Welcome to Grade 8 Science Second semester. Workbook and other unassigned worksheets are meant for supplemental learning and practice and do not correlate directly with the modules.

Reference Material

Reference Material

Section 1

Predicting the Future
How to Make a Weather Forecast
Drilling for History
Ice Cores from Antarctica
Under Pressure
How Geysers Work
The Mighty Mississippi
The Dark Side of the Mississippi
Recycling Rocks
Visualizing the Rock Cycle
The Mediterranean Sea: A Geological Perspective
The Tethys Sea
Planets in the Great Beyond
The Moons of Pluto

Section 2

Living with the Stars
Life Cycle of a Star
Black Holes Explained
Visualizing a Black Hole
Fighting Crime with Science
Forensic Evidence Toolkit
Putting Nature to Work
Biotechnology in Action
Magnets in Motion
How Electromagnets Work
Welcome to the Digital Revolution
Visualizing Binary Signals
The Little Device that Changed the World
How Small is a Microchip?
Explosive Power

Section 3

Visualizing an Internal Combustion Engine
Hiding in Plain Sight
Don’t Cuddle the Cuttlefish
Tuning in to TV’s Early Years
How Cathode Ray Tubes Work
Living and Working in Space
Tour the International Space Station
Stressed Out
Eating for Energy
Good Enough to Eat
What’s in Your Closet?
Creating a Healthier World
The Orbiting Junkyard

Section 4

Ridding the World of Pests
Disaster on the Water
A Day that Changed the World
Exploring the Silent World
The Original Americans
Tracing the Heavens in Ancient America
Reading the Instruction Manual of Life
When Cotton Became King
Computing: From Ancient China to Silicon Valley
Lise Meitner: Mother of the Atomic Age
Hurtling into Space
An Introduction to Special Relativity