8th Grade Earth Science Lesson Plans Resources
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Summer Reading (Grades 6-8)
Variety of genres and interesting activities for all reading levels Help your students retain the reading skills the…Subjects:Reading and LiteratureScienceEarth Science -
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Recycled Art
Students will use found and recycled objects to make art. Then, they will evaluate their artwork and how their group…SubjectsScienceEarth ScienceRecycling -
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Cause and Effect Lesson
How to teach cause and effect analysis effectively Use this resource to help your students understand the effects of…Subjects:Natural DisastersEarth ScienceScience -
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How Can Different Polymers Be Identified?
One word: Plastics Students study six types of plastic and make comparisons between them based on their physical and…SubjectsScienceEarth ScienceScience Projects -
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Dinosaur Detectives
In this lesson, students learn about amphibian evolution by comparing fossils with a modern-day skeleton. This is a…SubjectsAnimals (Zoology)BiologyScience -
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Celsius and Fahrenheit Conversions Made Simple
Through simple addition, subtraction, and multiplication, convert Celsius temperature to Fahrenheit (and vice versa).SubjectsScienceEarth ScienceMathematics -
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How Much Oxygen Is in the Air?
Teach your pupils about the atmosphere and chemical reactions with this printable science activity. Pupils use hand…SubjectsScienceEarth ScienceAtmosphere and Air -
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Why Care About Amphibian Population Decline and Malformations?
In this lesson, students learn why preservation of wildlife is important.SubjectsRain ForestsAnimals (Zoology)Oil Spills & -
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Mystery of the Malformed Frogs Lesson Plan
In this lesson students learn how volunteers, including themselves, can aid in conservation.SubjectsAnimals (Zoology)Oil Spills &Biology -
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Which Materials Insulate Best Against Wind Chill?
Introduce your pupils to the phenomena of wind chill with this printable science activity. Pupils test the insulation of…SubjectsScienceEarth ScienceAtmosphere and Air -
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What Factors Most Affect Evaporation?
Improve pupils' knowledge of precipitation with this printable science activity. Pupils test various factors to…SubjectsScienceEarth ScienceAtmosphere and Air -
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Interactions and Energy in Ecosystems
This spring-themed lesson supplements a unit on plants, ecosystems, or biomes for middle school science. Mapped to NGSS…Subjects:Earth SciencePlants and Botany -
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Which Is More Acidic, Snow or Rain?
Using this hands-on science project, familiarize pupils with the pH scale by having them use pH paper to monitor the…SubjectsScienceChemistryEarth Science -
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Do Clouds Tell Us What Weather Is Coming?
By observing cloud conditions over a set period of time, pupils discover a link between cloud conditions and weather…SubjectsScienceEarth ScienceWeather -
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Air Quality and the Weather -- Teacher Section
Try a teacher's guide that leads you through a unit that has students constructing and analyzing temperature maps,…Subjects:ScienceEarth ScienceAtmosphere and Air -
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Visibility: Teacher Section
A guide to help prepare for a lesson on the meteorological conditions necessary for fog and clouds to form. See the…Subjects:ScienceEarth ScienceWeather -
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Content Under Pressure
An article covering several ways to learn about air pressure.Subjects:Atmosphere and AirEarth ScienceScience -
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What Is the Weather in Your City?
Students practice using the World Wide Web as they research local and international weather on the Internet and complete…Subjects:ScienceEarth ScienceWeather -
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The Geomagnetic Field
Use this lesson plan to teach students about the magnetic field surrounding the Earth.Subjects:ScienceEarth Science -
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Tolkien's Middle-earth Unit 6: Treebeard's Lament
Examine the price of progress in The Lord of the Rings, Book Three, with the lesson planning resources in this printable…Subjects:LiteratureTeaching Tolkien – Lesson Planning ResourcesPlants and Botany
