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

This Study Jam video does a great job demonstrating the differences between weather and climate.  It discusses how temperature and air pressure...

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

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...

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 video explains how swallowed air becomes a burp and sometimes a smelly fart.  It also describes why those two bodily functions can smell.

In this video pedestrians pedestrians in a park are asked why a hard drive
and a book sitting at the same temperature have a different...

This is a great video to introduce and explain Consumer Price Index within economics.

This video by the Amoeba Sisters does a great job describing what a...

Here is a video from 1982, when Robin Williams gave a great comedy performance about the United States flag.  Very funny and very patriotic.

This is a great video to explore a brief history of the Iwo Jima/WWII Memorial. (World War 2, WW2, World War 2)

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

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

This is a great video to introduce manifest destiny or moving west.

This is a great video to explain what unemployment rate means and how it is used as an economic indicator within economics.

This image was designed to demonstrate how sandstone ends up as gneiss, a metamorphic rock.  It follows the sequences of: sandstone, quartzite,...

Experience the awe-inspiring power of a strombolian eruption with this fascinating video found on ...

This is a 16-word word search with a weather theme.  Words contained in the word search are, hail, temperature, thunder, drought, precipitation,...

This clip explains the reasons and story of the case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas during the Civil Rights Movement.

This is a great video about the differences between a birds-eye and a human eye.  

This is a decent music video that does a pretty good job explaining DNA and its structure and bonding.

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

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 to explore the Nuremberg Trials after WWII. (World War 2, WW2, World War II) It has personal accounts from Walter Cronkite...

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