8th Grade Science Study Guides

Wanting to use cK-12's online textbook to teach life science? These worksheets go along with the free online textbook. These engaging and thorough worksheets are perfect for homeschools or teachers that want to add some enrichment or in-seat work for sub days!

Included are 9 pages of resources going over sections 1.1 - 1.10 of the cK-12 Middle School Life Science online textbook. Perfect for homeschool!

The unit is divided into 4 lessons, each with a separate page for students to use to as they are reading.

Also includes:

1. Biblical connection - Bible verses that highlight God's creation and science
2. Hands-on activity - lab or other hands-on experiment that can be done at home
3. Enrichment activity - critical thinking activity for students that need to be enriched
4. Assessment - 10 multiple choice questions to assess learning of the unit (with key included)

NGSS Middle School

Being an introduction to life science, this unit covers a wide range of standards, but does not cover any specific standards thoroughly

• MS-LS2-2: Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems.

Wanting to use cK-12's online textbook to teach life science? These worksheets go along with the free online textbook. These engaging and thorough worksheets are perfect for homeschools or teachers that want to add some enrichment or in-seat work for sub days!

Included are 15 pages of resources going over sections 2.1 - 2.24 of the cK-12 Middle School Life Science online textbook. Perfect for homeschool!

The unit is divided into 9 lessons, each with a separate page for students to use to as they are reading. Each page includes a lesson summary and questions to answer while reading. Perfect to use while reading or as a study guide!

Topics included:

1. Biochemistry
2. Basic Unit of Life: The Cell
3. Cellular Organization
4. Transport of Materials
5. Photosynthesis
6. Cellular Respiration
7. Cellular Energy
8. Cell Cycle
9. Meiosis and Reproduction

Also includes:

1. Biblical connection - Bible verses that highlight God's creation and science
2. Hands-on activity - lab or other hands-on experiment that can be done at home
3. Enrichment activity - critical thinking activity for students that need to be enriched
4. Assessment - 10 multiple choice questions to assess learning of the unit (with key included)
5. Another assessment serving as checkpoint half way through the lesson

NGSS Middle School

• MS-LS1-1: Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cell; either one cell or many different numbers and types of cells
• MS-LS1-2: Develop and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and ways the parts of cells contribute to the function
• MS-LS1-6: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for the role of photosynthesis in the cycling of matter and flow of energy into and out of organisms
• MS-LS1-7: Develop a model to describe how food is rearranged through chemical reactions forming new molecules that support growth and/or release energy as this matter moves through an organisms
• MS-LS2-3: Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem
• MS-LS3-2: Develop and use a model to describe why asexual reproduction results in offspring with identical genetic information and sexual reproduction results in offspring with genetic variation