8th Grade Handouts

This activity is an engaging and accessible way for your students to practice and strengthen their knowledge of American geography as well as states and capital cities!

Students will be tasked with identifying a mystery state that can be only be solved through the process of elimination. They will be prompted to use a political map of America to solve various puzzles and eliminate 49 states until they have only one left, thus solving the mystery.

This is a great way to review states and capital cities and basic map skills. The print version requires that students have access to a physical map but there is a link to a map in the digital version.

THIS PRODUCT INCLUDES:

• FIVE puzzles for students to solve using a political map of the United States and their knowledge of American geography
• Answer Key
• Link to Digital Version

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Seek and find the 20 words/phrases that are important to celebrating Juneteenth in this word search

This lesson is a reading over the Geography of the Central Asia and the Caucasus. Students will read the paragraphs and then answer Fill in the Blanks, Multiple Choice, Matching, and Short Answer questions. Answers are included.

Valentine Hearts Coloring Pages | Valentines coloring Cards

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with this fun and creative collection of Valentine hearts coloring pages and Valentine coloring cards! Perfect for classrooms or at-home activities, this resource offers a festive way for kids to get creative while spreading love and kindness.

What’s Included:
❤️ 10 heart-themed coloring pages
❤️ 10Valentine coloring cards for students to personalize and share with friends or family.

Why You’ll Love It:
✔️ Low-prep: Just print and let the fun begin!
✔️ Multi-purpose: Use as coloring pages, Valentine cards, or keepsakes.
✔️ Engaging: Perfect for classroom activities, early finishers, or take-home projects.

This versatile set of Valentine hearts coloring pages and Valentine coloring cards is ideal for spreading joy and creativity during Valentine’s Day. Add it to your holiday plans today for a fun and meaningful activity kids will love! ❤️

If you like this resource, be sure to check out our other activities!

⭐️Valentine card template | Valentine letter template

⭐️Valentine Dot to Dot Activity

⭐️Valentine coloring sheets

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This resource contains 3 Social Media Safety Reading Comprehension Passages with Written Response Questions that focus on the topic of social media, digital, or internet safety.

The passages are suitable for students in 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades but can also be used by 9th and 10th grade students to teach them about online media safety.

The passages cover the following themes:

• How to Recognize Unsafe Interactions on Social Media: This passage explains the signs of suspicious or harmful messages or requests on social media platforms and how to deal with them.
• Identity Theft on Social Media: This passage describes what identity theft is, how it can happen on social media, and the various ways to prevent it or report it.
• Cyberbullying on Social Media: This passage defines what cyberbullying is, how it can affect victims and perpetrators, and the strategies to stop it or cope with it.

Each passage is followed by written response questions that test the student’s comprehension and critical thinking skills. Answer keys are included for each passage.

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Elevate your Algebra teaching experience with this all-in-one Chapter 1 Algebra bundle, meticulously crafted to cover the foundational concepts of algebra. This comprehensive bundle includes everything you need to guide your students through essential topics:
CHAPTER 1 ALGEBRA:

1. Algebraic and Verbal Expressions
2. Order of Operations
3. Properties of Numbers
4. Distributive Property and Combining Like Terms
5. Relation
6. Functions

Bundle Contents: For each lesson, you will receive:

• 1 Study Guide: Explanations, definitions, and examples to help students grasp the core concepts.
• 1 Practice Worksheet: Engage students with practice problems to reinforce their understanding.
• 1 Homework: Assign additional exercises to strengthen students’ skills outside the classroom.
• 1 Word Problems Worksheet: Apply algebraic concepts to real-world scenarios, enhancing problem-solving abilities.
• 1 Quiz: Assess student understanding with a carefully designed quiz for each lesson.
• Answer Keys: Complete answer keys for all materials, making grading quick and easy.

All materials are created with high-quality, easy-to-read formatting and are ready for immediate use in your classroom.

All documents are produced using LaTeX, providing clean, professional, and easily readable documents. LaTeX is renowned for its ability to produce documents with precise and accurate mathematical typesetting.

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This Scientific Method anchor chart will be sure to help your science students! Print, laminate, and hang up! It's that simple! Or even give each students their own copy to reference!

Students love Kwame Alexander's verse novel The Crossover, and I love the rigor of these power worksheets! His novel is organized into sections just like a basketball game including:

• Warm-up free download here!
• First quarter
• Second quarter
• Third quarter
• Fourth quarter
• Overtime

This resource covers all of the poems in the First Quarter section; with each poem accompanying two pages of guided practice with middle school ELA standards including:

• Vocabulary and dictionary practice
• Inferencing
• Identifying figurative language 
• Making text-to-self connections
• compare and contrast characters
• Identifying Imagery
• Text structure
• Analyzing point of view

Did you know The Crossover is coming to Disney+? The novel is set to release a miniseries in 2023! If your class loves this text, check out my other resources:

• The Crossover Warm Up Standard Aligned handout for each poem! PDF & PPT (TeachShare.com)
• The Crossover First Quarter Standard Aligned handout for each poem! PDF & PPT (TeachShare.com)
• The Crossover Basketball Rules Motivational and Plot Posters PNG/PDF (TeachShare.com)

Egg-citement fills the air! Your students have stumbled upon a mysterious egg, unlike any they've seen before. But wait, there's more! The egg hatches, revealing a creature NOT A bunny! This activity provides the perfect opportunity for students to practice narrative writing in descriptive paragraphs, capturing the wonder and surprise of this extraordinary discovery.

What's Included?

• Egg Design Template: A blank egg template allows students to unleash their creativity and illustrate the mysterious egg before it hatches. Encourage them to consider its size, color, patterns, or any unique features that set it apart.
• Narrative Writing Prompt:
  A writing prompt guides students through the storytelling process:

1. Discovery: Describe the scene where you find the egg. Where are you? What are you doing? How do you discover the egg? Use vivid details to paint a picture for your reader.
2. Mystery: The egg is unlike any you've seen before! Describe its appearance in detail. What is its size, color, texture, or any other remarkable features that pique your curiosity?
3. Hatching Time! Suspense builds as the egg begins to crack. Describe the sounds and sights leading to the big reveal. What emotions do you feel?
4. Surprise! The egg hatches, but instead of a bunny, a creature unlike any you've ever seen emerges! Describe this unexpected creature in detail. Focus on its appearance, size, and any unique features that make it special.
5. A New Friend? The story doesn't end here! What happens next? Do you befriend the creature? Do you embark on an adventure together? Leave the ending open for students to use their imaginations and create a unique conclusion.

⭐Narrative Writings:

Benny the Bunny - Speaks on Easter Day

Earth Layers

Turkey Escaped Dinner

Trapped in a Snow Globe

Snowman Came to Life**⭐**

⭐More for Easter:

Rename Fractions | Easter/Spring Bunnies**⭐**

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My first decor bundle is here! Rainbow Pastel has the basics you need for your classroom!

Calendar - either can be flip or use a pocket chart

Nameplates - Editable on powerpoint! Options for each grade span (primary and upper)

Number Posters - Skip counting, number posters

Alphabet - Options for each grade span ( primary, with or without pictures)

Birthday Display - Editable on powerpoint

Numberline - 0 - 120

Shape posters - 2 D shapes

Hand signals - editable on powerpoint or pre-made with options

Recognize your student's hard work and effort throughout the school year with this set of English Language awards in gold theme. These awards are standards based with each award including the number of the standard.

Awards for literary reading, speaking, listening, writing, informational reading, language conventions, and some miscellaneous awards are included and saved by category in separate folders.

These awards could be given throughout the school year and for a school-wide awards program. These awards are a great way reward and to motivate your students to do well as well as create a positive inspiring classroom culture.

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Editable means only the text can be edited.

Shine a Light this Fall Season! Pass out these Candy Grams on or with your choice of Candy. You could also pass out to your friends and neighbors as you receive candy. Print, Cut out and use to tell others about God’s Love!

This was inspired by my Bible Lesson: Shine Your Light for Jesus!

Delve into over 60 diverse themes, from emotions to furniture and musical instruments, offering a stimulating array of over 700 words to unravel. Whether you're a casual puzzler or a seasoned word aficionado, this 8.2x11 inches book promises hours of entertainment and mental exercise. Discover the satisfaction of unscrambling each word and reveal the answers conveniently located at the end. Embrace the joy of wordplay and embark on a delightful journey of linguistic exploration today!

Here are some benefits of engaging in word scramble activities:

1. Mental Stimulation: Word scrambles provide a mental workout, helping to keep the brain sharp and active.
2. Vocabulary Expansion: By encountering a variety of words in different contexts, word scrambles can introduce new vocabulary and reinforce existing knowledge.
3. Problem-Solving Skills: Figuring out the correct arrangement of letters challenges your problem-solving abilities and encourages creative thinking.
4. Improves Concentration: Focusing on unscrambling words requires concentration and attention to detail, which can enhance overall concentration skills.
5. Enhances Memory: Engaging with words in a scrambled format can improve memory retention as you try to remember and rearrange the letters to form meaningful words.
6. Relaxation and Stress Relief: Solving word scrambles can be a relaxing activity, offering a break from daily stressors while still providing mental stimulation.
7. Language Skills Development: Word scrambles can improve spelling, grammar, and language comprehension skills, making them beneficial for language learners and enthusiasts.
8. Entertainment and Enjoyment: Word scrambles offer a fun and entertaining way to pass the time, whether alone or with friends and family.
9. Self-Esteem Boost: Successfully unscrambling words and completing puzzles can provide a sense of accomplishment and boost self-esteem.
10. Accessible Anywhere: Word scramble activities can be enjoyed almost anywhere, making them a convenient option for on-the-go entertainment or relaxation.

Engage your students with this fun and interactive mystery-solving activity while reinforcing key algebra skills! In this activity, students work through 24 polynomial problems—12 for adding polynomials and 12 for subtracting polynomials—to uncover clues and solve a mystery.

How It Works:

• Students solve each problem, then find their answer on the Who, Where, When sheet.
• As they match each correct answer, they’ll cross off boxes.
• The final three boxes that remain uncrossed will reveal who committed the mystery, where it happened, and when it occurred!

This hands-on approach helps students practice adding and subtracting polynomials in an engaging, puzzle-like format. It’s perfect for review, homework, or an in-class activity.

What’s Included:

• 24 polynomial problems: 12 adding and 12 subtracting.
• Who, Where, When mystery sheet to guide students through solving the puzzle.
• Modified guided version for differentiated instruction, helping all students succeed.
• Answer Key

Students will love the challenge of solving both the math and the mystery!

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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with this comprehensive bundle designed to immerse students in the rich contributions of Spanish speakers and save 20%!

This resource pack includes:

• Famous Spanish Speaker Project: Inspire research and creativity as students explore 200 notable figures in Hispanic culture from a wide variety of fields.
• Hispanic Influence Project: Highlights the impact of Hispanic heritage in various aspects of American culture including language, geography, food and more!
• Cognate Practice Activities: Students learn to take a closer look at language structures and similarities through fun, vocabulary-boosting activities with Spanish-English cognates.
• Word Searches: Challenging puzzles featuring famous Spanish speakers, artists and essential greetings to reinforce learning. Includes optional research activates.

Perfect for teachers looking to enhance cultural awareness and language skills in the classroom! Download now and engage your students with meaningful content that celebrates diversity for Hispanic Heritage month and beyond.

This includes two Articles "How do hurricanes form? A step-by-step guide" and "How Do Hurricanes Form?" plus a graph titled "Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale" . After reading these sources students are given a prompt for an expository essay on how hurricanes are formed. Includes a outline sheet that can be easily filled out in Google Docs as well as a rubric. This product works great in any digital classroom. This is editable in Google Docs. You must have Google Drive to use this product! You may sign up for Google drive for free Visit here for help with Google Drive

Unlock the power of assertive communication with our comprehensive Assertiveness Training program, specially designed for teens and adults. This engaging and interactive resource includes a detailed PowerPoint presentation and a complementary handout, offering practical exercises and strategies to help learners develop and practice assertiveness in various situations.

What's Included:

1. PowerPoint Presentation: An informative and visually appealing PowerPoint that covers the fundamentals of assertiveness. Each slide is designed to educate and engage learners, featuring key concepts, real-life examples, and interactive exercises.
2. Interactive Exercises: Embedded within the PowerPoint are exercises that encourage active participation and practical application of assertiveness techniques. These exercises are designed to build confidence and reinforce learning through practice.
3. Handout: A comprehensive handout that summarizes key points from the presentation. This handout serves as a valuable reference tool for learners to review and practice assertiveness techniques on their own.

Empower teens and adults to communicate with confidence and clarity through our Assertiveness Training program. Download today to foster a culture of respect, self-assurance, and effective communication!

Social Skills Activities | Success | Social Emotional Learning | Social Awareness

About This Resource

**★ Topic - **Exploring Social Skills

**★ **Activity Worksheets

**★ **8 pages

**★ **Print and Digital

**★ **Suitable for Middle School and High School

**★ **Social Emotional Learning

**★ **Detailed Suggested Responses included

This resource includes:

**★ 3 ***Exploring Social Skills Web *Worksheets (Same Worksheets | 3 Variations)

**★ 1 **Exploring Your Social Skills Reflection Worksheet

**★ 2 **Bulletin Board Task Display Pages to display with student work on Bulletin Boards

**★ **Sample Responses

**★ **Google Slide link

Enhance your students' ability to communicate and interact effectively with this Essential Social Skills for Successful Interactions SEL activity, perfect for middle and high school classrooms! This resource is designed to help students brainstorm, understand, and practice the key social skills needed to succeed in relationships, academics, and future careers.

Students will brainstorm key social skills needed for successful interactions. They can work individually or in pairs to identify and discuss skills such as active listening, empathy, and clear communication. This activity helps students develop awareness of effective interpersonal behaviors while encouraging collaboration and discussion.

Also included is an Exploring Your Social Skills Reflection Worksheet with three thought-provoking questions designed to help students examine their own experiences with social skills. Sample responses are provided to guide students in crafting meaningful and personal answers.

This resource can be a helpful addition to any lesson or activity you’ve planned for your students. The worksheets provide a simple way for students to take notes and brainstorm ideas about important social skills for interacting with others. They can also be used for class discussions, pair activities, group work, or small group tasks.

Also included are two Bulletin Board Task Display pages, perfect for showcasing student work on bulletin boards as soon as they’re finished. It’s a great way to save time and highlight students’ efforts!

Who’s It For?

✔️ Middle and High School Teachers

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✔️ SEL Coordinators

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Review of solving equations & inequalities in one variable, as well as compound inequalities, & absolute value equations & inequalities.