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Lesson Plans - 8th Grade

Wanted Dead or Alive

How can we determine the value of the timber in a forest? How can we measure a pine tree, or for that matter, any item that is longer, taller, broader, or deeper than our measuring tools?

Students as Historians: Investigating the Gulf War

How do facts and opinions, as well as primary and secondary sources, influence the remembering (interpretation) of an event? What makes a source primary or secondary? What’s the difference between fact and opinion?

Twin Traits

Explore the Nature vs. Nurture controversy. Participate in hands-on activities to discover how variation in species is due to exchange and interaction of genetic information from parent to offspring.

Industrial Times

Students follow a journalistic theme to find out about the causes and effects of the Industrial Revolution.

I’m A Poet and Didn’t Know It!

What makes good poetry? Students explore poets such as Langston Hughes, Shel Silverstein and Robert Frost and examine what makes their poetry so great.