Whatever their grade level, students can participate in an activity to honor the courage and sacrifices made by veterans and serving members of the armed forces.
There is a large range of projects your middle school students can participate in.
However, we have collected the 15 best Veterans Day projects that are ideal for middle school students to try today.
This writing prompt will be suitable for any kind of soldier, but it can be modified for a veteran. With middle school pupils, this practice is fantastic for increasing vocabulary.
Final drafts can be created digitally by students, who can then print them out to put in the corridors, give to veterans, or turn into a class book.
Middle schoolers will create a biographical poem about a soldier. This project offers direction on what should be included in each line of the poem.
Allowing kids to interview an American soldier is a fantastic approach to engage them in conversation and help them learn more about Veterans Day.
Bring veterans of the armed forces to your classroom or institution, and encourage your pupils to engage with them.
This is a great opportunity to introduce middle school students to Veterans Day. This project allows them to hear from real veterans what life was like for them.
You could even ask students to go home and interview a veteran in their family.
Invite students to bring a photo of a family member who served in the military, to put onto a bulletin board or available wall space.
Put the images inside a transparent plastic sleeve to safeguard them. Please remind students not to bring photos that are valuable to them, in case something occurs to the display.
The students can design the board themselves, and also include important quotes from the veterans.
If your middle school students love to bake, then baking something to give to a veteran is a great project.
Bake and deliver cakes to a home for veterans, or create some cookies to be sent over to some current serving troops.
This is an easy project that is very enjoyable for everyone involved, but the veterans will enjoy the treat. The baked goods can be decorated with Stars and Stripes to feel even more patriotic.
Get in touch with a local charity or organization to ask about how you can help out veterans near you.
The best way to do this is by creating a care package that you deliver. These packages can contain various items, but The Military Wife and Mom offers you a list of items that you may want to include in your packages.
These packages are simple to create, and contain very common objects. Each middle school student could either create their own care package.
Otherwise, they may be asked to bring in particular items for multiple boxes to be created in each class.
There are a lot of songs and poems out there that your students can learn. Thus, not why teach them a song that they will then have to perform in either assembly or in front of a crowd.
In addition to this, you could even get your students to create their own song. Or you could get them to create their own verse, which will all come together to create one song at the end.
There are a lot of possibilities, which allows your students to explore their creativity.
Students can collaborate to make their own alphabet books, or make use of this one or another comparable alphabet book as a template.
They should focus on writing a book that explores a variety of topics related to veterans, including the theme of veterans or soldiers.
This allows the students to use the knowledge they have learned and apply it to their own ABC book. Furthermore, they can also incorporate and draw images to support each letter they are creating.
This is a book your youngsters will cherish and be proud of.
The favorite veteran project is similar to the interview for a veteran project. Instead, this time, middle schoolers are asked to write a couple of paragraphs about their favorite veteran.
This could be anyone from the past or present. It is encouraged for students to speak with a veteran that they know or are aware of.
Students should conduct research and interviews if necessary. The writing should center on the veteran’s life, and what was life for them during and after their time in service.
It is another great way for students to appreciate what these veterans have gone through.
We have another poppy craft that your students will enjoy completing. This time it consists of painting coffee filters red and gluing buttons to the center of the poppies.
This is a really simple craft for students of all ages to complete. Ask your students to create a large amount of these poppies to be used as decorations around the classroom or school. Or they can be given to other people as gifts.
Depending on their size, these poppies could be transformed into pins. Additionally, your students could also create stems with pipe cleaners to create a patriotic bunch of flowers to add to a vase.
Final Thoughts
When it comes to Veterans Day, there are a lot of projects that are suitable for middle school students to complete. This ranges from poppy crafts, writing a letter to a veteran or even interviewing a veteran.
There are lots of projects to complete, which allows your middle school students to gain a better understanding of veterans days and the significance it has.
We have offered you 15 of the best projects for your middle school students to consider trying today.
Hi, my name is Helena Waters and I was a teacher for 40 years before retiring last year.
During my time as a teacher I dedicated the majority of it to making classrooms as fun as possible, with educational parties, fun activities, and low cost entertainment that made the children excited about learning.
I taught children of all ages, from preschoolers to high school students. Now, with the pandemic having uprooted everything that children once knew about school and learning, I think that the need for my ideas is bigger than ever.
That is why I created School Sparks, a place in which I can write down and share all of my ideas on how to get students excited about going to school again. I hope that you’ll find some useful within a school setting, even at home too!
