8th Grade Chemistry Activities

Are All Pennies Created Equal?

A penny saved is a...penny that's no longer a penny?! Teach your students about the chemical compounds within a penny…

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What Materials Make the Best Crystals?

While learning about the properties of different saturated solutions, pupils grow crystals using salt and sugar to…

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Pasteur's Crossword Puzzle

By completing a crossword puzzle, students will learn about Louis Pasteur and his work.

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What's in a Color? Experiments in Chromatography

Introduce your students to chromatography with this printable science activity. Students separate the colors in magic…

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Can You Be a Human Battery?

Introduce your pupils to the world of batteries with this printable science activity. Pupils use a multimeter or direct…

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Activity: Radioactive Dating

Read the passage in this science printable to learn about the history of radioactive dating and its uses. Students will…

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Activity: Acid Rain

Learn about acid rain through the reading passage, U.S. mapping activity, and research questions in this Earth science…

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Review chemical reactions in the human digestive system with this science printable. Students use the information in the…

Antacids Activity

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Acids, Bases and Salts

Digestive System

Chemical Compounds

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Students determine which of four solutions is the best at cleaning pennies and whether the pH of a solution is related…

Clean Money

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Enrich your study of compounds and mixtures with this activity about polymers. This printable for physical science…

Polymers Activity

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Molecules

Chemical Compounds

Energy and Matter

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Which Is More Acidic, Snow or Rain?

Using this hands-on science project, familiarize pupils with the pH scale by having them use pH paper to monitor the…

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Students create a poster that uses words and pictures to present basic information about matter. Assesses their…

A Matter of Fact

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Energy and Matter

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Students create a graph of volume versus temperature for a gas. Assesses their understanding of gas behavior and line…

Balloon Graph

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Physics

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Students create models of six molecules, each containing six carbon atoms. Tests students' understanding of…

More Molecular Models

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Molecules

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Students design an experiment to determine whether the chemical reaction that takes place as the iron in steel wool…

Chemical Reactions

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Chemistry

Chemical Change

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Students create a poster that classifies compounds based on the types of bonds they contain. Tests students'…

Bonds and Compounds

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Chemistry

Chemical Formulas

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Students create a trivia game about polymers, alloys, ceramics, glass, and radioactive elements. Assesses students'…

Materials Pursuit

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Chemical Properties

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Chemical Interactions Printable Book (6-10)

Use this printable book to teach your elementary class some chemistry basics. Students perform hands-on experiments to…

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Families of Elements Activity

Review the families of elements and the periodic table with this printable enrichment activity for physical science.

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Chemistry

Periodic Law and Table

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Elemental, My Dear Watson Activity

Engage students in an investigation of the periodic table with this chemical detective activity about atomic numbers.

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Chemistry

Periodic Law and Table

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Activity: Elements in the Crust

Supplement your study of minerals and their properties with this Earth science activity. Students will research an…

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Earth Science

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