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Middle school scientists and mathematicians, and the instructors responsible for their education, sometimes need a little outside motivation to keep learning exciting. Middle school activities like the ones Education.com has produced below are perfect for both in-class and at-home study. Biology students can use sliced bread to explore how mold forms, budding physicists can use eggs to study gravity, and artists can turn tissue paper into stained glass windows.

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Make a Magnetic Spice Tin Pencil Holder

Help your fifth grader or middle school teenager transform spice tins into fridge magnets and pencil holders in this arts and crafts activity.

Create a Collagraph

Kids get creative as they experiment with fabrics and textures to create their very own collagraphs.

Make Sushi at Home!

Learn how to make sushi at home, and turn dinner into a social studies lesson for everyone.

Family Conversation Journal

Getting through to your tween or teen is a whole lot easier with a Family Journal that serves as an old-school, non-electronic form of communication.

Start a Kids' Book Club

Start a kids' reading club in your neighborhood to enhance your child's literacy and social skills.

Family Yearbook

This family yearbook makes a great keepsake that memorializes your year together. Make a family yearbook with your kid to celebrate the passing of a great year.

Take the plunge into handcrafting with this neat and tidy soap recipe. Here's how to create your own personalized soap.

Summer Memories Book Covers

Kids will learn about the five senses with this quick and easy art project to get them ready for school.

Introduction to Politics

Here's a list of suggestions for parents on how to whet your child's political appetite.

What Does It Matter?

Learn how matter transmits sound with a simple, hands-on experiment using sand, water and air.

This three-part debate book is designed to hold two conflicting points of view on an issue that concerns you, along with possible solutions.

Predict the Weather

Test your skills as a weather forecaster, and learn some science terms on the way!

Beat the Middle School Mumbles

Want to turn your child into an expert orator, but don't know how to rid him of the middle school mumbles? Try this activity to get your child to speak up!

Bake a Batch of Fractions!

With this activity, you'll be practicing adding and subtracting fractions, but the activity can be modified to refresh multiplication, division, and more.

Experiment with Magnet Magic

Is your child struggling with the principles of magnetism? Here's a fun activity to demonstrate polarity and understand the basic principles of magnetism.

Democracy For the Kids, By the Kids

To channel your child's revolutionary ambitions, introduce her to the political process, and encourage her to campaign for her cause!

Face-Off! An Integer Card Game

This fun card game is a great way to help your child increase his speed and accuracy when solving integer problems.

Put Together a Procedure!

With this activity, not only will you be experimenting with giving accurate information, you'll also teach your child how to write good scientific procedures.

Here's a fun activity to reinforce the physics concept of stored energy for your middle schooler.

For some math concepts, doing the math itself is easy. The hard part is helping your child remember which formula to use for which term!

Circle Measurements

Here's a quick, kid-friendly intro to some geometry terms, and a fail-safe way to calculate circumference, no matter what!

Teacher for a Day

Here's a fun activity that will have your child teaching you for once, while you find out exactly what she is learning in school.

Forms of Energy for Kids

This exploration of different types of energy will help young minds appreciate and observe thermal, kinetic, mechanical, and other forms of energy.

Compare and Contrast: Working With Narrative Texts

Put your kid to the test and have him compare and contrast elements in a narrative text by identifying how characters and situations are alike and different.

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