This video clearly states what gene mutations are. The Amoeba Sisters discuss Sickle Cell Anemia, gene mutations, DNA transfer, meiosis,...
8th Grade Resources
Eighth Grade resources for teachers. Contains videos, worksheets, websites, and activities for students.
This is a short clip about James Meredith and his quest to enter the University of Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement including...
In this Google Drawing activity, students will create a concept map using the following words: Earth Science, geology, waves, currents, astronomy...
This is a good video to help introduce or reinforce differing physical and cultural regions within Arizona.
Find out how glacier melt can actually raise the sea levels of the ocean. Thermal expansion is also explained in this science video.
This is a three-point rubric for informative writing. It includes grading criteria for the topic sentence, organization, details, conclusion,...
This is an introduction to population distributions. It talks about the three different population distributions: aggregated, uniform, and...
This is a comical video that demonstrates the importance of using grammar properly. If you don't, you might just get arrested.
How well can you or your students complete a simple mental math question under pressure? This video shows a young woman losing out on the first...
Find out why the sky is blue in this SciShow video. The video discusses the way light reflects colors and the fact that you really have to be...
This website gives teachers the ability to quickly create random numbers that can be used for adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, order of...
This lab will only work if you have Java on your computers. It should work fine on Windows machines.
In this digital Phet...
During my unit on volcanoes, I have the students do some research on some famous volcanoes. Mt. Vesuvius is one. This video shows a quick tour...
If you are a science teacher and don't have a water rocket lab, you should begin. This experiment is the highlight of our year. This is a doc...
I designed this 5 paragraph expository text writing organizer to help my 3rd graders have space to restate the prompt, come up with three big...
In this self-guided activity, students will gain an understanding of how to interpret basic to advanced weather station models. They will read...
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. ...
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.
Experience an authentic space shuttle launch with this video, and make sure to play it loud with a high-quality sound system so that your students...
Immerse yourself in a thought-provoking animated video that draws a captivating parallel between climate change and the timeless game of Tetris....
Enhance your fossil unit with this concise and engaging video that explores the intriguing process of fossil extraction from rock. Witness the...
In this captivating video, the measurement of temperatures on Earth takes center stage as the presenter delves into the scientific breakthroughs...
Students will find vocabulary that deals with metamorphosis. I use this when teaching 3rd-graders about how caterpillars turn into butterflies....
This animated video discusses the factors that possibly led to Earth having water. After all, having water on a planet is extremely rare so where...