8th Grade Resources

In this science lab, students will gain a pretty good understanding of what mass, volume, and density are. They will digitally change the volume...

This is a fun video to help introduce or review the Presidents of the United States.

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

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

In this lab, you will be exploring the organisms present in pond water. Add leaves and grasses to your pond water. Students will observe and...

This is a patriotic video that shows why we should teach our students to be more patriotic!

This is a pretty cool 3d animation comparing the different depths of water bodies all the way down to the Marianas Trench. This would be a cool...

This video demonstrates how to create a geyser that you can show to your students. I have used this demonstration for multiple levels of science....

Find out what the Asteroid belt is.  Did you know that it isn't like what you might see in the movies?  There is much more space in the Asteroid...

In this Earth Science Lab, I have my students design an experiment that determines which sediment type is the most porous and which sediment type...

This video discusses a range of astronomy topics.  The main theme of it though is, how likely planets are to being habitable.  Planets need to be...

This TEDed video shows just how big the ocean is.  It does a great job at putting the sheer size of the ocean into perspective.

This is the full recording of the “I have a dream speech” given by Martin Luther King Jr. from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the Civil...

This video examines the story surrounding the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan.

In this Study Jam video, students will get a better understanding of biomes.  Vocabulary that is discussed is biome, ecosystem, habitat, climate,...

In this activity, students will hone their observation, inference, and making conclusions skill by trying their best to use a dichotomous...

This video isn't so much about Thor's hammer as it is about the density of dying stars.  I am only assuming that Vsauce, the video creator, did...

Sugar is blamed way too much for a child's extra energy.  Watch this video to see why science says it is not to be blamed.

This video explores some of the basic state symbols for Arizona.

This is a really short video about how to become an entrepreneur and discusses what an entrepreneur is in economics.

This is a fun, short informational video with basic facts about President John Adams.

The cool tool allows teachers to generate custom number lines with ease.  You can change the line settings to different types of number lines like...

Here is a quick tribute to Rosalind Franklin the lady scientist who helped discover the double-helix shape of DNA.

In this assignment, students will explore 25 features found in North and South America. They will circle, outline, and label specific locations on...