download suits. If it’s not suitable, please get in touch and your money will be returned - no issue at all.
How to Have a Meeting
One of the most common events that will happen to anybody who enters work life, will be to participate in meetings.
It is important for Middle School students to start learning how to conduct themselves at meetings, and to learn about meeting procedures.
This pack of worksheets includes activities on:
creating an agenda
note taking
being a chairperson
taking minutes
proposing a motion
Have fun conducting your own class meetings once these worksheets have been completed.
I’d be really disappointed if anyone is not happy with these packs, so if that’s you, please get back to me and your money will be very happily refunded. I’d really like some feedback too, so all comments most welcome.
Essential Tips for Writing a Speech
25 Plus pages of worksheets for students to practice these tips and then compile them all in to a speech for any purpose. Includes an answer key.
A good speech is like a good play, movie, or song. It is a form of entertainment. And like all entertainment, if it doesn’t entertain, then the feedback is immediate.
There are not many classes that teach students how to write a speech, however there are many occasions in later life when we need to give a speech.
These tips will help your students to develop an effective speech. The tips aren’t the normal ones (like, ‘make sure your speech has a beginning, a middle and an ending’). They are from many years of personal experience. I’ve written speeches for all occasions and a variety of professions.
Negative versus Positive Humour
It is important for any student to understand the difference between the two types of humour - one that hurts and offends, compared to the type that makes you feel good, energised and relaxed, and there are no victims that feel bad.
These ten worksheets focus on helping Middle School students identify the difference between the types of humour.
The worksheets analyse the Sarcastic Wit, the Nit Wit, and the Clowning Wit.
I have found that teaching humour in the classroom is such fun - of course - and it can have relevance to many parts of the curriculum.
Answer key included
Sarcasm - Worksheets & Movie
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” - Groucho Marx
“The problem with common sense is that most people are morons.” - The Sarcasm Society
Sarcasm can be witty, but in the school environment it can be hurting. Teach your students to recognise sarcasm and to be careful with its use.
This bundle includes a great introductory Full Quality narrated slidedeck that introduces the topic of sarcasm.
The slidedeck includes:
- samples from Groucho Marx,
- how sarcasm can hurt others,
- some samples for students to test their sarcasm detector, and
- some examples for sarcastic body language.
The bundle also includes a starter pack of humour worksheets centred around the topic of Sarcasm.
Topics include:
- Irony v Sarcasm
- Sarcasm Detector
- Sarcasm as Verbal Bullying
- Groucho Marx and his form of Sarcasm
- Comparing Sarcasm with being Sincere
- Plotting types of Sarcasm on the Nasty v Nice scale, and the Funny v not Funny scale
… and more
Great fun for the classroom, but this pack also relates to the topic of emotional bullying and how some words that seem funny to others can impact a victim’s feelings.
How to Tell a Joke
Telling a joke to a group of people is a real art - and no-one ever teaches us how to do it! These worksheets explore some key aspects of joke telling and they can be great fun in any middle classroom.
I suggest setting the ground rules with the class right at the beginning so that any inappropriate material is not used as a joke… but that never really happened in any of the lessons that I conducted with my students, so hopefully it is a non-issue for your class as well.
This pack includes 12 pages of worksheets plus an answer key showing some suggested answers to the questions about jokes.
Headings in the pack include:
- Defining a joke
- Putting on your humor hat
- What is the best joke you have ever heard?
- Know your audience
- Joke types
- How to write your own joke
- How to deliver a joke
I really enjoy working with humor in my classes and I have about a dozen packs of worksheets that worked in my class in my TES store.
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I’d be really disappointed if anyone is not happy with these packs, so if that’s you, please get back to me and your money will be very happily refunded. I’d really like some feedback too, so all comments most welcome.
How To Interview a School Visitor
From time to time a special visitor comes to the school and your class might be called on to ask them a question. How often is that question very ordinary, may be a bit embarrassing, and sometimes it may not really excite the visitor?
I have used these worksheets to prepare my students to come up with some more interesting questions to ask the visitor to the class or the school.
My students sometimes also need to visit a local politician or business person as part of a class project, and I use these worksheets to again prepare them for the visit.
I find these type of interpersonal communication skills so important for later life and that’s why my store is full of activities around public speaking, using humor and interviewing techniques.
I hope you find this pack useful to start the topic of interviewing.
Bundle
Google Earth Bumper Volume **VALUE**
100 plus pages of self-directing activities for the Middle School students.
Google Earth Worksheets
More than 50 pages of Blackline Masters for upper primary/lower secondary students.
All worksheet activities are completed with the fabulous Google Earth application which is free to download on to your PC or Mac from http://earth.google.com/. Activities require minimum teacher direction and provide maximum learning for the student.
• Constellation conundrum
• Landmarks
• Cruise around the world
• Help!! Endangered species
• The Galapagos Islands
• Continents
• Google Moon
• The Earth's Grid System
• Make the World a Better Place
• Mission to Mars
• Majestic Mountains
• My Google Earth Autobiography
• Mysterious Locations
• National Parks
• Ocean Explorer
• Ocean Investigations
• The Olympics
• The ABCs of Google Earth
• Bonjour, Mon Ami
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Layers Reference and Activity Booklet
Google Earth has over 50 layers of information and all are explained in this booklet, along with student activities designed to allow the student to explore each of the layers and track down the type of fascinating information that can be found on each layer.
Layers are also given a value rating so that teachers can go directly to the most valuable layer with the most educational information.
The booklet includes definitions and activities around the following Google Earth layers:
• Borders and Labels
• Photos
• 3D Buildings
• Ocean
• Weather
• Gallery
• Global Awareness
• and more
Key points of interest are highlighted and quirky little tips are included.
This is a true reference book for any student or teacher who works with Google Earth.
_______________________________________________________How to Zoom and Fly
A slide show that instructs users on how to use these basic functions of Zooming and Flying around Google Earth.
Download this Powerpoint slide set to show your students how to use and practice the zooming and flying functions. Easy to follow - students could review them at their own pace.
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Longitude and Latitude Worksheets
Lesson Plan with worksheets for the Secondary classroom that teaches the principles of Longitude and Latitude using the popular Google Earth.
The worksheets are simple and self-guiding. There is an answer sheet at the end of the booklet.
The lesson takes about 3 weeks to complete and there are additional worksheets that the early finishers can work on to further extend their knowledge. Objectives included.
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More Google Earth Worksheets
32 pages of printable worksheets for the Upper Primary student. Clear instructions, clear print and totally self-guiding
Use Google Earth to complete these self-directed worksheets. Easy to use and very educational.
A wide range of topics covered, including:
- Religions of the world
- Capital cities
- Deserts
- Trip planning and more
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Google Earth Task Cards
46 Task Cards with 46 activities for students to explore Google Earth.
Activities include:
- measuring distance with ruler function
- calculating area
- using longitude and latitude
- mastering Google Earth tools and applications
- understanding continents, countries
- exploring Google Sky, Moon and Mars
- zooming in to significant landmarks
- investigative work on the ground
- and much more.
Comprehensive Answer Key included.
Print out cards on to firm board - easy two-cut template to create four cards per page.
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See more here:
Middle School Resources
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Learn more about the author at
Malcom Brown
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100% Money Back guarantee - if there is anything at all about this pack that disappoints or was not as expected, please get back to me and your investment will be completely refunded - no issue at all.
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Pranks, Hoaxes & Scams
Great fun pack that investigates the types of Pranks, Hoaxes and Scams that are carried out in a variety of circumstances - on the web, in the classroom, in the news and so on.
Students identify the differences and get an understanding that this is not a new thing - it all started with Jonathon Swift (Gulliver Travels).
These pen and paper worksheets explore this type of humor and discusses the impact it might have on the victim. I really enjoy teaching about humor in the classroom and this is another of my packs that my classes have been working on.
I also use the topic to cover off some ‘bullying’ issues and make sure that all students understand that a prank can often have a negative effect on someone else - and so needs to be avoided.
The pack is also great for introducing the topic of email scams and how they can impact people who are not wary.
28 pages including a comprehensive Answer Key
I’d be really disappointed if anyone is not happy with these packs, so if that’s you, please get back to me and your money will be very happily refunded. I’d really like some feedback too, so all comments most welcome.
Graffiti Activity Pack
Some great investigative worksheets on the cross-curriculum topic of Graffiti. Here I have used student interest in the topic to explore various cross-curriculum areas such as math, social science, debate, visual arts, and history.
I find the cross curriculum nature of these units provide so many learning opportunities.
The packs covers the following topics:
- Street Artists such as Banksy
- School policy on dealing with graffiti
- Investigation on graffiti removal products - reading a chart
- Experimenting in Street Art
- Art v Vandalism arguments
- Creating a Tag
- History of Graffiti
- Graffiti Poetry Response
This is NOT a course in Graffiti, but rather a stimulus pack of activities that uses various skills to investigate the topic of Graffiti. Suitable to Middle Schools Students in both interest and ability level.
23 pages in total
Answer key included.
Mastering Persuasive Speech Writing (Rubric included)
Mastering Persuasive Speech Writing (and Delivery)
Transform your students into confident, articulate speakers with this persuasive speech writing unit. Designed specifically for grades 6-8, this ready-to-use package makes creating a persuasive speech engaging, structured, and achievable for every student.
Includes:
More than 20 pages of student worksheets
Clear, age-appropriate teaching objectives
Professional rubric for fair assessment
Step-by-step speechwriting guide
Student-friendly handouts and worksheets
Speech writing is an essential life skill.
Perfect for:
Language Arts Teachers
Speech and Debate Coaches
ELA Departments
Literacy Specialists
Student Leadership Advisors