8th Grade Resources

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

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

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

This TEDEd video discusses five parasites and how they affect the host's brain.  The parasites it discusses are the Gordian Worm, Rabies Virus,...

Quickly demonstrate to your students what multiple sclerosis is with this educational video.

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.  ...

This video answer the questions, "Why do joints pop and crack?."  In the video, they will discuss the anatomy of a joint, how it is used, and why...

This is one of the papers I have my students' parents fill out each year at the beginning of the school year.  This helps me know a little more...

Here is a very quick video that will quickly describe "What energy is."  It discusses chemical, nuclear, and dark energy.  

This video is great at giving a simple animation and description on how our body benefits from plants' photosynthesis. Stomata, Carbohydrates,...

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...

Prepare to be amazed and informed by this excellent animated video on the topic of tsunamis. Through the use of stunning visuals and easy-to-...

This video explores the story of the election for president of 1960 between Kennedy and Nixon.

This is a great clip to help introduce or briefly review elements of Japanese Internment Camps during WWII. (World War 2, WW2, World War II)

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

This video shows the hearings of Alger Hiss and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, supposed spies, during the Red Scare at the beginning of the Cold War...

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

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

Here is a catchy song for young students that discusses the 8 planets.  
 

In this Earth Science Lab, I have my students design an experiment that determines which sediment type is the most porous and which sediment type...

This is a fun and short informational video with some basic facts about President Abraham Lincoln, produced by Disney.

This is an inspirational story of a pilot (Colonel Gail "Hal" Halvorsen, Uncle Wiggly Wings) who began dropping candy by handkerchief parachutes...

I show this video when discussing the different types of volcanic eruptions.  This volcanic eruption style is a Hawaiian style.  The lava does a...

This is a great video to help introduce or review the division of Germany after WWII (WW2, World War 2, World War II). It describes the Communist...