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

A limnic eruption occurs when a poisonous gas gets "belched" out of the bottom of a lake where it was building up pressure.  This video discusses...

In this lab I have students observe what happens to water, which represents air, warms up and what happens to water as it cools down. Using a hot...

This video explores President John F. Kennedy (JFK) and the failed Bay of Pigs incident in Cuba during the Cold War Era.

Do your students wonder why we get old?  This quick video will demonstrate the process and genetics behind aging.

This is a gfeat clip to help explores the sit in demonstrations by the Greensboro Four and others that occurred at the Woolworth's in Greensboro...

In this activity students are going to find a small rock, decide what rock type it is, weight it, place it in a tumbler and then over a two week...

This video demonstrates a science experiment on the formation of calderas.  The idea is great.  Either show the video or demonstrate the formation...

This is a great video that explores a brief history of the Pentagon.

This is a great tribute video to heros. It introduces Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., Flight 93, 9-11, Sandy Hook, and even the Granite...

Discover the fascinating world of seismology with this educational video found on EducationalResource.org...

This is a quick timeline overview of the events of WWII.

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 is a fun video that can be used as an introduction to the language, grammar, and a host of other general English topics.

This web tool can allow teachers to build images that represent fractions of circles/pies or polygons.  It is simple to use.  Just say how many...

This is a fantastic video that takes the viewer on a detailed and informative tour of the White House Grounds where the President of the United...

This is a fun, short informational video with basic facts about President John Adams.

Find out why and how people get motion sickness.

This is a great video to introduce or review prefixes, suffixes, and roots when decoding a word.

This is a fun propaganda cartoon that is a great review of dictators, people, and events of WWII. (World War 2, WW2, World War II, HItler,...

Here is a great video that introduces volcanoes.  It is very visual and the music fits.  This is the video I show to get students excited to learn...

This is a great video to help introduce the idea of bartering, trade, and money in economics.

This video is going to be hilarious to show your students?  The joke, "Silent but Violent" when referring to gas or farts is the basis of the...

In this earth science lab, students will flip M&Ms/Skittles to help them gain a better understanding as to what absolute dating is. Students...

In this video the question as to whether there is actually gravity in space is answered.  The video discusses that astronauts are not actually...