8th Grade Video Files

Includes a set of 12 comprehensive questions that guide students through the documentaries.

Includes a set for each of the documentaries in this series.

The Congress, Statue of Liberty, Thomas Hart Benton, Brooklyn Bridge, Huey Long, Empire of the Air, and The Shakers.

Written at a 9th grade level.

Includes separate answer keys.

Help your middle schoolers dive deep into the complexities of climate change with this engaging and thought-provoking resource!

"Climate Change: Five Perspectives" goes beyond basic facts, encouraging students to analyze diverse viewpoints and develop their critical thinking skills.

This comprehensive resource includes:

• Five compelling letters, each written to the United: Each letter presents a unique perspective on climate change, written from the point of view of:

  • The Urgent Activist
  • The Cautious Skeptic
  • The Technological Optimist
  • The Economic Pragmatist
  • The Frontline Youth (a student living in Kiribati)

• A companion AI video where the five letters are read aloud by their authors.

• 12 Engaging Assignments: Designed to spark critical thinking and enhance literacy skills, these activities encourage students to:

  • Analyze author's craft, purpose, and structure.
  • Synthesize information and evaluate evidence.
  • Compare and contrast perspectives.
  • Develop their own informed opinions.

• Alignment with Curriculum: This resource integrates with many Grade 6 literacy outcomes and climate change units. It was paritcularly aimed at the Alberta curriciulum.

Why This Resource Stands Out:

• Promotes Critical Thinking: Students learn to analyze different viewpoints, evaluate evidence, and form their own conclusions.
• Encourages Empathy and Global Awareness: By exploring diverse perspectives, students gain a deeper understanding of how climate change impacts people around the world.
• Offers Flexibility: The resource can be adapted for individual work, small group activities, or whole-class discussions.
• Saves You Time: The ready-to-use letters, video, and assignments make it easy to implement this resource in your classroom.

Spark meaningful conversations about climate change and empower your students to become informed, engaged global citizens!

Click here to purchase "Climate Change: Five Perspectives" and enhance your climate change unit today!

Basic Video Editing in Adobe Premiere Pro gives students a step-by-step lesson to learn the basic skills needed for video editing: Adding and editing files, working with audio, creating titles, and rendering and saving your project. The lesson provides step-by-step instructions and also includes links to tutorials students can use as they need to complete the lesson. Students create a short project as they follow the mini-lessons and then demonstrate their learning through a short creative project at the end of the tutorials. This lesson was created for an 8th grade class, but is appropriate for any age group that are first time users of Adobe Premiere Pro.

Files Included with this Lesson

• Teacher Notes and Resources

• Adobe Premiere Pro Step-by-Step Tutorial

• Basic Adobe Premiere Pro Editing Project Expectations & Rubric

12/29/17: The links to sites with free-to-use video clips has been added to this resource.

Note: This was created for use with Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2014.

This lesson is great for distance learning/remote learning. You can upload it to your school's learning management system (Google Classroom, Edmodo, Canvas, etc.) or share with students via Google Drive.

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Start your lesson off right with this no prep US History Riddle Bell Ringers videos from Colonial settlement to the modern period - excellent for your middle and high school history students in the Video Bellringers for the TikTok generation. Build their contextual knowledge with targeted content knowledge.

Imagine your class sitting before the bell with notebooks open, writing down their response to the question and anxiously waiting for you to reveal the video behind the question. This is what our VIDEO BELL RINGERS guarantee!

It includes:

• 85 individual video riddles (10 Weeks plus some spares) of Curriculum content mystery riddles
• Cover a semester of lessons
• 25 seconds in length with a timer
• If you want your students more time to answer simply pauses the video.
• Use the different topics as you move through your program over the years
• Incorporate them into your other revisions activities.
• Reusable year after year.
• Downloads as a single ZIP file. (not preview on the google drive)

Common Core Outcomes:

For Grades 6-8: Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies 6-8: RH.6-8.2, RH.6-8.3, RH.6-8.4,

For Grades 9-12: Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies 9-10 & 11-12: RH.9-10.2, RH.9-10.3, RH.9-10.4,

Video shorts are an effective tool in history classes, especially for middle and high school students, due to their engaging and concise nature. These brief, visually stimulating videos cater to the digital media habits of younger audiences, enhancing engagement and retention. They combine visual elements like images and maps with storytelling, making historical events more relatable and memorable. Additionally, their versatility allows them to complement traditional teaching methods, serving as useful introductions or summaries to lessons, and appealing to various learning styles within the classroom.

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The Winter Holiday Greeting Card Unit gives teachers and students three fun options to choose from to create a holiday project to share. Tutorials and projects are included for:

• Video eCard utilizing Kizoa (www.kizoa.com)

• Animated greeting card utilizing Microsoft PowerPoint

• Printable paper card, designed in Microsoft Word

Kizoa is a free Web 2.0 tool which allows students to create and edit videos online, as well as create ecards, photo collages, and edit photos. They can then share their finished product online or by saving it to their computer. No download is required to use the product, making it easy for teachers who are not able to download software on classroom computers to still give their students a choice in learning. The quick start tutorial included with the lesson is intended to help students get started with the program and then use the resources within the program to refine their creations. General project instructions and expectations, along with a grading rubric are also included.

They can also utilize Microsoft PowerPoint to create an animated greeting card. A complete, step-by-step instruction guide is included, along with the project expectations and rubric.

The third option is a more traditional paper card, created in Microsoft Word. A complete, step-by-step instruction guide is included, along with the project expectations and rubric.

Choose one for your students or let them choose! This is a great activity for that week before Winter Break

This lesson is great for distance learning/remote learning. You can upload it to your school's learning management system (Google Classroom, Edmodo, Canvas, etc.) or share with students via Google Drive.

Files Included with this Lesson

• Teacher Notes and Resources

• Quick Getting Started Guide: Kizoa Tutorial for Students

• Video eCard Project Expectations & Rubric for Kizoa

• Animated eCard in Microsoft PowerPoint: Step-by-Step tutorial

• Animated eCard in Microsoft PowerPoint Project Expectations & Rubric

• Winter Holiday Printable Card in Microsoft Word: Step-by-Step tutorial

• Winter Holiday Printable Card in Microsoft Word: Student Expectations & Rubric

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Start your lesson off right with this no prep Medieval History Riddle Bell Ringers video - excellent for your middle and high school history students in the Video Bellringers for the TikTok generation. Build their contextual knowledge with targeted content knowledge.

Imagine your class sitting before the bell with notebooks open, writing down their response to the question and anxiously waiting for you to reveal the video behind the question. This is what our VIDEO BELL RINGERS guarantee!

It includes:

• 45 individual video riddles (10 Weeks plus some spares) of Curriculum content mystery riddles
• Covers a whole term of lessons.
• 25 seconds in length with a timer
• If you want your students more time to answer simply pauses the video.
• Incorporate them into your other revisions activities.
• Reusable year after year.
• Downloads as a single ZIP file. (not preview on the google drive)

Common Core Outcomes:

For Grades 6-8: Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies 6-8: RH.6-8.2, RH.6-8.3, RH.6-8.4,

For Grades 9-12: Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies 9-10 & 11-12: RH.9-10.2, RH.9-10.3, RH.9-10.4,

Australian Curriculum Links

• The way of life in Medieval Europe (social, cultural, economic and political features) and the roles and relationships of different groups in society (ACDSEH008)
• Significant developments and/or cultural achievements, such as changing relations between Islam and the West (including the Crusades), architecture, medieval manuscripts and music (ACDSEH050)
• Continuity and change in society in ONE of the following areas: crime and punishment; military and defence systems; towns, cities and commerce (ACDSEH051)
• Dominance of the Catholic Church and the role of significant individuals such as Charlemagne (ACDSEH052)

Video shorts are an effective tool in history classes, especially for middle and high school students, due to their engaging and concise nature. These brief, visually stimulating videos cater to the digital media habits of younger audiences, enhancing engagement and retention. They combine visual elements like images and maps with storytelling, making historical events more relatable and memorable. Additionally, their versatility allows them to complement traditional teaching methods, serving as useful introductions or summaries to lessons, and appealing to various learning styles within the classroom.

Enjoy this resource! Don't forget to follow my store for more awesome products and rate this product for your TeachShare credits :)

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Start your lesson off right with this no prep Medieval History Riddle Bell Ringers video - excellent for your middle and high school history students in the Video Bellringers for the TikTok generation. Build their contextual knowledge with targeted content knowledge.

Imagine your class sitting before the bell with notebooks open, writing down their response to the question and anxiously waiting for you to reveal the video behind the question. This is what our VIDEO BELL RINGERS guarantee!

It includes:

• 45 individual video riddles (10 Weeks plus some spares) of Curriculum content mystery riddles
• Covers a whole term of lessons.
• 25 seconds in length with a timer
• If you want your students more time to answer simply pauses the video.
• Incorporate them into your other revisions activities.
• Reusable year after year.
• Downloads as a single ZIP file. (not preview on the google drive)

Common Core Outcomes:

For Grades 6-8: Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies 6-8: RH.6-8.2, RH.6-8.3, RH.6-8.4,

For Grades 9-12: Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies 9-10 & 11-12: RH.9-10.2, RH.9-10.3, RH.9-10.4,

Australian Curriculum Links

• The way of life in Medieval Europe (social, cultural, economic and political features) and the roles and relationships of different groups in society (ACDSEH008)
• Significant developments and/or cultural achievements, such as changing relations between Islam and the West (including the Crusades), architecture, medieval manuscripts and music (ACDSEH050)
• Continuity and change in society in ONE of the following areas: crime and punishment; military and defence systems; towns, cities and commerce (ACDSEH051)
• Dominance of the Catholic Church and the role of significant individuals such as Charlemagne (ACDSEH052)

Video shorts are an effective tool in history classes, especially for middle and high school students, due to their engaging and concise nature. These brief, visually stimulating videos cater to the digital media habits of younger audiences, enhancing engagement and retention. They combine visual elements like images and maps with storytelling, making historical events more relatable and memorable. Additionally, their versatility allows them to complement traditional teaching methods, serving as useful introductions or summaries to lessons, and appealing to various learning styles within the classroom.

Enjoy this resource! Don't forget to follow my store for more awesome products and rate this product for your TeachShare credits :)

People that have purchased this resource have also purchased -

✅ ➡ USA History

✅ ➡ USA History Unit One

✅ ➡ USA History Unit Two

✅ ➡ USA History Unit Three

✅ ➡ USA History Unit Four

✅ ➡ USA History Unit Five

✅ ➡ v ☭️ Cold War

✅ ➡ American Revolution

✅ ➡ ⚔ US Civil War

✅ ➡ ✈ World War Two

✊ USA Civil Rights

☥ Ancient History

and

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Start your lesson off right with this no prep US History Riddle Bell Ringers videos from Colonial settlement to the modern period - excellent for your middle and high school history students in the Video Bellringers for the TikTok generation. Build their contextual knowledge with targeted content knowledge.

Imagine your class sitting before the bell with notebooks open, writing down their response to the question and anxiously waiting for you to reveal the video behind the question. This is what our VIDEO BELL RINGERS guarantee!

It includes:

• 85 individual video riddles (10 Weeks plus some spares) of Curriculum content mystery riddles
• Cover a semester of lessons
• 25 seconds in length with a timer
• If you want your students more time to answer simply pauses the video.
• Use the different topics as you move through your program over the years
• Incorporate them into your other revisions activities.
• Reusable year after year.
• Downloads as a single ZIP file. (not preview on the google drive)

Common Core Outcomes:

For Grades 6-8: Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies 6-8: RH.6-8.2, RH.6-8.3, RH.6-8.4,

For Grades 9-12: Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies 9-10 & 11-12: RH.9-10.2, RH.9-10.3, RH.9-10.4,

Video shorts are an effective tool in history classes, especially for middle and high school students, due to their engaging and concise nature. These brief, visually stimulating videos cater to the digital media habits of younger audiences, enhancing engagement and retention. They combine visual elements like images and maps with storytelling, making historical events more relatable and memorable. Additionally, their versatility allows them to complement traditional teaching methods, serving as useful introductions or summaries to lessons, and appealing to various learning styles within the classroom.

Enjoy this resource! Don't forget to follow my store for more awesome products and rate this product for your TeachShare credits :)

People that have purchased this resource have also purchased -

✅ ➡ USA History

✅ ➡ USA History Unit One

✅ ➡ USA History Unit Two

✅ ➡ USA History Unit Three

✅ ➡ USA History Unit Four

✅ ➡ USA History Unit Five

✅ ➡ v ☭️ Cold War

✅ ➡ American Revolution

✅ ➡ ⚔ US Civil War

✅ ➡ ✈ World War Two

✊ USA Civil Rights

☥ Ancient History

and

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