Eighth Grade resources for teachers. Contains videos, worksheets, websites, and activities for students.

This is a short clip to help introduce or reinforce global supply and demand in economics.

This web tool can allow teachers to build images that represent fractions of circles/pies or polygons.  It is simple to use.  Just say how many...

This worksheet contains two passages on how plants grow and tips for growing your own plants.  It contains the writing prompt, "How do plants grow...

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

In this EdTech Earth Science activity, students will use Google Drawing to create an image that demonstrates the three main types of earthquake...

Why do feet smell?  Why do some feet have strange food odors?  This video does a good job of explaining how bacteria on your body produce those...

Discover the haunting Survivor Account of Kristallnacht, a pivotal event that unfolded during the early stages of World War II and marked a...

Everyone has an Adam's Apple.  This video discusses why a man's Adam's Apple is so prominent.

This is a pretty cool 3d animation comparing the different depths of water bodies all the way down to the Marianas Trench. This would be a cool...

This is a short clip of Martin Luther King Jr.’s last speech before he was assassinated, known as the Mountain Top speech during the Civil Rights...

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

Did you know that horseshoe crabs (they aren't really crabs) are used in the medical field?  Find out how the medical field is using these amazing...

This resource would be a great introduction to your unit on cells.  It is an animation of many different types of cells and some of their...

In this Google Drawing activity, students will create a concept map using the following words: Earth Science, geology, waves, currents, astronomy...

In this biology video, students will grasp a better understanding of how cells divide through mitosis and meiosis, but the emphasis is on how...

This video does an incredible job of discussing how bacteria are overcoming our human-created anti-bacteria.  It discusses the different ways in...

Here is a fun poem created to show all of the elements on the periodic table.  Much of the poem demonstrates where the different names came from...

Students will be engaged in hands-on experimentation and discover the principles of motion and collision through a series of captivating lab...

Demonstrate how magma is more buoyant than the surrounding earth material.  Volcanoes erupt simply because the melted rock rises up through cracks...

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

This worksheet contains the writing prompt, "Do you think schools should have a dress code policy that requires students to wear uniforms? Why or...

This video explains the Amendments of the Bill of Rights.

This NASA educational video discusses the Aurora Borealis/Northern Lights.

Students have a difficult time actually understanding how big or small planets are or distances to and from planets compared to other terrestrial...