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

Kepler is a camera that looks for exoplanets.  This video discusses the processes behind finding exoplanets.  It also demonstrates how math is...

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

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

This is a TEDed lesson on how our noses smell and detect odor. This is a cartoonized video with a great story track.  This science video goes...

In this Earth Science Lab, students will design and experiment that will help them determine the densities of different rocks and minerals. This...

If you are just getting ready to teach a lesson on DNA, you might want to use this video to introduce the concept.  It does a good job explaining...

This video explores why some people get allergies more often then others. What are allergies anyway? Did you know that people with good hygiene...

There are many misconceptions about evolution.  One of the largest misconceptions is that we evolved directly from an ape-like creature.  This...

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...

This is a fun propaganda cartoon that is a great review of dictators, people, and events of WWII. (World War 2, WW2, World War II, HItler,...

This is a short tribute to the legacy of Rosa Parks and her role in the Civil Rights Movement.

This video demonstrates how sugar gives a "high" to your brain, causing you to want to eat more. Carbohydrates, glucose, fructose, sucrose,...

Find out the answer to why bug bites itch.  Did you know that most itching bites are all in the head?

This is a great video overview with interesting facts about President George Washington produced by Disney.

This is a quick summary of the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis between the U.S. (President John F. Kennedy) and Russia (Nikita Khrushchev)...

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

This is a great video to help introduce or review interjections in grammar. (The video does include a boy getting a shot in the rear.)

Students will have fun researching 5 unique mammals that are funny-looking and just plain strange. Students will discover some interesting facts...

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 teaches the science behind getting nervous and how it involves adrenaline. 

Why do we blush?  This is actually a scientific mystery.  This video explores some of the hypothesis out there.

In this lab I have students observe what happens to water, which represents air, warms up and what happens to water as it cools down. Using a hot...

This video takes you on a journey to find out how a tree can get water all the way to its top when so many other scientific factors and laws...

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...