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

This music video can bring some joy to your lesson about light, gravity, waves, and the big bang as they listen to a parody of the Lion King song...

This video explains the development and rise of McCarthyism, and specifically the role of Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare during the...

This video does a great job discussing and showing the processes of coastal beach and rock formations.  The video also discusses a little bit...

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

I show this video during my unit on volcanoes when discussing the two Hawaiian volcano flow types, Pahoehoe and aa lavas.  It shows both very well...

I built my own laser light sound visualizer. Using a tone generator and multiple tones you can create some awesome light patterns. We showed this...

This video shows one of President Eisenhower’s campaign commercials.

This is a TEDed video that demonstrates how cancer-fighting drugs kill cancer and why the human body ends up with some side effects.

This is an amazing video that takes the viewer on a fantastic voyage to observe the majesty of the nature of the Earth. This video can be used to...

This animated and narrated video demonstrates how a flu virus exits one person and enters another.  Then it visually describes how the virus will...

This video answers the misconception that blood is blue when it is in your veins.  This video discusses the different hues of red in humans as...

This "It's OK to be Smart" video discusses the human nose and its awesome ability to sense smells.  Please note that this video does talk about...

Try this word problem with your students  to see if they can solve the word problem given in this movie, "Little Big League."  This video is sure...

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 is a 5-minute video that does an excellent job talking about bats, their conservation, their feeding habits, their evolution, and their...

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

In this video students will learn about volume and capacity.  Students will be shown how to decompose milliliters into liters.  The video talks...

If you are teaching a unit on the skin or the epidermis, your students might be interested in viewing how tattoos stay permanent in your skin.  ...

An excellent video that talks about healthy dieting tips and excersize.

This educational video discusses why our bodies need water and answers how much we should drink every day.

This video examines President Richard M. Nixon’s plans to “limit” yet “expand” America’s role in the Vietnam conflict.

This is a short quality summary of the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis between President John F. Kennedy and Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev...

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...

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...