8th Grade Resources

In this video, students will witness the destructive power of an earthquake and learn about a fascinating phenomenon called liquefaction. This...

In this assignment, students will open up a Google Doc, you can have it printed as well, and fill out a table of some very useful industrial ores...

This is a 5-minute video that does an excellent job talking about bats, their conservation, their feeding habits, their evolution, and their...

This is a documentary explaining the history just before the Great Depression occurred.  It does a good job showing actual footage and music from...

This is a fun video to help introduce or review the Presidents of the United States.

If you are teaching a unit on the skin or the epidermis, your students might be interested in viewing how tattoos stay permanent in your skin.  ...

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...

I show this volcanic eruption when trying to discuss the different types of eruptions.  This one is called a Vulcanian eruption.

This is the full speech by President John F. Kennedy as he addressed the nation about the Cuban Missile Crisis during the Cold War when Russia was...

Find out why and how people get motion sickness.

In this science video, we see how a mosquito behaves, a little bit about the history of mosquitoes, and the possible side effects from a mosquito'...

Just came upon this cool Educational TechTip. I have been sharing documents with my students for years and always having them create copies. This...

This video discusses how temperatures in lakes affect the flow of the lake's ecosystem.

Introducing the Cell Phone Writing Passages and Prompt - a fun and engaging way for students of all ages to practice their opinion writing skills...

This video examines the story surrounding the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan.

Learn how gypsum and selenite crystals got formed in the Great Crystal Cave found in Mexico.  The crystals are some of the largest ever discovered...

This is a great video that explores a brief history of President Thomas Jefferson and the history behind the Memorial.

I created this program to generate unlimited opportunities to create sentences using names, nouns, adjectives, and verbs.  Just click the "...

In this 3rd through 10th-grade lab, students will observe the formation of salt crystals. Students will also add food coloring to their dissolved...

This video discusses how there is a myth that the "undeveloped" countries are still having huge child mortality rates.  He demonstrates that the...

This video explores the majesty of some of the diverse landscapes in Arizona.

With this video you can easily start off a class on genetics or reproduction.  Simply propose the age old question, "Which came first, the chicken...

Here is a quick 8-minute video that talks about 3 man-made disasters that were all preventable.  The three disasters talked about are, Chernobyl...

This video clip explains and shows the events of Lee Harvey Oswald being shot by Jack “Ruby” Rubenstein after Oswald had been arrested for the...