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Lesson Plans - 8th Grade

Merry Easter

Merry Easter? This activity is a fun way to incorporate holiday activities with age appropriate writing skills. The students create greeting cards to special persons for a special holiday.

Easter Egg Orienteering Hunt

The purpose of this activity is to develop map reading skills and teamwork.

Why Not a Woman?

You will work in groups to investigate some federal holidays and learn why those holidays are observed. Then your group will choose a woman it thinks should be honored with a federal holiday, and create a presentation to convince your classmates to nominate that woman.

Who Did That?

Students research remarkable women of today, write a biography about one of those women, and create a trivia game using facts from the women’s lives.

They Also Serve

Students learn about the roles women played during World War II and design a recruiting poster telling women of the ways in which they can serve their country today.