This is a great video on economics to help introduce needs and wants to students. It gives a real life example that kids can relate to.
8th Grade Resources
Eighth Grade resources for teachers. Contains videos, worksheets, websites, and activities for students.
For those teachers who use publisher to create worksheets and activities for their classroom, you may be interested in this...
This video shows highlights of President John F. Kennedy's (JFK) challenge to go to the moon speech at Rice University as part of the Space Race...
In this activity, students will engage in a topographic map exercise. When a student is finished they will understand what contour lines,...
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...
This is a great clip to demonstrate and open a discussion about conflict: man vs. society as shown through the movie "Rudy."
This video explores the story of the election for president of 1960 between Kennedy and Nixon.
Find out what solar flares are and how scientists are completing studies on them. Also part of this video discusses how scientists are trying to...
In this student self-guided Earth Science activity, students will read about and work their way through the different techniques used in Relative...
Here is a quick tribute to Rosalind Franklin the lady scientist who helped discover the double-helix shape of DNA.
You don't have to be on drugs or mentally ill, in order to hallucinate. This video discusses the science behind hallucinations.
In this tutorial you will see how easy it is to add a Google drawing into a Google doc.
Engage your students in a hands-on exploration of water erosion with this worksheet This activity and reading passage is designed to help students...
With this fraction model tool, teachers can custom create both bar fractions and pie fractions. It is quite customizable. You can change the...
In this one-day activity students will read and learn about the different types of landforms that are out there. They will then, as groups, create...
Demonstrate how magma is more buoyant than the surrounding earth material. Volcanoes erupt simply because the melted rock rises up through cracks...
Here is a quick video demonstrating how the Lunar Landing Module worked when landing and taking off from the moon.
This is an edited version of a documentary. I made it more classroom friendly by editing out the blood, dead bodies, and swearing as well as...
In this informative video, Earth Science students will delve into the fascinating world of plate tectonics. The video covers a wide range of...
There are many misconceptions about evolution. One of the largest misconceptions is that we evolved directly from an ape-like creature. This...
This is a really interesting video about Henry Ford. Most of the film come from the Henry Ford film collection so the film is authentic. There...
I have actually been to the Arenal Volcano. It is a beautiful site. The volcano erupted sending down a pyroclastic cloud killing several...