This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 8th grade Science content.
This resource accompanies our Rethink 8th Grade Science course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.
In this activity, students use coins to model molecules and demonstrate how mass in conserved in a chemical reaction.
With this resource, students will observe a chemical equation and notice the number of total atoms on the reactant side equal the total number of atoms on the product side.
This resource is an article discussing the processes of photysynthesis and respiration.
In this lab activity, students will investigate chemical changes that occur when acids and bases react. It is meant to introduce the concepts of chemical changes, mass of gases, conservation of mass, and balancing equations. Students will make qualitative observations and quantitative measurements.
In this lesson, students watch a brief episode of Science Matters. Students are tasked with taking notes, completing several assignments, and recording lab data. This lesson focuses on physical and chemical properties and changes.
This supplemental resource is to be used to record notes during the video used in the lesson "Chemistry 201: Physical and Chemical Properties and Changes."
This interactive resource includes 10 equations for students to practice balancing equations.
This interactive resource provides students practice with balancing a combustion reaction equation.
This short interactive tutorial provides students practice in balancing chemical equations.
In this activity, students use a model to demonstrate the reactants and products in the combustion reaction.
This resource is a compilation of text, videos, and other elements to create a scaffolded 5E learning experience for students. In this lesson, students investigate the law of conservation of mass.
Students will analyze the chemical equation for the reaction between vinegar and baking soda. They will make the connection between the written chemical equation, the molecular model and the real substances in the chemical reaction. Students will see that the gas produced in the actual reaction is also written in the products of the equation. Students will also change the amount of one or more reactants and see how the change affects the amount of products. Included with, and linked into, this lesson plan are a student activity sheet, a reactants image, a products image, an image showing mass is conserved, a Controlling the Amount of Products formed image as well as an answer key for the student activity sheet.
In this lab activity, students will design an experiment to verify the law of conservation of mass.
In this problem set, learners will answer a series of questions about the complex molecule, Propanal. Answer key is provided. This is part of Earth Math: A Brief Mathematical Guide to Earth Science and Climate Change.
In this activity, students investigate if steel wool will weigh more or less if burned and examine the chemical reaction involved.
Students will do a hand-on experiment to create a precipiate and analyze chemical equations to see that all atoms in the reactants end up in the products.
In this problem set, learners will practice fractions by working with the ratios of various molecules or atoms in different compounds to answer a series of questions. Answer key is provided. This is part of Earth Math: A Brief Mathematical Guide to Earth Science and Climate Change.
In this lab activity, students will investigate the law of conservation of mass by weighing chewing gum before and after it is chewed.