Eighth Grade Lesson Plans

English Language Arts Grades 7-8 (2023)

• 8th grade poetry
• A Christmas Carol Characterization
• A Long Walk To Water Connection Experience
• A Story of Epic Proportions: What makes a Poem an Epic?
• Abolition: The Catalyst for the Women's Rights Movement
• Acting Out Student Stories with Robots
• Add Context to Your Introductions with the "Then-and-Now Intro"
• American Authors in the Nineteenth Century: Whitman, Dickinson, Longfellow, Stowe, and Poe. Consider changing title to: Library of Congress primary resources and lesson plans
• Analyzing Opinions For and Against Women's Suffrage in Utah, 1870-1896
• Annotate Text in Google Docs
• BBC My World Media Literacy
• Balance Action in Your Writing with Thoughts and Emotions
• Book Reports
• Can Words Lead to War?
• Character Changes Lesson and iPad Assignment
• Congressional Biography
• Define Important Terms AND Make Your Intro Interesting with the Definition Hinge Structure
• Descriptive Writing Snapshot
• Dr. Cannon Goes to Washington: Utah Statues in National Statuary Hall
• Easily Discuss Text Evidence with this Simple Structure Trick
• Evaluate Credibility of Online Sources
• Examining History with Maya Angelou's Poetry
• Examining the Struggle for Suffrage & Utah Statehood through Political Cartoons
• How the Sego Lilly Became Utah's State Flower: Examining Primary Sources
• How to Explode Moments in Your Personal or College Essay
• How to Paint a Picture with Details in Your Writing
• How to Paraphrase Text Evidence
• How to Punctuate Titles
• How to Write Complete Sentences & When to Break the Rule
• Imagery and Strategies Used in the Women's Sufferage Movement: Developing a Get-Out-The-Vote Campaign
• Informative Writing
• Learn Global English as a Second Language: Countable and Uncountable Nouns, Present Continuous Tense, Times, Dates & Numbers, Review of Consonants and Vowels, Review of Articles (Lesson 4)
• Learn Global English as a Second Language: Present Simple Tense Sentence Forms (Positive, Negative, Question), Contractions (Does Not/Doesn't, Is Not/Isn't), Pronunciation (Voiced and Voiceless Sounds, Words Endings (S, CH, IZ) (Lesson 3)
• Learn Global English as a Second Language: Review of the Present Simple Tense with Irregular Verbs, Present Simple Tense vs. Present Continuous Tense (why are they different?) and Possessive Adjectives (Lesson 1)
• Learn Global English as a Second Language: Spelling Rules, (Using I after E, dropping the final E, changing a final Y to I, add es, doubling a final consonant Ð ing, ed), Review of Verbs, Nouns, Pronouns, Upper/lower case, Identifiers, Present simple tense, Present continuous tense, Vowels & Consonants, Prepositions of Place, Forming Sentences (Lesson 5)
• Learn Global English as a Second Language: The Alphabet, Consonants & Vowels, Capitalization & Punctuation, Personal Pronouns, The Verb 'to be', Articles a/an/the (Lesson 1)
• Learn Global English as a Second Language: Vocabulary, Nouns (people, places, things) Regular & Irregular Verbs, Identifiers (this/that/these/those), Prepositions (Lesson 2)
• Learn How to Write a Quick, Advanced Summary with the Pivot Synopsis
• Learn New Vocabulary with Flash Cards
• Lesson 3: A Debate Against Slavery
• Let's Get Back to Basics: Structure 101
• Limiting Child Labor: Providing for the General Welfare
• Listening Guide: Chatbots are supercharging search: Are we ready?
• Listening Guide: Flagrant foul: Misinformation and sports
• Listening Guide: Opinion creep: How facts lost ground in the battle for our attention
• Mentor Text Greenlight: Marshfield Dreams
• Mentor Text Greenlight: Why You're Never Too Old to Build Castles in the Air
• New Ways to Incorporate Text Evidence
• News Goggles: Candace Buckner, The Washington Post
• News Goggles: Emilie Munson, Times Union
• News Goggles: Kent Porter, The Press Democrat
• News Matters Unit Plan
• One Pager for Novel Response
• One Tin Soldier Rides Away
• Philip Reid and Freedom
• Quick Tips on How to Write Dialogue Correctly
• Research and Develop a Topic
• S is for Shoes Off in the House | ABC's of AAPIs
• Secession and the Senate
• Sentence Structure and Complexity
• Student Storytelling Podcast Episode (GarageBand)
• Swift and Slow on the Internet You Will Go (Grade 6)
• The Clean Water Act
• The Constitutional Convention: What the Founding Fathers Said
• The Easiest Way to Write a Synopsis
• The Federalist Debates: Balancing Power Between State and Federal Governments
• The Grapes of Wrath: Voices from the Great Depression
• The Industrial Age in America: Sweatshops, Steel Mills, and Factories
• The U.S. House of Representatives and the Gag Rule
• The World of Haiku
• Three Paragraph Structures Every Writer Needs to Know
• To Quote or Not to Quote (Text Evidence)?
• Two Ways to Summarize an Event
• Utah Women and the Railroad
• Vivid Verbs
• Voices of American Indian Boarding Schools Audio Museum
• Was the Civil War About Slavery?
• What do you do with a problem?
• Write an If-Then Adventure Story
• Writers' Favorite Way to Start a Personal Essay

Secondary Media Arts - Grades 7 and 8

• DIGITAL STORYTELLING
• Graphic Design 1 Curriculum
• Make Art Inspired by Frida Kahlo and Mexico
• Photographic Mandala

Secondary Theatre - Grades 7 and 8

• Vocal Acting

Secondary Visual Arts - Grades 7

• Make Art Inspired by Frida Kahlo and Mexico
• Rule of Thirds
• Short Documentary Filmmaking

SEEd - Grade 8

• 8.1 Chemical Reactions Lesson Plan & Resources
• 8.1 Chemical Reactions Lesson Plan & Resources
• 8.1 Polymers Lesson Plan & Resources
• 8.1 Polymers Lesson Plan & Resources
• 8.2 Energy Transfer Lesson Plan & Resources
• 8.2 Waves Lesson Plan & Resources
• 8.2 Waves Lesson Plan & Resources
• 8.3 Photosynthesis/Respiration Lesson Plan & Resources
• 8.3 Photosynthesis/Respiration Lesson Plan & Resources
• 8.4 Climate Change Lesson Plan & Resources
• 8.4 Water Resources Lesson Plan & Resources
• 8.4 Water Resources Lesson Plan & Resources
• 8th - Be A Voice for the Great Salt Lake
• Air Pollution Solutions 8.4.2
• Air, Natural Resources, and You 8.4.2
• Building Batteries
• Candy Bar Core Drilling
• Chemistry of Combustion
• Coal Distribution in Utah
• Electric/Solar Cars, an Option? 8.4.2 & 8.4.3
• Energy From Biomass
• Helium: An Important Natural Resource
• Helium: An Important Natural Resource
• Idle Free Plan
• Idle Quiz
• Impacting Utah's Air
• Lesson Plan 8.1.6 Conservation of Matter
• MOLECULES in MOTION
• Minerals In Our Daily Lives
• Mining and Reclamation
• Natural Gas: A Lesson On Density of a Gas
• The Many Uses of Petroleum
• Transporting Natural Gas
• Utah Climate
• Utah Copper
• Water in Our World: Exploring Storage and Movement in Different Environments
• Whats Up With Our Air? worksheet 5.2.2 & 6.2.2 & 8.1.2 & 8.4.1
• Where Do the Particles Go? A Model of Combustion
• youcubed: Circle Fever

College & Career Awareness

• Google Slides

Health Education I (7-8)

• 5 Measures of Fitness
• 5 Measures of Fitness: Muscular Strength & Endurance
• Choose My Plate
• Communication
• Digital Citizenship Lesson Plan - Social Media
• Don't Let Stress Get You All Wet
• Don't Worry, Do Something, Then Be Happy
• Drugs in Society
• Introduction to Refusal Skills
• It's a Gamble
• Maturation & Reproduction: Boys (Lesson Plan)
• Nicotine Addiction and Quitting
• Nutrient Detectives
• Safety in the Home Presentation
• This is your brain. . .this is your brain on drugs.
• Too Much of a Good Thing- Overdoing Supplements
• Truth About Tobacco
• Truth in Advertising
• Uppers, Downers and All Arounders
• Video Lesson on Healthy Relationship
• Violence in the Media
• What It's Like to Walk in Their Shoes
• What's in a Serving size?
• You Can Get Through It
• iPad Activity - Addiction

Secondary Library Media (6-12)

• "Just the Facts, Ma'am": Evaluating Sources
• Book Recommendations with Podcasts
• Book Reviews With Digital Photography
• Building Background Knowledge on The Holocaust
• Career Research - Biography
• Choosing Research Topics: Plate Tectonics
• Compare Spanish Speaking Country Information
• Copyright in the Real World (Part 2)
• Create a Podcast About Your NHD Project
• Creating a Positive Digital Identity
• Digital Citizenship Infographic
• Digital Citizenship for Libraries
• Does Science Fiction Predict the Future? Inquiry Based Media Literacy Unit
• Evaluate Websites Using the CRAP Checklist (9-12)
• Explore the World a Country at a Time
• Fake News or better known as Disinformation
• Finding Materials in the Library
• Finding Sources to Support your Question
• Gale Reference Introduction
• Generating An Interesting, Condensed Topic
• Genius Hour
• Genius Hour Project (Math) Lesson Plan
• Genius Hour Project: Career Exploration for Student's in Special Education
• How to Use the Card Catalog
• How to select sources: a vocabulary exercise
• Know Your Literature Genres
• Know Your Literature Genres
• Know Your Literature Genres
• Library Orientation
• Library Photo Scavenger Hunt
• Location and Access: Threading the Needle
• Memoir with El Deafo (Grade 6-8)
• Nearpod: Student Privacy and Social Media
• Organizing Information Lesson - Sorting Pictures
• Picture This! Creating an Infographic
• Puzzles, not Pieces: Smart Searching (Day 3 of 5)
• Puzzles, not Pieces: Topic Selection (Day 1 of 5)
• Puzzles, not Pieces: Topic Selection (Day 2 of 5)
• Puzzles, not Pieces: Using Sources (Day 5 of 5)
• Reading Engagement Lesson 1: Interests & Reading Survey
• Reading Engagement Lesson 2: Speed Book Dating
• Reading Engagement Lesson 3: Book Talks
• Renaissance 'Movers and Shakers'
• Rules of the Game Print vs Digital
• Senior Capstone 1: Evaluating Sources
• Senior Capstone 2: Using Databases and Library Catalog
• Senior Capstone 3: Using Databases and Summarizing
• Social Media and the Stand Against Fake News
• Swift and Slow on the Internet You Will Go (Grade 6)
• Tech Fun Friday Project
• Types of Media Bias and How to Spot It
• Using Gale Reference to Analyze Opposing Claims
• What is Media trying to tell me?
• Wordless Media Messages
• You are an Independent Reader

Secondary Music - Instrumental - Level 1

• Concert Commercial

Social Studies - United States History I

• "A Glorious Liberty Document": The U.S. Constitution and Its Principles
• 6 Primary Sources from the American Civil War
• A Classroom Constitutional Convention
• A Lesson Plan for Independence Day, the Fourth of July
• A Movement in the Right Direction (Infographic)
• A Simulated Election
• A crash course on voting and the US political system
• Abraham Lincoln and Habeas Corpus
• Abraham Lincoln and the U.S. Constitution
• Actions of the First Congress
• African Americans in the Gilded Age
• All Legislative Powers Herein Granted – The Legislative Process 1789-1860
• An "Apple of Gold" in a "Picture of Silver": The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution
• Ancient Republics and European Charters
• Antietam 360: Natural and Man-made Features Lesson Plan
• Background on the Patriot Attitude Toward the Monarchy
• Becoming a Voter
• Being an Informed Voter
• Citizenship Nearpod
• Civil War Prisoners: The Civil War in 4 Minutes
• Colonial Encounters: George Washington and Native Americans
• Columbian Exchange
• Constitution Day Scavenger Hunt with 60-Second Civics
• Constitution EXPLAINED: The Presidency Changes
• Constitution EXPLAINED: Who Chooses the President?
• Debating the Electoral College
• Election Foundations
• Electoral College
• Four mini-lessons on presidential debates
• Free and Fair Elections
• Getting the Nomination
• Great Debates | We The Voters
• History of the American West 1830-1930
• Native American Cultures Across the U.S.
• One Person, One Vote: Baker v. Carr and Reynolds v. Sims
• Political Parties
• Popular v. President
• Presidential Election Lesson 1: Slogans in Presidential Elections
• Presidential Election Lesson 2: Where Do the Candidates Stand?
• Presidential Election Lesson 3: The Candidates Debate
• Rank Your Choice (Infographic)
• Shelby County v. Holder | FRONTLINE
• Should the Electoral College Stay or Go? | PBS NewsHour
• Slavery, Secession, and States’ Rights
• The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson and the Growth of Party Politics
• The Civil War Animated Map: Video and Lesson Plan
• To Amend or Not to Amend, That's Been the Question…Many Times
• What Is A Good Rule? Creating Initiatives
• What's In a Name?
• What’s the Role of Primary Elections and Caucuses?
• Why Midterm Elections Are Important | Things Explained
• Women's Suffrage: Their Rights and Nothing Less