8th Grade Resources

This video provides a glimpse into the preparation and recovery steps for the launch of Alan Shepard, the first American in space during the Cold...

This is a great video to examine how a lightning bolt is formed and travels.

This is a bio feature of the Rosa Parks story during the Civil Rights Movement.

In this lab, you will be exploring the organisms present in pond water. Add leaves and grasses to your pond water. Students will observe and...

In this video, students will see what your body converts fat too when it is burning fat.  Your students will be surprised as to where your fat...

This website is great.  You can create a near limitless sets of configurable math worksheets. The worksheets have multiple variables and all...

In this earth science lab, students will flip M&Ms/Skittles to help them gain a better understanding as to what absolute dating is. Students...

This is a great video to share in with your students.  The video explores some scientific evidence that plants can learn and can remember.  But...

This science lab can be used in any of the science disciplines because it is going to help students learn how to read a meter tape. Students will...

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 is a long list of Aesop's fables.  Most of them have a modern day version of the fable as well.  Use the fables to teach students how to...

This is a simple number line make that allows teachers to generate custom number lines  Below are some examples of number lines that can be...

Learn about pain and what humans create to numb it.  This video explains how your brain knows when pain has occurred.  It talks about rare cases...

This is an assignment I give my students before they actually take their mineral identification test. In this activity, the minerals have already...

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 NASA video describes what the sun is and what it is made out of. 
Part of the discussion is about sun spots and solar flares.  They do...

This is a cute retelling of the events of the Continental Congress on the road to independence at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. It could...

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

When you are teaching a unit on Astronomy, inevitably you are going to get into a discussion with students on the possibility of life outside of...

Here is a quick video animation that demonstrates how Phagocytosis gets rid of bacteria from in the body.  

What can you do with Geography…This video gives some examples of jobs using Geography.

I do this convection currents demonstration when discussing how air moves. This can be used as well when discussing volcanoes, mantle convection,...

This is a great video to help introduce or explore some basics of the Nazis on trial during the Nuremberg Trials after WWII. (World War 2, WW2,...

Have you ever wondered why dogs pant?  This video would be great to show your students when you are talking about animal adaptations and how their...