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

This is a brief video to help explore some of America's greatest landmarks.

This is a 15 word blank spelling test paper handout.

Using colored pencils or crayons, students will read some Christmas puns and then identify nouns, verbs, pronouns, Adverbs, and Adjectives with...

This volcano video demonstrates and discusses how composite and shield volcanoes are created and describes their lava type.  The Ring of Fire and...

This is a great clip to open a discussion about conflict of character vs. society. 

This is a great video to introduce or review prefixes, suffixes, and roots when decoding a word.

This video is great for a discussion on scientific experimentation and the power of the mind.  The video describes 3 different scientific...

This NASA video demonstrates how scientists compare distances between the planets and the sun using the measurement system, Astronomical Units. ...

If you are teaching a lesson about or during the Olympics then this video might be suitable.  It talks ab little bit about what the medals are...

Here is a video that discusses all of the chemical reactions that occur when cooking a cookie.  Great video to show the science behind cooking.

Why does swiss cheese have holes?  I have to admit I never thought about it, but this video show how bacteria goes through processes that create...

This is the trailer to the movie the Rosa Parks Story with Angela Bassett. The full movie is a wonderful depiction of the era during the Civil...

This video explains the Amendments of the Bill of Rights.

Where did all the material found in Saturn's rings come from?  How did those rings form?  Find out the answer to those questions and share this...

This video explores the beginnings of the Red Scare including the HUAC hearings during the beginnings of the Cold War Era.

Students can either label or put the skeleton together in this online activity.  The better they do the higher their score.  They can practice it...

In this activity, students will engage in a topographic map exercise. When a student is finished they will understand what contour lines,...

Looking for a fun and educational way to teach your students about plant growth? Look no further than our Plant Writing Passages and Prompt! This...

This Study Jam video discusses animal adaptations and how animals use them for protection.  Natural Selection, traits, inherited behavior,...

When introducing your interjections to your language arts class, this video by Schoolhouse Rock would be a fun one to show.  This song will...

This is a great video that shows a general simulation of how the launch, orbiting, and re-entry worked for John Glenn as he beacme the first...

This is an excellent video about how the absence and reintroduction of wolves in Yellowstone affected the Yellowstone food web and even change the...

This video describes the philosophy and histories behind the foundations that helped form the Bill of Rights as well as references to the...

Egg drop competition instructions and material list. It contains follow up questions.