The impact of designing and evaluating molecular animations on how well middle school students understand the particulate nature of matter.
"If middle school kids can understand this, then anyone can," Nirmal said.
But after spending time in the colorfully decorated halls and crowded classrooms of this hard-pressed middle school, a visitor understands quickly that for all the outside focus and controversy over the system's chief policy maker, life on the ground has its own dynamic and logic.
By middle school, students should understand that: Over a long time, matter is transferred from one organism to another repeatedly and between organisms and their physical environment.
Most American middle school students, though they understand what fractions represent, don't do so well when tested on their ability to change one fraction, like 4/3, to another, like 7/3, by adding or subtracting (many high school students bomb these tests, too).
In the shifting power dynamics of middle school girls, the former friend understood well that she who sneers first sneers best.
Middle school students can begin to understand that the future evolution of organisms is constrained by their evolutionary history.
The idea behind the research -- based on survey results taken over three years of 625 low-income NYC middle school students -- was to better understand how extracurricular activities can shield low-income youth from some of the perils of middle school.
I understand from my middle school daughter that her homeroom teacher made a "big deal" about it in class today.
Middle school children are old enough to understand that cannabis legality is also a social justice issue.
From the time I was a toddler through my middle school years, I simply could not understand the value of Shabbat in my life.
