8th Grade Resources

Immerse yourself in a thought-provoking animated video that draws a captivating parallel between climate change and the timeless game of Tetris....

This is a great video that explores the life and culture of the New England Colonies.

This video explores the downfall of President Nixon’s Presidency because of the Watergate scandal.

This is a short summary of the story of Emmett Till that would help spark the Civil Rights Movement.

A worksheet for your students to practice Punnett Squares, deciding between heterozygous and homozygous, and describing the genotype and the...

Check out some anatomy of whales.  This video demonstrates how whales communicate under water.  The video is of a real scientists who delves into...

Mr. Edmond sings a good song about the difference between Mass and Weight.  He actually has a nice voice.  He holds up signs so that you can...

With this video, students will learn about how energy and matter get transferred through different organisms via the food chain.  Sun Energy,...

Here is a great video that introduces volcanoes.  It is very visual and the music fits.  This is the video I show to get students excited to learn...

In this activity students are going to find a small rock, decide what rock type it is, weight it, place it in a tumbler and then over a two week...

This is an animated video that describes how the Declaration of Independence came about.  This video also dispels a myth or two about its...

Is it possible to be really scared to death?  The answer is "Yes!"  This video discusses how heart failure can occur and other reasons for being...

Can you beat a partner in discovering all the factors.  If you don't have a partner, try beating the computer.  Students will learn how to...

During a leap year, this video would be great to show your students when the question arises, "Why do we have a leap year?"  This video discusses...

This scientific video from BBC is really neat.  It shows a few different types of fish that use luminescence to attract prey and obtain their food...

Check out this video that will give you the ins and outs of lactose and lactate.  The video discusses what it takes for a human to digest milk and...

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

Watch and learn how bats transmit diseases and viruses and why so many bats carry viruses.

If you are teaching physical science and have often tried to come up with a great explanation about why objects hit the ground at the same time if...

I show this video when discussing pyroclastic flows.  This is a pyroclastic flow that killed a few people in Japan a couple of years ago.  It is a...

You don't have to be on drugs or mentally ill, in order to hallucinate.  This video discusses the science behind hallucinations.

This is an edited version of the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami.  This video does a great job telling the story of the tsunami from the video of those...

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...

Sugar is blamed way too much for a child's extra energy.  Watch this video to see why science says it is not to be blamed.