Eighth Grade resources for teachers. Contains videos, worksheets, websites, and activities for students.

This video explains the beginning of the United States involvement in the Vietnam Conflict including President Lyndon B. Johnson's role.

This is a great video to show during your unit on adaptations and evolutionary changes.  This video demonstrates how sharks have evolved over time...

I do this convection currents demonstration when discussing how air moves. This can be used as well when discussing volcanoes, mantle convection,...

In this video pedestrians pedestrians in a park are asked why a hard drive
and a book sitting at the same temperature have a different...

Watch and learn how bats transmit diseases and viruses and why so many bats carry viruses.

This SciShow video discusses what truth serum is, how it was made, by chemistry, and the historical applications of it.

MinuteEarth, a youtube channel demonstrates how a river goes from straight to meandering. ...

Here is a quick video demonstrating how the Lunar Landing Module worked when landing and taking off from the moon.

This is a great to clip to help introduce or review how Plessy Vs. Ferguson and the idea of separate but equal and segregation impacted the Civil...

This is a great video overview with interesting facts about President Franklin D. Roosevelt, produced by Disney. Includes items like the Great...

Have you ever wondered where the heat inside the Earth comes from? Look no further than this fascinating video found on...

This engaging video series offers a fun and quick way to introduce basic economic concepts to students. The series is broken up into several short...

Find out why the sky is blue in this SciShow video.  The video discusses the way light reflects colors and the fact that you really have to be...

This video explores why our body craves food so much that we are willing to over eat until we are beyond full.

This is a three-point rubric for informative writing. It includes grading criteria for the topic sentence, organization, details, conclusion,...

This is a great video summary of WWI that can be used as a review for a WWI Unit.

People hear talk all the time about the Debt Limit and how we need or don't need to raise it. This video does an excellent job explaining many...

In this activity, students will engage in a topographic map exercise. When a student is finished they will understand what contour lines,...

This educational video explains the five main parts of evolution in simple, easy-to-understand terms. The video covers population effects, non-...

This is a great video to help introduce or review adjectives.

This is an edited version of the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami.  This video does a great job telling the story of the tsunami from the video of those...

This is an awesome video demonstrating quantities of food that equal 200 calories.  The video goes through the science behind a calorie and show...

Survivor stories from Kristallnacht (Night of broken crystal or glass) from the USC Shoah Foundation offer a great first-hand account of the...

Scientists have recently discovered an ancient lake bed on the planet Mars.  This video gets into topics of geology such as erosion, deposition,...