8th Grade Science Google Apps

So many of the best museums may not be in your backyard, but it doesn’t mean you can’t learn more about them! This resource is a fun way to strengthen research skills, explore a variety of science museums and get kids considering where and how the public interacts with science. Perfect for early finishers or extension.

Students are tasked with:

• Researching science museums
• Finding out which exhibits are on permanent display
• What information can be found in the exhibits
• Identifying why learners their age would want to visit the museum

Sometimes students don’t know where to start! To help them get started with their museum research, included is a Google Slides presentation that:

• Introduces the assignment
• Explains various types of science museums
• Tells what kid of topics are covered in those institutions
• An example museum to get them started if needed

This assignment is ready-to-use and easy to implement in your classroom with little to no prep. 

Includes:

• PDF printable version
• Google Slides version to assign digitally
• Google Slides about the types of science museums

Chemical and physical changes are all around us! This resource is a fun way to explore chemical and physical changes in the context of honey production. Connect chemistry and biology with this extension assignment. Perfect for end of unit or early finishers.

Students are tasked with:

• Investigating honey production through the lens of chemical and physical changes
• Filling out a response sheet that gets them identifying changes in the process and why these changes are important for bees, other animals and humans.

Note: To be successful in completing this assignment student should have prior knowledge of chemical/physical changes, signs of chemical/physical changes and beginner knowledge of reactants, products and how chemical reactions are written.

To help guide students exploration of the topic included is a Google Slides presentation that:

• Explains honey production from nectar to jar
• Gives examples of the chemical and physical changes
• Helps connect chemical and physical changes to characteristics of honey
• Has videos to help enforce concepts

This assignment is ready-to-use and easy to implement in your classroom with little to no prep. 

Includes:

• PDF printable version
• Google Slides version to assign digitally
• Google Slides about the production of honey

Engage your students with these notes and task cards about Newton's 2nd law and calculating F=ma. Each card has a different scenario or task to help strengthen understanding of the Newton's second law, how force, acceleration and mass are directly and inversely related and how to calculate force, mass or acceleration using F=ma.

This activity is designed to help practice:

• Calculating F=ma
• Analyzing relationships between mass, force, and acceleration
• Interpreting the 2nd law and applying it to real-world examples
• Applying 2nd law principles to solve problems
• Understanding proportional relationships.

These notes and cards are ready-to-use and easy to implement in your classroom with little to no prep.

Included

• 2 Pages of Notes
• 16 Task Cards
• Printable Recording Sheet
• Google Slides Presentation to Facilitate Note Taking
• Teacher Keys

Engage your students with these notes and task cards about mass, weight and calculating W=mg. Each card has a different scenario or task to help strengthen understanding of the measurements of mass, weight, their similarities/differences and how to calculate weight, mass or gravity using W=mg.

This activity is designed to help practice:

• Calculating W=mg
• Identifying that mass will not change due to location
• Making predictions about the change in weight due to gravity
• Compare mass and weight
• Recognize scenarios when mass or weight it being measured.

These notes and cards are ready-to-use and easy to implement in your classroom with little to no prep.

Included

• 2 Pages of Notes
• 15 Task Cards
• Printable Recording Sheet
• Google Slides Presentation to Facilitate Note Taking
• Teacher Keys

Engage your students with these task cards about Newton's laws. Each card has a different scenario where students are asked to identify which of Newton's laws is being demonstrated. These cards are ready-to-use and easy to implement in your classroom with little to no prep. Print, cut and go! Students will be interacting with Newton's laws in no time!

This activity is designed to help:

• Students practice identifying Newton's laws in a variety of scenarios
• Expose learners to a wide range of real life examples

Not all students need the same support! This resource comes with 2 versions of the recording sheet. One version is set up for a simple 1st, 2nd or 3rd response. The other asks learners to explain why that law was chosen.

Included

• 16 Task Cards
• Printable Recording Sheets - 2 versions
• Teacher Key

Help students investigate the chemical and physical properties of matter with this 100% digital, distance learning friendly interactive science notebook. No prep is needed from you, these Google Slides are ready to assign to students and engage.

This resource addresses the following Essential Question:

• What properties describe matter?

Students will explore the topic by interacting with slides that contain text, drag & drop items, sorting activities, short response questions and reveal boxes.

Vocabulary covered: matter, substance, physical property and chemical property

Interactive Notebook Contains:

• 21 Full Color Pages with text and examples
• 11 Interactive Pages
• Teacher Key/Guide

Please note: This resource is not editable to respect the terms of the clipart, elements and fonts used. Please check out the preview and preview video to ensure that this product will work for you and your students!

Engage your students with these no prep Valentine's Day themed graphing and data table task cards. Each card has a different scenario or task to help strengthen the science process skills of graphing and data table organization.

This activity is designed to help practice:

• Making graphs
• Making data tables
• Interpreting information given via graph or table

These cards are a perfect way to celebrate and recognize the holiday, while meeting academic objectives.

Included:

• 20 task cards - 4 print per page
• Printable recording sheet
• Digital cards in Google Slides
• Teacher Key

Looking for a different resource to introduce and reinforce lab safety? This 100% digital Interactive Science Notebook is ready to meet that need. No prep needed from you, ready to assign to students and engage.

This resource addresses the following Essential Questions:

• How can we keep ourselves safe in a laboratory setting or in the field?

Interactive Notebook Contains:

• Google Slides Digital Notebook Pages
• 13 Full Color Pages with text and examples
• 2 Interactive Drag and Drop Pages
• 5 Pages That Require Student Interaction

Please check out the preview video to ensure that this product would work for you and your students!

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

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 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

100% digital, distance learning friendly Interactive Science Notebook. No prep needed from you, ready to assign to students and engage

This resource addresses the following Essential Questions:

• What changes the direction of a wave?
• What are the two types of wave interference?
• How do standing waves form?

Vocabulary covered: reflection, refraction, diffraction, constructive interference, destructive interference, standing wave, node, antinode, resonance.

Interactive Notebook Contains:

• 26 Full Color Pages with text and examples
• 3 Interactive Sort Pages
• 9 Response and Reflection Pages
• Links to demos of concepts
• Teacher Key/Guide

Please check out the preview video to ensure that this product would work for you and your students!

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

One "mini" lab that will help students observe and make connections that energy cannot be created or destroyed.

These short activities reinforce or introduce concepts to students. I call these activities “mini labs” because they are simple activities that do not take the whole class period. They are also activities that are safe for use in the classroom and do not have to be done in a lab or with any specialty equipment or materials.

Materials Needed

• 1-1.5 m length of string
• Pencil with an eraser
• Meter stick
• Level
• Pendulum Bob (I have substituted a fishing weight or mass with a hook when I did not have these available in my lab)
• Nail or hook above whiteboard (A 3M hook is great for this, no tools needed to install and does not hurt the walls!
• Whiteboard/Chalkboard (I have also used large sheets of paper on the wall for multiple stations)

For Middle School this supports or extends NGSS: MS PS3-5

For High School this supports MS PS2-2

Distance learning or need a digital copy to assign?

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

Three 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 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

Students will research analog and digital signals, their applications and pros and cons. It also has students take their new knowledge to compare and contrast the two.

This project has QR codes that are able to be scanned for easy retrieval of resources. Students also can use other teacher provided information or find their own.

Distance learning?

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

Resource includes: Student activity and Teacher Key

Two Forms of Use Included

1. Printable PDF

2. Google Slides

Next Generation Science Standard MS-PS4-3: Integrate qualitative scientific and technical information to support the claim that digitized signals are a more reliable way to encode and transmit information than analog signals. [Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on a basic understanding that waves can be used for communication purposes. Examples could include using fiber optic cable to transmit light pulses, radio wave pulses in wifi devices, and conversion of stored binary patterns to make sound or text on a computer screen.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include binary counting. Assessment does not include the specific mechanism of any given device.]

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

One "mini" lab that will help students observe and make connections that all objects have energy, even when they are not moving.

Materials Needed

Plastic Bowl

Sand

Assorted rocks and pebbles

Ruler

These short activities reinforce or introduce concepts to students. I call these activities “mini labs” because they are simple activities that do not take the whole class period. They are also activities that are safe for use in the classroom and do not have to be done in a lab or with any specialty equipment or materials. I often use these demonstrations to lead into new content, that way as we cover material I can refer back to the things that my students have experienced first hand.

Distance learning or need a digital copy to assign?

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

Three Forms of Use Included

1. Printable PDF
2. Google Slides

Can be used to support NGSS: MS-PS3

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