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Middle School Resources
 * Grade(s) || Content Area || URL || Description ||
 * 6-8 || Lang Arts-Spelling || http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=48 || This lesson on Shared Spelling Strategies helps phonological awareness and visual recall. ||
 * 1-12 || Social Sudies || http://americanhistory.si.edu/ourstoryinhistory/tryonline/buildsodhouse.html || This game teaches the problems pioneers faced while building a sod house. ||
 * 6-12 || Lang Arts-Literature || http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/graffiti/index.html || This interactive encourages students to create literary graffiti corresponding to a literary piece they have read. ||
 * K-8 || Science-Biology || http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/ythfacts/bugfun/papermch.htm || This page contains an a craft activity in which students create insect models using paper ||
 * 5-12 || Literature- Biography || http://readwritethink.org/materials/bio_cube/ || Bio-Cube is a useful summarizing tool that helps students identify and list key elements about a person whose biography or autobiography they have just read. It can also be used as a prewriting activity for student autobiographies. ||
 * 5-12 || Literature-Biography || http://readwritethink.org/materials/trading_cards/ || The interactive Character Trading Cards tool is a fun and useful way for students to explore a character in a book that they are reading or as a prewriting exercise when creating characters for original stories. ||
 * 6-12 || Social Studies || http://www.lewis-clark.org/ || A detailed synopsis of the expedition by historian Harry Fritz is enhanced by photographs, interactive maps, audio files, and illustrations from the expedition journals. ||
 * 6-8 || Literature, Culture, Art, History, Geography || http://edsitement.neh.gov/reference_shelf.asp || Students research and conduct "live interviews" with ancient athletes. ||
 * 6-8 || Geography || http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/hall/index.html || Xpedition Hall: interactive “museum” that takes you on geography journeys. ||
 * 6-8 || History-Indo Americans || http://americanhistory.si.edu/educators/download.cfm?dlkey=174 || Tracking the Buffalo: Decipher the imagery in a buffalo hide painting to understand the buffalo’s role in the lives of American Indians who live on the northern plains. ||
 * 6-8 || History- Civil War || http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/resources/education.asp || Select a mystery character. Then find the objects that hold the key to their identity. Are you up for a challenge? ||
 * 6-8 || Economics || http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM695&page=teacher || Lemonade for sale! Students will become online entrepreneurs, taking risks and changing their production method to increase their profit while running a lemonade stand. ||
 * 6-8 || Literature || http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=1032 || Students explore the motivations of characters in a Shakespeare play; synthesize information to make predictions and formulate opinions. They explore how their own cultural perceptions influence their understanding. ||
 * All || Language Arts || http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/postcard/ || Postcard Creator ||
 * 6-8 || Science || http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/robots/techlab/main_flash_build.shtml || This tool, created by Science NetLinks, lets students experience the various dynamics of building robots. ||
 * All || Literature || http://www.readwritethink.org/beyondtheclassroom/summer/podcastsvideos/videos/Making-Stapleless_detail.asp || stapleless book ||
 * 6-8 || All || http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/em321/flash/popupActivity1.html || Students can create their own online surveys ||