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This presentation allows students to review earthquakes, seismic waves, and faults.

Here is an example of our first Ancient Twitter. Students choose a scientist to research and then create a tweet as if they were that scientist. The tweets are meant to tell us a little about that scientist and their life. Then we share one scientist's tweet each day as students walk in the room.

Use any or all of these labs to help students practice the scientific method. Some come with helpful hints or what to write as research, variables, constants, etc. I have also used portions of this as a hands-on summative assignment instead of a test.

Here are over 30 questions and answers that you can use throughout the year as bell ringers or at the end of the year as part of your state test prep/final exam review. Answers are included. These questions are aligned to the 8th grade science curriculum.

presentation or pdf explaining lake effect snow

These posters will help you build a classroom mindset promoting kindness, effort, and positivity. I like to post one each week for the first half of the year and then revisit them for the second half as we grow as learners and people. Students can train their brain to believe in themselves and others.

Use this interactive calendar time with your students both in the classroom and at home! I found that I needed to create a calendar time that I could project for all students to see. Best part? It's interactive! You can move all of the pictures to build you calendar and students can take turns interacting with the days of the week, weather graph, and calendar.

Here is a power point that I have perfected over the years. It includes information on abiotic vs. biotic factors, characteristics of living things, classification systems, autotrophs vs. heterotrophs, and the 6 kingdoms! You will love this information-packet power point.

Use this presentation to analyze the height, weight, and age of various athletes. Students will then calculate averages and determine "the ideal athlete for each sport" OR which sport a skateboarder, horse jockey, and figure skater, might prefer to their own.

Use this presentation to review polygons: quadrilaterals, and triangles with individual students, parterns, small group, or your whole class. There are ten questions with answers and a bonus.

10 questions refreshers for fractions, multiplication, division, measurement, geometry, and area/perimeter.

Clues with answers provided that will review the first semester of 8th grade science including Earth's Interior, Earthquakes, Weathering and Erosion, and Land Features. I use this for review bingo-students can make their boards as I read the red answers, then I will read the clues in random order.

This power point is great for Smart boards etc. Its slides are linked to the first one so that students can take turns matching vocabulary terms to their definitions. Just like in the game "Memory", students must remember what they have seen so they can make each correct match.

Use live data to help students analyze information using technology! Students can work in groups of two or four to complete this presentation and even be assigned their own tasks!

Here are some ideas and printouts for classroom rewards that don't cost you money! Simply print them as posters for students to point to, or smaller handouts for students to choose as part of your classroom management system.

Use this power point each day as a bell ringer or ticket out the door. You could also use it as an end of the year review!

This interactive jeopardy review game covers the following topics: solar radiation, thermal energy, winds, air masses, fronts, and vocabulary.

Can your students guess each biome just by reading these poems? Each gives the key abiotic factors in a fun way.

Set these up around the room and students can rotate through them to review lab safety.

This presentation offers students multiple ideas of what they could make to review earth's interior, earthquakes, and/or volcanoes. Students may create something with their family and present it to the class to re-teach us about one of the past three chapters.