Grade 8 teaching resources

Students compare an oral account and a written newsletter account of a community cleanup.

Students compare the Middle Ages and Renaissance through worldview, social structure, technology, art, literature, education, and daily life.

This three-page worksheet introduces contrasting historical narratives surrounding Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples Day.

Students read informational passages about bats and birds, answer comprehension questions, and compare their similarities and differences.

This six-page practice pack helps students identify comparison and contrast signal words, organize similarities and differences, and analyze paired informational texts.

This worksheet introduces students to Connecticut's military contributions, including submarine building in Groton, the National Guard, the Coast Guard Academy, and veterans.

This five-page worksheet explores how Eli Whitney's cotton gin and Samuel Colt's revolver transformed manufacturing and Connecticut industry.

Students practice conjugating five winter-themed French verbs—skier, patiner, geler, neiger, and glisser—in the present, passé composé, and futur simple.

Students practice conjugating the French verb faire and using it in common winter weather expressions.

This six-page student guide helps learners identify interpersonal conflicts, recognize emotions, and describe core problems through classroom and playground scenarios.

This six-page activity pack uses school garden scenarios to teach students how to identify conflicts, understand different perspectives, and develop fair solutions.

This four-page science activity introduces composting, organic and inorganic materials, compost ingredients, and safety rules.

Students review their own writing for gender bias, ableist language, cultural insensitivity, stereotyping, and exclusionary phrasing.

Students compare Canadian and American football using informational text, text features, and factual details about gameplay.

Students learn definition, example, contrast, and inference context clues through a futuristic technology theme.

Students compare consumer culture in the Roaring Twenties and the digital 2020s using primary sources, contextual information, and guided analysis questions.

This four-page worksheet teaches students to give kind, specific, and actionable feedback on artwork using the sandwich method: compliment, suggestion, and encouragement.

This four-page resource introduces the Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning framework for constructing scientific arguments.

Students analyze a First Peoples story by identifying physical, spiritual, and resource-based connections to land.

This four-page math activity introduces exchange rates through guided examples, conversion practice, and a vacation budgeting challenge.

Students investigate friction and motion using a curling-inspired STEM lab.

Students investigate how temperature affects solubility by creating crystal snowflakes from a supersaturated solution.

Students read about Manitoba celebrations including Folklorama and Festival du Voyageur.

This four-page worksheet teaches students to calculate credit card cash-back rewards, convert percentages to decimals, and compare reward rates.

Students design a unique ghost character and plan a descriptive paragraph about its Halloween disguise.

Guide students through planning creative narratives using genre-based choice boards, story starters, character and setting prompts, conflict development, and plot mapping.

This four-page worksheet guides students through understanding and writing an artist statement.

Students design a room or home floor plan using a consistent scale, architectural symbols, measurements, and labeled dimensions.

Students create one tree divided into four sections to represent winter, spring, summer, and fall.

This three-page guide helps students identify exclusion and marginalization, brainstorm inclusive initiatives, and create an action plan.

Students brainstorm autumn vocabulary using their senses, explore poetic devices, and collect descriptive words.

Students interview a family member, take notes, and organize the story’s characters, setting, and plot.

Students learn how to create a woodworking bill of materials by identifying parts, dimensions, quantities, materials, and estimated costs.

This four-page worksheet helps students reflect on their study routines, organization, time management, study environment, and procrastination habits.

Students learn how plants use sunlight, water, and chlorophyll to make food through a guided comic-strip activity.

Students plan and write a magical adventure using story elements including characters, setting, conflict, rising action, climax, and resolution.

Students learn persuasive vocabulary and sensory language by creating an engaging real estate listing for a gingerbread house.

This concise writing resource guides students through crafting persuasive advocacy letters about issues affecting marginalized groups.

This three-page resource teaches students the five parts of a friendly letter: heading, greeting, body, closing, and signature.

Students learn how to recognize strong and weak passwords through examples, self-assessment, rating activities, and a password-security game.

This three-page worksheet explores the courage, patriotism, and achievements of the Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II.

This six-page reading practice pack helps students use synonyms, antonyms, definitions, examples, and paragraph clues to determine unfamiliar word meanings.

This three-page worksheet explores how boiling, steaming, and grilling affect nutrient retention in vegetables.

This four-page science resource introduces convection currents and explains how rising, cooling air contributes to low-pressure systems, clouds, and precipitation.

This four-page French worksheet teaches students to describe family members using vocabulary and gender-agreement rules for adjectives.

Students learn French adjectives for describing food, including sweet, salty, healthy, and delicious.

Students learn French clothing and color vocabulary while practicing sentences with “Il porte,” “Elle porte,” and “Je porte.” Activities include picture descriptions, personal writing, a fashion drawi

Students learn about Dover Air Force Base, the Delaware National Guard, the U.S.