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Grade 8

• Strand 1

  • 8.1.A
  • 8.1.B
  • 8.1.C
  • 8.1.D

• Strand 2

  • 8.2.A
  • 8.2.B
  • 8.2.C

• Strand 3

  • 8.3

• Strand 4

  • 8.4

• Strand 5

  • 8.5.A
  • 8.5.B
  • 8.5.C
  • 8.5.D
  • 8.5.E
  • 8.5.F
  • 8.5.G
  • 8.5.H
  • 8.5.I

• Strand 6

  • 8.6.A
  • 8.6.B
  • 8.6.C
  • 8.6.D
  • 8.6.E
  • 8.6.F
  • 8.6.G
  • 8.6.H
  • 8.6.I
  • 8.6.J

• Strand 7

  • 8.7.A
  • 8.7.B
  • 8.7.C
  • 8.7.D

• Strand 8

  • 8.8.A
  • 8.8.B
  • 8.8.C
  • 8.8.D
  • 8.8.D.i
  • 8.8.D.ii
  • 8.8.D.iii
  • 8.8.E
  • 8.8.E.i
  • 8.8.E.ii
  • 8.8.E.iii
  • 8.8.F

• Strand 9

  • 8.9.A
  • 8.9.B
  • 8.9.C
  • 8.9.D
  • 8.9.E
  • 8.9.F
  • 8.9.G

• Strand 10

  • 8.10.A
  • 8.10.B
  • 8.10.B.i
  • 8.10.B.ii
  • 8.10.C
  • 8.10.D
  • 8.10.D.i
  • 8.10.D.ii
  • 8.10.D.iii
  • 8.10.D.iv
  • 8.10.D.v
  • 8.10.D.vi
  • 8.10.D.vii
  • 8.10.E

• Strand 11

  • 8.11.A
  • 8.11.B
  • 8.11.C
  • 8.11.D

• Strand 12

  • 8.12.A
  • 8.12.B
  • 8.12.C
  • 8.12.D
  • 8.12.E
  • 8.12.F
  • 8.12.G
  • 8.12.H
  • 8.12.H.i
  • 8.12.H.ii
  • 8.12.I
  • 8.12.J

TEKS ELA Standard: 8.10.A

plan a first draft by selecting a genre appropriate for a particular topic, purpose, and audience using a range of strategies such as discussion, background reading, and personal interests

Maze Generator

Create and print mazes for your students – with bonus side quests!

Two Animals Switch Biomes

What if a capybara and a kangaroo rat switched homes? Would their adaptations be helpful at all?

Holiday Shuffle – Day vs Date

Wouldn’t some holidays be better on a certain day of the week? Should Thanksgiving have a set date?

Change A Story’s Genre

What if we rewrote a story’s climax into a totally different genre?

Bobbing for Apples

What is bobbing for apples like… for an apple?

A Halloween Costume Gone Wrong

Let’s go roller skating in a Halloween costume! What could possibly go wrong?

What If… Unreliable Water?

What would the consequences be if a town’s tap water became… unreliable?

What If… Long Life?

What would the consequences be if all people lived much, much longer?

What If… No Sleep?

What would the consequences be if no one had to sleep anymore?

New Uses For A Pencil

So, what can a pencil be used for other than writing and drawing?

Random Emoji Prompt Generator

Click up an interesting, visual writing prompt suitable for any grade or purpose.

Thanksgiving Photo Writing

Starting with an old-timey photo, students will write from a particular item’s point of view.

A Lunar Survival Mission

A favorite of mine! This task is delightfully complex and ambiguous, forcing students to make choices without enough information and with no right answer. How will they survive on the moon for three days?

The Pros and Cons of Producers and Consumers

Sure, students might know the difference between a producer and a consumer… but have they considered how they feel about each other? What, in a producer’s opinion, are the pros and cons of a consumer?

SCAMPER: Scaffolding Creativity

Asking students to “think creatively” won’t get you far. They won’t know how to start, they’ll get stuck with simple ideas, or they’ll just go completely wild. SCAMPER is a tool for scaffolding the process of creativity.

Using Creativity Tools To Develop A Learning Exploration: Step One

Kathryn Haydon begins a series on how to design an independent learning exploration.

Create A Civilization Introduction

Combine social studies, science, and language arts in this year-long creative project!

Create A Creature

Create a new creature based on the adaptations of existing creatures from the same biome.