8th Grade Resources

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

This is a visually appealing and dramatic video that introduces your students to the study of biomes.  This is a great video to show as you get...

Have you ever wondered whether or not ketchup was considered a liquid or a solid.  After all it can take a lot to get ketchup out of a bottle. ...

This is a great video clip to help explain the George Kennan's proposed policy containment of Soviet style communism at the end of World War II (...

This is a short clip about James Meredith and his quest to enter the University of Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement including...

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

This video is awesome.  It discusses why it would be impossible for Godzilla to exist.  It talks about all of the largest animals to ever exists...

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 is a really short video about how to become an entrepreneur and discusses what an entrepreneur is in economics.

This is a random three-digit subtraction generator that is Smartboard friendly, with big buttons. Click the reset values button and the program...

An excellent video that briefly describes what motion sickness is and what is causing it.

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

This "Stated Clearly" video discusses what genes actually are.  This video does an excellent job breaking down and demonstrating what genes...

This is a great to clip to help introduce or review how Plessy Vs. Ferguson and the idea of separate but equal and segregation impacted the Civil...

This Study Jam video discusses animal adaptations and how animals use them for protection.  Natural Selection, traits, inherited behavior,...

I use this digital geoboard with my 3rd grade students when teaching shapes.  I have students do their best to create, 2d shapes like triangles,...

This is a great video to help demonstrate and explain how local governments can make decisions for themselves and how it is sometimes better than...

Have you ever wondered what those packets that say "don't eat" on them?  You know those packets found in shoe boxes, jerky packages, and leather...

Here is a handout to give students when they are about to do a science experiment.  It will help them focus on the procedure of the scientific...

Steve Spangler demonstrates the power behind friction using two notebooks.  This can also be done using your textbooks.  Variable to the...

This is a great video clip to introduce or start a discussion about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr - MLK.

Generate equivalent expressions using two additive properties. This video focuses on using the associative and commutative properties of addition...

This video shows the moment when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986. This event would ground the U.S. space shuttle program for almost...

This image was designed to demonstrate how sandstone ends up as gneiss, a metamorphic rock.  It follows the sequences of: sandstone, quartzite,...