Less than $5 8th Grade Science Worksheets (by date, oldest first)

Explore the fascinating world of plant growth with my comprehensive writing prompts and note-taking sheets on the plant life cycle.  Designed for middle to high school students, these educational resources provide engaging activities and structured note-taking templates to enhance understanding and retention of key concepts.  From seed germination to flowering and seed dispersal, each stage of the plant life cycle is covered in detail, encouraging curiosity and scientific inquiry.  Ideal for classroom use or individual study, these sheets support a hands-on learning approach that makes science fun and accessible.

These writing prompts would be perfectly paired with the Plant Life Cycle Full Unit Study:

Comprehensive Plant Life Cycle Unit Study

Please also check out my other Plant and Fungi Life Cycle resources:

FREE Plant & Fungi Life Cycle - Reading Passages, Q & A, and Note-taking Pages

Comprehensive Fungi Life Cycle Unit Study

Comprehensive Plant and Fungi Life Cycle Unit Study Bundle

Explore the fascinating world of reptiles with this FREE, engaging educational resource.  Perfect for upper middle to high school students, this freebie includes a comprehensive reading passage on reptiles, along with thoughtfully crafted questions that challenge students to deepen their understanding of these remarkable creatures. Use this resource as a stand-alone activity or as a supplement to your existing curriculum on biology, ecology, or zoology.

Dive into the fascinating world of amphibians with this comprehensive introduction!  This FREEBIE provides an engaging reading passage that covers key topics like the characteristics, habitats, survival strategies, and reproduction of amphibians.  Perfect for upper middle to high school students, this resource offers a glimpse into the full unit study.  It’s an ideal tool for teachers looking to enhance their science lessons with high-quality, content-rich materials.

Dive into the intriguing world of fungi with our detailed writing prompts and note-taking sheets on the fungi life cycle. Perfect for students of all ages, these educational resources offer engaging activities and structured note-taking templates to enhance understanding of fungi development. From spore formation to fruiting bodies, each stage of the fungi life cycle is meticulously covered, fostering curiosity and scientific exploration. Ideal for classroom use or individual study, these sheets support a hands-on learning approach, making the study of fungi both fun and informative.

These writing prompts would be perfectly paired with the Fungi Life Cycle Full Unit Study:
Comprehensive Fungi Life Cycle Unit Study

Please also check out my other Plant and Fungi Life Cycle resources:

FREE Plant & Fungi Life Cycle - Reading Passages, Q & A, and Note-taking Pages

Comprehensive Plant Life Cycle Unit Study

Comprehensive Plant and Fungi Life Cycle Unit Study Bundle

Are you searching for a unique and engaging way to teach kids about the water cycle? Our Water Cycle Flexagon Craft offers a dynamic and hands-on approach to learning this essential environmental process. This printable flexagon activity allows children to cut, print, and fold their own flexagon, a fun, interactive tool that visually demonstrates the stages of the water cycle—evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection. By manipulating the flexagon, kids can explore how water moves through its continuous cycle in a creative and memorable way.

Perfect for science lessons, environmental education, homeschooling, or at-home learning, this flexagon craft makes understanding the water cycle both enjoyable and interactive. Kids will love the tactile experience of crafting and using their flexagon, enhancing their grasp of how water circulates through the environment.

What’s Included in the Water Cycle Flexagon Pack:

• Printable Flexagon Templates: Detailed templates for each stage of the water cycle, ready to print and assemble.
• Instructional Guide: Easy-to-follow instructions for cutting, folding, and constructing the flexagon.
• Illustrative Graphics: Visuals for evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection stages to aid understanding.
• Educational Content: Brief descriptions of each water cycle stage included on the flexagon.

Dive into the dynamic process of the water cycle with our Water Cycle Flexagon Craft, and let your kids discover the continuous journey of water through a creative and interactive activity!

IN ADDITION, this resource includes a helpful tip sheet about "Child Development and Play Activities." Through this resource, parents will gain practical insights into how different types of play contribute to their child's overall development. The information sheet provides simple and engaging ideas for fostering cognitive, physical, social, and emotional growth through play. By incorporating these activities, young learners can develop essential skills while enjoying the fun and creativity that play brings to their everyday lives.

Are you searching for an engaging and educational tool to help your children or students understand the complex structure of the human heart? Our Heart Anatomy Foldout Craft is designed specifically to simplify learning about the cardiovascular system, making it an ideal resource for homeschoolers and classroom environments alike.

Here’s why this detailed craft is a must-have for budding biologists and future doctors:

• Detailed Anatomical Representation: This foldout provides a comprehensive overview of the heart, including heart chambers, atria, ventricles, valves, septum, blood vessels, coronary arteries, and the pulmonary artery and vein.
• Hands-On Learning Experience: By building the foldout, students can visually and tactically explore the various parts of the heart, enhancing their understanding through interactive learning.
• Educational Benefits: Aids in teaching complex concepts such as blood flow, heart functions, and cardiovascular health in a digestible and memorable way.
• Highly Versatile: Perfect for students of varying ages and educational levels, from elementary through high school, adapting to different depth of detail as needed.
• Ready-to-Use Format: Comes in a ready-to-print format, allowing for immediate use in both homeschool and traditional classroom settings.

Introduce your students to the intricacies of heart anatomy with our Heart Anatomy Foldout Craft. It’s a powerful visual tool that promotes a deeper understanding of human biology and encourages a hands-on approach to learning!

IN ADDITION, this resource includes a helpful tip sheet about "Child Development and Play Activities." Through this resource, parents will gain practical insights into how different types of play contribute to their child's overall development. The information sheet provides simple and engaging ideas for fostering cognitive, physical, social, and emotional growth through play. By incorporating these activities, young learners can develop essential skills while enjoying the fun and creativity that play brings to their everyday lives.

Printable PDF and a digital version are included in this distance learning ready activity. Vocabulary activity/graphic organizer helps students see side by side the similarities and differences between the 6 simple machines. Use as a supplement to resources/information you have given or a start for students to do their own research. Print version has a simple tinyurl link for students to see more information about the topic. The resource is included with the digital link for online/digital learners!

Distance learning?

• No problem! This activity now includes Google Slides! Ready to go, no prep needed from you!

Three Forms of Use Included

1. Printable PDF
2. Google Slides
3. Easel Activity

This graphic organizer activity about classifying metals, non-metals and metalloids is low prep and flexible for student needs. Use as a traditional graphic organizer or allow students to use the cut and sort option.

Vocabulary covered: metal, non-metal, metalloid, periodic table of elements, physical property, luster, brittle, malleability, insulator, conductor and semi conductor.

This Resource Contains:

• Resource materials in color, black and white as well as digital for ease of use.
• Blank Graphic Organizer
• Cut and Sort Option
• Teacher Key/Guide

Printable PDF & Digital Versions are included in this distance learning ready activity which consists of 13 percent error problems to solve.

Important Information

Not all boxes are used in the maze to avoid students from just figuring out the correct route. Students will have to correctly solve 10 problems to find their way through the maze.

Distance learning?

• No problem! This activity now includes Google Slides & Easel by TeachShare digital options!

Three Forms of Use Included

1. Printable PDF
2. Google Slides
3. Easel by TeachShare

Printable PDF and a digital version are included in this distance learning ready activity. Two versions are included where students solve 15 S= D/T problems. One gives students access to full solutions to self check their work via Tinyurl. The other is a traditional worksheet with no solutions.

Important Information

This version requires students to make no conversions for their final units of measurement. Both versions contain the same problem sets, the difference is the ability to self check.

Distance learning?

• No problem! This activity now includes Google Slides! Ready to go, no prep needed from you!

Two Forms of Use Included

1. Printable PDF
2. Google Slides

Printable PDF & Digital Versions are included in this distance learning ready activity which consists of 15 multiplication and division problems.

Important Information

Not all boxes are used in the maze to avoid students from just figuring out the correct route. Students will have to solve 13 problems to finish the maze.

Distance learning?

• No problem! This activity now includes Google Slides & Easel by TeachShare digital options!

Three Forms of Use Included

1. Printable PDF
2. Google Slides
3. Easel by TeachShare

Check out my other mazes for practicing significant figures!

*Identifying Significant Figures Maze

Printable PDF & Digital Versions are included in this distance learning ready activity which consists of identifying significant figures in a number 15 times.

Important Information

Not all boxes are used in the maze to avoid students from just figuring out the correct route. Students will have to identify the amount of significant figures in a number 12 times.

Distance learning?

• No problem! This activity now includes Google Slides & Easel by TeachShare digital options!

Three Forms of Use Included

1. Printable PDF
2. Google Slides
3. Easel by TeachShare

Check out my other mazes for practicing significant figures!

*Multiplying and Dividing Significant Figures Maze Activity

Printable PDF & Digital Versions are included in this distance learning ready activity which consists of 15 addition and subtraction problems where students also have to identify the significant figures in the answers.

Important Information

Not all boxes are used in the maze to avoid students from just figuring out the correct route. Students will have to solve 13 problems to finish the maze.

Distance learning?

• No problem! This activity now includes Google Slides & Easel by TeachShare digital options!

Three Forms of Use Included

1. Printable PDF
2. Google Slides
3. Easel by TeachShare

Check out my other mazes for practicing significant figures!

*Identifying Significant Figures Maze

*Multiplying and Dividing Significant Figures Maze Activity

Practice worksheet for properly organizing data into data tables.

Students are given sets of data and asked to make corresponding data tables. In each table students are asked to do more of the work. Example: The first data table includes the table already drawn and a few labels. The last one the student must make the whole table.

Distance learning?

• No problem! This activity now includes Google Docs Version! Ready to go, no prep needed from you!

Two Forms of Use Included

1. Printable PDF
2. Google Docs

Punnett Square Practice

Students apply the following vocabulary to produce Punnett squares that fit certain criteria.

Homozygous, Heterozygous, Genotype, Phenotype, Recessive, Dominant

Comes with student worksheet and teacher key.

Next Generation Science Standard: MS-LS3 Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits

This water log chart activity to designed to help students think about the question "how much water do I use?" and discover their weekly water use.

Students record how many times they participate in different water using activities. They then multiply this number by the average amount of water used to understand their weekly water consumption. These average use values are given to the student and already included in the chart.

Comes with a metric version (liters) and a standard version (gallons) as well as a teacher explanation.

Distance learning?

• No problem! This activity now includes Google Slides option! Ready to go, no prep needed from you!

Two Forms of Use Included

1. Printable PDF
2. Google Slides

This Scientific Method vocabulary and comprehension worksheet packet is perfect for giving your special education students access to age appropriate science curriculum that is differentiated to their level! This packet is meant for middle and high school students with intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, and autism.

If you are ready to include your students in mainstream curriculum, but don't know where or how to start, this is meant for you!

What's included?

- Vocabulary Word Sheet

- 3 levels of Vocabulary Matching worksheets (Picture to picture, picture to word, word to definition)

- 3 levels of Vocabulary Cloze Read worksheets (Picture supports, match the word, no modifications)

-2 comprehension passages with picture supports

-2 levels of comprehension questions (picture supports, no picture supports)

-1 True or False worksheet

-1 yes or no worksheet

- vocabulary/ answer cards for students who may answer through pointing, gesture, or eye gaze!

ALL students have the right to access curriculum with their peers in the mainstream setting!

Your opinion is important to me! Please leave me a rating/ review so that I can create and enhance my products to meet the needs of your classroom! THANK YOU!

This Biology: Respiratory System vocabulary and comprehension worksheet packet is perfect for giving your special education students access to age appropriate science curriculum that is differentiated to their level! This packet is meant for middle and high school students with intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, and autism.

Topics Included:

Breathing

Respiratory System

Lungs

If you are ready to include your students in mainstream curriculum, but don't know where or how to start, this is meant for you!

What's included?

- Vocabulary Word Sheet

- 3 levels of Vocabulary Matching worksheets (Picture to picture, picture to word, word to definition)

- 3 levels of Vocabulary Cloze Read worksheets (Picture supports, match the word, no modifications)

-2 comprehension passages with picture supports

-2 levels of comprehension questions (picture supports, no picture supports)

-1 True or False worksheet

-1 yes or no worksheet

-2 levels of the respiratory system diagram

-2 levels of the lungs diagram

- vocabulary/ answer cards for students who may answer through pointing, gesture, or eye gaze!

ALL students have the right to access curriculum with their peers in the mainstream setting!

Your opinion is important to me! Please leave me a rating/ review so that I can create and enhance my products to meet the needs of your classroom! THANK YOU!

This Biology: Cells and Organisms vocabulary and comprehension worksheet packet is perfect for giving your special education students access to age appropriate science curriculum that is differentiated to their level! This packet is meant for middle and high school students with intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, and autism.

Topics Included:

What are cells?

What are organisms?

Cell Division

If you are ready to include your students in mainstream curriculum, but don't know where or how to start, this is meant for you!

What's included?

- Vocabulary Word Sheet

- 3 levels of Vocabulary Matching worksheets (Picture to picture, picture to word, word to definition)

- 3 levels of Vocabulary Cloze Read worksheets (Picture supports, match the word, no modifications)

-3 comprehension passages with picture supports

-2 levels of comprehension questions (picture supports, no picture supports)

-1 True or False worksheet

-1 yes or no worksheet

-1 Multicellular or Unicellular Organism Sort

- vocabulary/ answer cards for students who may answer through pointing, gesture, or eye gaze!

ALL students have the right to access curriculum with their peers in the mainstream setting!

Your opinion is important to me! Please leave me a rating/ review so that I can create and enhance my products to meet the needs of your classroom! THANK YOU!

This Biology: Nervous System vocabulary and comprehension worksheet packet is perfect for giving your special education students access to age appropriate science curriculum that is differentiated to their level! This packet is meant for middle and high school students with intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, and autism.

Topics Included:

The Nervous System

The Brain

Neurons and Nerves

If you are ready to include your students in mainstream curriculum, but don't know where or how to start, this is meant for you!

What's included?

- Vocabulary Word Sheet

- 3 levels of Vocabulary Matching worksheets (Picture to picture, picture to word, word to definition)

- 3 levels of Vocabulary Cloze Read worksheets (Picture supports, match the word, no modifications)

-3 comprehension passages with picture supports

-2 levels of comprehension questions (picture supports, no picture supports)

-1 True or False worksheet

-1 yes or no worksheet

-2 levels of the brain diagram

- vocabulary/ answer cards for students who may answer through pointing, gesture, or eye gaze!

ALL students have the right to access curriculum with their peers in the mainstream setting!

Your opinion is important to me! Please leave me a rating/ review so that I can create and enhance my products to meet the needs of your classroom! THANK YOU!