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8th Grade Resources
Eighth Grade resources for teachers. Contains videos, worksheets, websites, and activities for students.
This video examines President Kennedy and events leading up to the building of the Berlin Wall during the Cold War and the events leading up to...
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...
If you are about to teach a lesson on black holes and the Roche Limit, this might be a fun science video to watch with your students.
This is a great video to help introduce using text eveidence to answer inferential questions. It also demonstrates the difference between literal...
This is a neat animate video that discusses the difference between poisons and venoms.
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...
Scientists have recently discovered an ancient lake bed on the planet Mars. This video gets into topics of geology such as erosion, deposition,...
This is a great video that explores the life, events, and death of President Abraham Lincoln., including the Lincoln Douglas Debates, the...
This is a fun video to tour the World and begin your exploration of the World. It names all the countries of the World.
This video clearly states what gene mutations are. The Amoeba Sisters discuss Sickle Cell Anemia, gene mutations, DNA transfer, meiosis,...
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...
This video explains the approach that JFK took to defuse the controversy of his being a Catholic running for President.
This video discusses the possibilities of humans using specific genes and traits and trying to predict intelligence of future babies. The video...
This is a great video that explores not only the Lincoln Memorial, but its history, and also the background story of President Lincoln himself.
This is an excellent video about how the absence and reintroduction of wolves in Yellowstone affected the Yellowstone food web and even change the...
I show this volcano video when discussing cinder cone volcanoes. Paricutin erupted in 1943 and erupted for 9 years afterward. It occurred on...
In this 3rd through 10th-grade lab, students will observe the formation of salt crystals. Students will also add food coloring to their dissolved...
This video explains how swallowed air becomes a burp and sometimes a smelly fart. It also describes why those two bodily functions can smell.
A hearty bowl of cereal gives you the energy to start your day, but how exactly did that energy make its way into your bowl? It all begins with...
What happens to an astronauts cells when they hang out too long in space? Also, find out other scientific experiments done on the ISS. How do...
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...