8th Grade

8th Grade Resources

Please take advantage of the grade level optional resources found on this page. The resources were designed to help keep your child engaged and focused on learning. Feel free to look at other grade levels for additional activities. We will update links and resources as they become available. The sample schedule below is a guide to help parents organize the enrichment activities.


Por favor tome ventaja de los recursos por nivel de grado opcionales que se encuentran en esta página. Los recursos fueron diseñados para ayudar a mantener a su hijo/a involucrado y enfocado en el aprendizaje. Siéntase libre de mirar otros niveles de grado para actividades adicionales. Actualizaremos los enlaces y recursos tan pronto estén disponibles. El horario de ejemplo abajo es una guía para ayudar a los padres a organizar actividades de enriquecimiento.

8th Grade Published Schedule.pdf
8th Published Spanish Enrichment Schedule.pdf

Math

Number Sense

Estimation 180 is a collection of 180(+) estimation challenges that you will engage in number concepts, including relative size, comparing and ordering numbers, and benchmarks. Challenge yourself to use mental math when determining quantities. Or apply spatial reasoning when estimating.

Challenging math problems where you will consider the relationship between numbers to find a solution.

Math Concepts

Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom.

YouCubed tasks/activites/games are designed to help students understand how manth works while making connections to real world application. For access, scroll down and click on the activity's title. For optional printable components and/or further explanations, click on "Get Handout".

Explore on the "Tasks & More" tab to see Math connections to art and Math mindset inspired videos.


Math Fun

DreamBox continuously assesses students to present them with targeted lessons. Our Intelligent Adaptive Learning™ technology tracks each student interaction and evaluates the strategies used to solve problems.

Math Chimp connects learners to simple grade level related games, videos and worksheets.

Math Resources

DreamBox continuously assesses students to present them with targeted lessons. Our Intelligent Adaptive Learning™ technology tracks each student interaction and evaluates the strategies used to solve problems.

Over 20 different Math 8 topics designed to keep students' math skills strong. Examples, practice, instructional videos, and more.

Interactive practice with 353 discrete grade level math skills. Students/Parents may select from various categories (i.e. functions, problem solving, Pythagorean Theorem, etc). Examples are provided for additional support. Please note; the practice IXL Math provides is primarily procedural practice. If available at home, students can use manipulatives to help support their mathematical thinking as they reason through problems.

This course has tons of interactivity included in every lesson. There are 10 units with individual lessons within. Some lessons include videos, and all include interactives. Even the review questions are interactive, with helpful feedback to let you know why your answers are correct or incorrect. Every lesson also has specifically chosen 'Related Modalities' that help you learn the concept in different ways.

Language Arts

92 High interest short reading selections with comprehension and thought-provoking questions. Includes student directions/guidance.

94 High interest short reading selections with comprehension and thought-provoking questions. Includes student directions/guidance.

Text Messages is a monthly podcast providing families, educators, out-of-school practitioners, and tutors reading recommendations they can pass along to teen readers. Each episode will feature in-depth recommendations of titles that will engage and excite teen readers.

A free online interactive poetry community to receive feedback on your poetry and offer similar to others. It's a poet's dream!

This is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education.

Current events and stories tailor-made for classroom use. Stories are both student-friendly and can be accessed in different formats by reading level.

20* days of articles and stories, videos

Free literacy support by grade-level for all levels of readers. Learning activities include pre-reading questions, high-interest articles, comprehension and thought-provoking questions for students, vocabulary development activities, and more. Simply use the user name and password provided on the landing page.

PE/Exercise

Science

This collection aligns with state and/or national science, mathematics and technology educational standards, and uses engineering as the vehicle to integrate science and mathematics concepts for K-12 students.

Create 3D models with a free student account on Tinkercad.

The Daily DE features a grade-band appropriate learning activity for every day of the week. From digital interactives to virtual field trips to fun science experiments and more, these daily activities are great for keeping the learning going at home! Download the Daily DE for your child’s grade band below.

The Daily DE features a grade-band appropriate learning activity for every day of the week. From digital interactives to virtual field trips to fun science experiments and more, these daily activities are great for keeping the learning going at home! Download the Daily DE for your child’s grade band below.

WGBH in collaboration with NASA presents digital media resources you can use to teach topics in K–12 Earth and Space Science. These free resources are organized into four grade bands. Each resource emphasizes engaging students in phenomena related to core ideas and science and engineering practices of the Next Generation Science Standards.

IXL Science offers several NGSS grade level,science skills for students to explore.

Videos, games which focus on 8th grade science topics.

Create 3D models with a free student account on Tinkercad.

Social Science

iCivic engages learners in general civic learning.

Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom.

Brain Pop offers engaging and informative videos related to various Social Studies topics.

The Library of Congress offers a large selection of historical related text & video collections (sample topics: The Great Depression, Rosa Parks, The Civil War, Immigration, etc). Families can navigate the website to find topics of interest.

IXL offers dozens of grade-level social studies skills to explore and learn. Hover your mouse over any skill name to preview it, then click to practice.

Newsela is a database of current events stories tailor-made for classroom use. Indexed by broad theme (e.g. War and Peace, Arts, Science, Health, Law, Money), stories are both student-friendly and can be accessed in different formats by reading level. Use Newsela to differentiate nonfiction reading.

"Our Story" stories and activities are designed to help children and adults enjoy exploring history together through children’s literature, everyday objects, and hands-on activities. Each OurStory module examines a moment in American history through a work of historical fiction and related activities and includes a reading guide for parents and caregivers.

Explore news and articles about the world's cultures.

Electives

Art based games for all students

Produced by PBS digital, this channel—which is hosted by art curator Sarah Green—asks the big questions about art and tackles some of the most common critiques of art in general and of contemporary art in particular.

Free typing lessons. Students can practice their typing skills.

Practice various types of coding activities. Various platforms, hours of fun.

Chrome Music Lab is a website that makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments.

Great source for problem solving, and critical thinking. Online breakout rooms on various topics.

Dual Immersion

ELA

Spanish Read Aloud books for students.

Small compilation of stories read aloud for students in Spanish. Students can read along with the text while they listen.

Science

Math

Social Studies

A collection of nonfiction articles and current events in Spanish for kids in grades K–12.