Free Grade 8 lesson plans in math, ELA, science, social studies, art, drama, history and gym, in English and French, with challenging tasks, discussion and extensions for strong students.
In this 50-minute Grade 8 history lesson, students act as investigators hired to solve a fictional 1850 bridge collapse. They compare four conflicting witness accounts and rank how reliable each…
In this 45-minute Grade 8 drama lesson, small groups stage silent frozen scenes and work out how to make an audience see who holds power using only height, distance and…
Students read a short made-up history of a town that was abandoned. In pairs, they sort six causes into long-term and short-term, then rank them and defend their top choice.…
Les élèves calculent la masse volumique de six objets à partir de leur masse et de leur volume. Ils comparent ensuite chaque résultat à celle de l’eau pour prédire si…
Students time classmates walking a measured 5-metre path at different paces, then calculate each walker’s speed in metres per second. They practise using speed = distance ÷ time and rearranging…
Students look at passive voice sentences, work out who or what did the action, and rewrite each one in active voice. They also discuss when passive voice is a reasonable…
Students recall perfect squares, then work in pairs to estimate square roots of numbers like 30 or 90 to one decimal place. They place their estimates on a class number…
In this 50-minute Grade 8 lesson, small groups copy a grid map with a river, mountains, forest, and coast. They weigh possible town sites by water, farmland, defense, trade, and…
En 45 minutes, les élèves de 8e année dessinent les organes respiratoires, du nez aux poumons, avec un code couleur, des annotations et des flèches qui suivent le trajet de…
En équipes de détectives, les élèves de 8e année résolvent des systèmes d’équations à deux variables, par substitution ou par élimination, pour retrouver le chat de Madame Dupont. Chaque solution…
In this 45-minute Grade 8 lesson, small groups read accounts of one event, like a labor strike, from opposing sides and chart how each author’s background, audience and word choice…
In this 45-minute Grade 8 lesson, students start with a few minutes of quiet breathing, then keep a private journal about moments that leave them worried or pressured, noting what…