8th Grade Earth Sciences Resources

Spheres of the Earth Lab Station Activity | Earth Systems & Spheres Application

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This fully editable Lab Station Activity on the Spheres of the Earth is meant to get your kids out of their seats and engaged in the content. Each station not only offers a unique opportunity to test your students' knowledge through writing, research, video questions, reading comprehension, and stud

7th - 10th Earth Sciences, Environment, General Science

NGSS MS-ESS2-1, MS-ESS2-4, MS-ESS3-3+1

Also included in: Spheres of the Earth 5E Lesson | Atmosphere, Geosphere, Biosphere, Hydrosphere

Spheres of the Earth 5E Lesson | Atmosphere, Geosphere, Biosphere, Hydrosphere

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The Spheres of the Earth - Atmosphere, Geosphere/Lithosphere, Hydrosphere, & Biosphere - Fully editable and Complete 5E Lesson. This bundle is designed for science students studying Earth’s systems, the four spheres of Earth, and how the atmosphere, geosphere/lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosph

6th - 9th Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment

NGSS MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-3, MS-ESS2-1+6

How Humans Negatively Impact the Environment Reading | Grade 8 and Up

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This reading helps students explore the many ways human activities harm the environment and how those problems are connected. Students learn about climate change, greenhouse gases, coral bleaching, deforestation, biodiversity loss, air and water pollution, nutrient pollution, plastic waste, overfish

8th - 12th Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment

NGSS MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-2, MS-LS2-3+8

Also included in: Science Reading Comprehension Article Mega Bundle | Grade 8 and Up

Smartphones and the Environmental Cost Reading | Grade 8 and Up

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This reading comprehension article helps students explore the environmental cost behind the materials used in smartphones and why a small device can have such large global impacts.Students learn about copper, lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements while also examining how mining, refining, manufac

8th - 12th Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment

NGSS HS-ESS3-1, HS-ESS3-2, HS-ESS3-3+2

Also included in: Science Reading Comprehension Article Mega Bundle | Grade 8 and Up

Ecosystem Roles Cipher Puzzle - Ecology Activity | Producers, Consumers

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Looking for a fun way to review ecosystem roles, food chains, and organism interactions? This Ecosystem Roles Cipher Puzzle gives students a no-prep way to practice identifying how different organisms function in ecosystems such as forests, oceans, grasslands, deserts, and ponds.Students read each c

6th - 9th Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment

NGSS MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-2, MS-LS2-3+2

Also included in: Ecology Concepts Cipher Puzzle Bundle | Ecosystems, Food Webs, Energy Pyramids

Energy Pyramid Levels Cipher Puzzle - Ecology Activity | Trophic Levels, Energy

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TWFScience

Looking for a fun, no-prep way to review energy pyramids, trophic levels, and energy flow in ecosystems? This Energy Pyramid Levels Cipher Puzzle gives students an engaging way to practice identifying where producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers, and top predators belo

6th - 9th Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment

NGSS MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-2, MS-LS2-3+2

Also included in: Ecology Concepts Cipher Puzzle Bundle | Ecosystems, Food Webs, Energy Pyramids

New York State Science Middle School Life Science Curriculum | NYSSLS

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This RESOURCE BUNDLE is for New York Science (NYSSLS) Middle School Life Science teachers who are teaching according to the New York State P-12 Science Learning Standards and want to prepare their students for the Intermediate-Level Science Test. It includes all required NGSS as well as New York Spe

6th - 8th Biology, Earth Sciences, General Science

NGSS MS-LS1-1, MS-LS1-2, MS-LS1-3+17

Food Chain and Food Web Cipher Puzzle - Ecology Activity | Ecology Energy Flow

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Looking for a fun, no-prep way to review food chains, food webs, and ecosystem vocabulary? This Food Chain and Food Web Vocabulary Cipher Puzzle gives students an engaging way to practice important ecology terms while decoding a hidden message.Students read each clue, identify the correct vocabulary

6th - 9th Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment

NGSS MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-2, MS-LS2-3+4

Also included in: Food Chains and Food Webs Worksheet Bundle + Energy Flow in Ecosystems Lesson

Human Impact on Food Webs Cipher Puzzle - Ecology Activity | Overfishing Habitat

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Looking for a fun, no-prep way to review how human activities affect food chains, food webs, and energy flow? This Human Impact on Food Webs Cipher Puzzle gives students an engaging way to practice identifying how overfishing, pollution, habitat loss, pesticide use, and climate change can disrupt ec

6th - 9th Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment

NGSS MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-2, MS-LS2-3+4

Also included in: Food Chains and Food Webs Worksheet Bundle + Energy Flow in Ecosystems Lesson

Introductory Cellular Respiration Cipher Puzzle - Ecology Activity | ATP, Energy

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Looking for a fun, no-prep way to review the basics of cellular respiration? This Introduction to Cellular Respiration Cipher Puzzle gives students an engaging way to practice key vocabulary and concepts related to how cells release energy from food.Students read each clue, identify the correct cell

6th - 9th Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment

NGSS MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-2, MS-LS2-3+4

Also included in: Ecology Concepts Cipher Puzzle Bundle | Ecosystems, Food Webs, Energy Pyramids

Agriculture and Fertilizer Runoff Reading | 6th, 7th, 8th | Runoff and Leaching

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Agriculture and Fertilizer Runoff Reading Comprehension Passage and QuestionsThis ecology and environmental science reading introduces students to how fertilizer runoff affects rivers, lakes, oceans, and drinking water. Students learn why crops need nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus, how the

6th - 8th Earth Sciences, Environment, Marine Science

NGSS MS-ESS3-1, MS-ESS3-3, MS-ESS3-4

Also included in: Human Impact & Sustainability - 13 Reading Article Bundle - 6th 7th 8th Grade

Trophic Levels Cipher Puzzle - Ecology Activity | Energy Pyramids, Food Webs

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Engage your students with this NO PREP, interactive ecology cipher activity focused on trophic levels, consumer types, food chains, energy pyramids, and energy transfer.In this structured challenge, students solve clues by identifying the correct trophic level, consumer type, or energy flow term. Th

6th - 9th Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment

NGSS MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-2, MS-LS2-3+4

Also included in: Food Chains and Food Webs Worksheet Bundle + Energy Flow in Ecosystems Lesson

Producer, Consumer, and Decomposer Cipher Puzzle - Ecology Activity

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TWFScience

Engage your students with this NO PREP, interactive ecology cipher activity focused on producers, consumers, decomposers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, scavengers, detritivores, and consumer levels.In this structured challenge, students solve clues by classifying each organism by its role in th

6th - 9th Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment

NGSS MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-2, MS-LS2-3+4

Also included in: Ecology Concepts Cipher Puzzle Bundle | Ecosystems, Food Webs, Energy Pyramids

Predator, Prey, and Symbiosis Cipher Puzzle - Ecology Activity | Interactions

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Engage your students with this NO PREP, interactive ecology cipher activity focused on predator-prey relationships, symbiosis, mutualism, commensalism, parasitism, competition, cooperation, hosts, and parasites.In this structured challenge, students solve clues by identifying the correct relationshi

6th - 9th Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment

NGSS MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-2, MS-LS2-3+4

Also included in: Food Chains and Food Webs Worksheet Bundle + Energy Flow in Ecosystems Lesson

Ecology Concepts Cipher Puzzle Bundle | Ecosystems, Food Webs, Energy Pyramids

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Engage your students with these NO PREP, interactive ecology ciphers filled with engaging activities focused on energy flow, ecosystems, animal interactions, human impact on the environment, and more.In this GROWING bundle, students solve clues by identifying ecology terms, analyzing food webs and c

6th - 9th Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment

NGSS MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-2, MS-LS2-3+2

Invasive Species and Food Webs Cipher Puzzle - Ecology Activity | Ecosystems

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TWFScience

Engage your students with this NO PREP, interactive ecology cipher activity focused on invasive species, native species, food web disruption, competition, predators, prey, habitat loss, biodiversity, resource decrease, and ecosystem imbalance.In this structured challenge, students solve clues by ide

6th - 9th Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment

NGSS MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-2, MS-LS2-3+4

Also included in: Ecology Concepts Cipher Puzzle Bundle | Ecosystems, Food Webs, Energy Pyramids

Introductory Photosynthesis Cipher Puzzle - Ecology Activity | Chlorophyll

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Engage your students with this NO PREP, interactive photosynthesis cipher activity focused on sunlight, chlorophyll, carbon dioxide, water, glucose, oxygen, stomata, chloroplasts, leaves, roots, and producers.In this structured challenge, students solve clues by identifying the correct photosynthesi

6th - 9th Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment

NGSS MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-2, MS-LS2-3+4

Also included in: Ecology Concepts Cipher Puzzle Bundle | Ecosystems, Food Webs, Energy Pyramids

Real World Ecology Decision Challenges Bundle | Ecosystems Activity

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TWFScience

This Real-World Ecology Decision Challenge Bundle will help your students analyze real-world environmental problems, compare possible solutions, and make evidence-based decisions using science. Each activity gives teachers an easy, NO PREP way to build data analysis, critical thinking, and science r

6th - 10th Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment

NGSS MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-2, MS-LS2-3+2

Human Impact & Sustainability - 13 Reading Article Bundle - 6th 7th 8th Grade

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TWFScience

This grade 6–8 reading bundle introduces students to major environmental challenges caused by human activities and the science behind building a more sustainable future. Across 13 high-interest readings, students explore how energy production, agriculture, mining, waste, pollution, deforestation, an

6th - 8th Earth Sciences, Environment, Marine Science

NGSS MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-2, MS-LS2-3+7

Human Impact & Sustainability - 13 Reading Comprehension Bundle | Grade 8 and Up

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This reading bundle is meant for high school students and higher level grade 8 students. It explores the real-world science behind human impact, environmental change, and the challenge of building a more sustainable future. Across 13 in-depth readings, students investigate how energy production, agr

8th - 12th Earth Sciences, Environment, Marine Science

NGSS HS-LS2-1, HS-LS2-2, HS-LS2-3+11

Water Cycle & Hydrology Data Analysis Graphing Bundle | HIGH SCHOOL

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These three water cycle data graphing activities will help your students understand how precipitation varies by season and location, how temperature affects evaporation, condensation, and cloud formation, and how rainfall, soil type, and infiltration affect runoff and river flow while building stron

6th - 9th Graphing, Earth Sciences, Environment

NGSS HS-ESS3-1, HS-ESS3-3, HS-ESS3-4+1

Also included in: High School Science Graphing and Data Analysis Mega Bundle | Real-World Data Lab

Resource Depletion & Mining Data Graphing Lab Bundle 6th, 7th, 8th Grade

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These three natural resources and resource depletion data graphing activities will help your students understand how human resource use affects availability, how consumption compares with production and new discoveries, and how growing demand for copper and lithium is connected to mining and sustain

6th - 9th Graphing, Earth Sciences, Physical Science

NGSS MS-ESS3-1, MS-ESS3-3, MS-ESS3-4

Also included in: Middle School Science Graphing & Data Analysis Bundle | Real-World Data 6, 7, 8

Hydroponic Food-Growing System STEM Investigation - Soil-free food-growing

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TWFScience

Students will investigate hydroponics, plant growth, and sustainable food production by designing and building their own soil-free food-growing system. Using a simple reservoir, nutrient solution, growing medium, and fast-growing plant, students explore how plants can receive the water and nutrients

6th - 11th Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment

NGSS MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-3

Also included in: STEM Investigations Growing Bundle — Scientific Method, Design, Data & CER

Food Chains and Food Webs Worksheet Bundle + Energy Flow in Ecosystems Lesson

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Help your students understand food chains, food webs, energy flow, trophic levels, and species interactions with this comprehensive middle school ecology worksheet bundle. These 12 resources combine direct instruction, informational readings, video worksheets, digital learning, and engaging cipher p

6th - 10th Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment

NGSS MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-2, MS-LS2-3+16