8th Grade Resources

This is a great video to help introduce or review the purpose of conjunctions.

This document contains two passages comparing the advantages and disadvantages of young students owning a cell phone.  The second page contains a...

This video is a short explanation as to why the Constitution was created.

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...

This video shows President Nixon as he announces his resignation after Watergate in the 1970's.

This is a good video, yet kind of sad, about the use of Laika the dog as the first living organism to enter space during the Space Race of the...

Find out how many calories people need to eat per day.  The video discusses what calories actually are, how your body burns them, and the...

This video explores the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis between the U.S. (President John F. Kennedy) and Russia (Nikita Khrushchev) during the...

This is a good video to help introduce or reinforce differing physical and cultural regions within Arizona.

This video explains how swallowed air becomes a burp and sometimes a smelly fart.  It also describes why those two bodily functions can smell.

This is a fun propaganda film against the Japanese from the WWII era. (World War 2, WW2, World War II)

This is a great video that shows Apollo 11, orbiting the Moon, and the Lunar Module descending and landing on the Moon, and Neil Armstrong taking...

This is an older cartoon video on economics but does an excellent job explaining how the stock market works, using Oil Corporations as an example...

This video shows a man on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, losing $15,000 because he didn't under stand the concept of squares.  What is even...

I show this video during my unit on volcanoes when discussing the two Hawaiian volcano flow types, Pahoehoe and aa lavas.  It shows both very well...

This video explores the beginnings of the Red Scare including the HUAC hearings during the beginnings of the Cold War Era.

In this informative video, the question "Why do trees have rings?" is explored in detail. The presenter delves into the fascinating topic of tree...

This is a great video that can be used as an introduction or a simple review of the characteristics of life.

Get ready for a journey to the Earth's core with this fascinating found on EducationalResource.org....

This awesome video highlights two students who came up with a great invention for stopping ketchup from coming out all watery.  The video shows...

This video visually describes how cells use active and passive transport to get molecules into an individual cell. Osmosis, Dialysis, Facilitated...

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

In this activity, students will hone their observation, inference, and making conclusions skill by trying their best to use a dichotomous...

In this Study Jam video, students will learn about the water cycle.  The vocabulary used in the video is precipitation, evaporation, condensation...