8th Grade Environment Resources

Landfill & Global Waste Crisis Reading | The Impacts of Landfills | Grade 8 & Up

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Landfill and the Waste Crisis: Environmental, Health, and Global Solutions Reading Comprehension Passage and QuestionsThis reading explores the real-world science behind the global waste crisis and how landfills impact human health, the environment, and climate systems. It helps students understand

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

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

Also included in: Human Impact & Sustainability - 13 Reading Comprehension Bundle | Grade 8 and Up

Deep Sea Mining for Critical Minerals Reading - Human Impact | Grade 8 & Up

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Deep Sea Mining for Critical Minerals: Why It’s Done and the Environmental Consequences Reading Comprehension Passage and QuestionsThis reading introduces students to the growing debate around deep sea mining and the environmental consequences tied to extracting critical minerals from the ocean floo

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

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

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

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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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

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

Fish Population Decline Ecology Decision Challenge Activity | Population Dynamic

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This Fish Population Decline Decision Challenge will help your students understand how limiting factors, nutrient pollution, algae growth, dissolved oxygen, water temperature, and predators can affect a freshwater fish population. This activity gives teachers an easy, NO PREP way to have students an

6th - 10th Biology, Environment, Marine Science

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

Also included in: Real World Ecology Decision Challenges Bundle | Ecosystems Activity

Wolf Reintroduction Ecology Decision Challenge Activity | Population Dynamics

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This Wolf Reintroduction Decision Challenge will help your students understand predator-prey relationships, trophic cascades, carrying capacity, biodiversity, ecosystem balance, and wildlife management trade-offs. This activity gives teachers an easy, NO PREP way to have students analyze ecology dat

6th - 10th Biology, Environment, General Science

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

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

Invasive Species Ecology Decision Challenge Activity | Biodiversity & Ecosystems

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This Invasive Species Decision Challenge will help your students understand how invasive species, food webs, biodiversity, native species, plankton, competition, and human impacts can affect a freshwater ecosystem. This activity gives teachers an easy, NO PREP way to have students analyze ecology da

6th - 10th Biology, Environment, General Science

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

Also included in: Real World Ecology Decision Challenges Bundle | Ecosystems Activity

Mosquito Control Ecology Decision Challenge Activity | Ecosystems Impact

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This Mosquito Control Decision Challenge will help your students understand how pesticides, food webs, non-target organisms, bioaccumulation, human impact, and environmental trade-offs can affect a wetland ecosystem. This activity gives teachers an easy, NO PREP way to have students analyze ecology

6th - 10th Biology, Environment, General Science

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

Also included in: Real World Ecology Decision Challenges Bundle | Ecosystems Activity

Algae Bloom Ecology Decision Challenge | Nutrient Pollution, Fertilizer Runoff

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This Algae Bloom Decision Challenge will help your students understand how nutrient pollution, fertilizer runoff, algae blooms, producers, decomposers, dissolved oxygen, and environmental trade-offs can affect a freshwater ecosystem. This activity gives teachers an easy, NO PREP way to have students

6th - 10th Biology, Environment, General Science

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

Also included in: Real World Ecology Decision Challenges Bundle | Ecosystems Activity

Ecosystem Risk Ecology Decision Challenge | Wetland, Coral Reef Restoration

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This Ecosystem Risk Decision Challenge will help your students understand how biodiversity, habitat loss, climate change sensitivity, human impact, ecosystem services, and conservation trade-offs can affect environmental decision-making. This activity gives teachers an easy, NO PREP way to have stud

6th - 10th Biology, Environment, General Science

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

Also included in: Real World Ecology Decision Challenges Bundle | Ecosystems Activity

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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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