This lesson is intended as an introduction to Newton's Laws of Motion for middle school students.  Students will explore the laws of motion with hands-on activities at 8 stations with a group of peers.  Then, once they are familiar with the laws of motion, they will make claims as to which law of motion each station best demonstrated.  As an assessment of their knowledge, students will create a short Google Slides presentation with GIFs they made to represent and explain each law of motion in a way that is unique to them.Image attribution: "Newton's Apple" by Alexander Borek is licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0.

Writing gets personal when students interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.

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The Atomic Theory proposed that all elements are made of atoms. It stated that all atoms are indivisible and cannot be destroyed.

The Greek philosopher Democritus believed that if you continue to cut up an object such as a coin you eventually end up with a complete, uncuttable piece of matter. He called this particle an atom.

The fundamental filtering units in the kidneys are nephrons. Each kidney contains over one million nephrons. Most of the fluid is returned or reabsorbed by the bloodstream along with other substances needed by the body.

The small intestine is a hollow tube that is only about 2.5 centimeters in diameter, but it stretches about 7 meters in length. The chemical digestion of carbohydrates and proteins is completed in the small intestine.

One of the most important ways the body excretes wastes is via specialized structures in the urinary system.

Urine passes out the kidneys to the bladder through small tubes called ureters. From time to time urine is emptied from the bladder through the urethra.

This reading provides information regarding women in the history of labor. Women were among the first workers to bear the hardships of the industrial revolution, and among the first to unionize.

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Students will observe/investigate the movement of water through the different stages of the water cycle and determine what drives this cycle. Students are asked to think about what precipitation is then watch a video about why the water cycle is important. They observe a simple version of the water cycle and take some notes. Students are asked what stages require solar radiation, which require water to give off heat, and which are driven by the force of gravity. The teacher does several different demonstrations while students fill in a sheet that has the students recording their observations of different processes in the water cycle and how energy is involved. Students build their understanding of the water cycle through the different models that are shown or experienced. The culminating activity has them create their own model of the water cycle from the viewpoint of a water molecule including the processes, the energy involved, and gravity.

This resource is a research review exploring the relationship between Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Differentiated Instruction (DI). Abstract: A lot of confusion between UDL and DI exists, especially on how they exactly relate to each other. Consequently, a systematic review was conducted to identify all specific types of interrelationships between both pedagogical models in the literature. In total, 27 peer-reviewed articles were included. Three conceptual interpretations of the UDL and DI interrelationship were identified.