search
user.png
vertical menu
resources by type
resources by grade
resources by subject
other resources

Classroom resources

8th Grade Activities Page 115

3,209 resources

Browse by lesson focus

Find your next lesson

Choose the topic or kind of practice you need.

Showing 2737–2760 of 3209 resources

Most relevant
alt down
All File Types
alt down
Any Time
alt down
filter nav Show filters
Sort by: Most relevant
GCSE Poetry Lesson: ‘Eden Rock’ by Charles Causley teaching resource preview
Art, movement & wellbeing

GCSE Poetry Lesson: ‘Eden Rock’ by Charles Causley

A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis PowerPoint lesson guiding students through close reading of 'Eden Rock' by Charles Causley, covering author/poet context, first reading and annotation, tone and language analysis, structure questions, and an academic PETAL-paragraph writing task. The lesson frames the poem around nostalgia and childhood memory.

Editable
File
Microsoft PowerPoint
Level
9–12
Download
Country Study Presentation - Qatar - Middle East - West Asia teaching resource preview
Art, movement & wellbeing

Country Study Presentation - Qatar - Middle East - West Asia

Introduces students to Qatar's transformation from a pearling and fishing society into a wealthy natural-gas exporting nation, presented as an illustrated country-study slideshow covering Qatar's location, quick facts, language, history, geography, economy, cities, and culture.

File
PDF
Level
7–12
Download
GCSE Poetry Lesson: Half-Past Two by U A Fanthorpe teaching resource preview
Art, movement & wellbeing

GCSE Poetry Lesson: Half-Past Two by U A Fanthorpe

U.A. Fanthorpe's poem "Half-Past Two," about a child kept after school who does not yet understand clock time, is unpacked slide by slide in a GCSE-level English literature lesson built around close reading and analytical writing. The slideshow opens with learning intentions and a glossary of critical terms (narrator, third person, repetition, portmanteau, emotive language, personification, contraction, oxymoron), then supplies biographical context on Fanthorpe before presenting the full poem text twice for annotation. Stanza-by-stanza question sets walk students through content, language, and structure analysis, including the poem's invented compound words like "Gettinguptime" and "timeyouwereofftime," before a PETAL (Point, Evidence, Technique, Analysis, Link) paragraph frame and an extended-response homework task close out the lesson. A model "possible answer" in three bullet points on the poem's tone is included so students can compare their own analysis against a worked example. For another GCSE poem taught with the same PETAL paragraph framework, Vernon Scannell’s ‘Nettles’ offers stanza-by-stanza analysis practice on a different poem.

Editable
File
Microsoft PowerPoint
Level
9–12
Download
Dark Water Rising Novel Study Unit teaching resource preview
Reading & writing

Dark Water Rising Novel Study Unit

A 27-chapter novel study unit for Marian Hale's 'Dark Water Rising,' providing comprehension worksheets, vocabulary/spelling practice, historical reference material, exit quizzes, writing prompts, and summative assessment for a full-book unit.

Answers included
File
PDF
Level
5–7
Download
Country Study Presentation - Serbia - Balkans - Europe teaching resource preview
Art, movement & wellbeing

Country Study Presentation - Serbia - Balkans - Europe

Introduces students to Serbia's central role in Balkan history and its Slavic, Byzantine, and Ottoman cultural influences, presented as an illustrated country-study slideshow covering Serbia's location, quick facts, language, history, geography, economy, cities, and culture.

File
PDF
Level
7–12
Download
CURRENT: Today's Music in the Classroom V3 N1 teaching resource preview
Art, movement & wellbeing

CURRENT: Today's Music in the Classroom V3 N1

A music-education teaching unit (Volume 3, Number 1) that uses the song 'Popular Song' by Mika & Ariana Grande to teach music vocabulary, listening/analysis skills, and curriculum-aligned music concepts.

Answers included
File
PDF
Level
5–8
Download
Country Study Presentation on the Bahamas - North America - Caribbeans teaching resource preview
Art, movement & wellbeing

Country Study Presentation on the Bahamas - North America - Caribbeans

Introduces students to the Bahamas as an archipelago nation, its colonial and independence history, and tourism-driven economy, presented as an illustrated country-study slideshow covering The Bahamas's location, quick facts, language, history, geography, economy, cities, and culture.

File
PDF
Level
7–12
Download
ESL Vocabulary Flashcards - Most Common Adjectives - Farsi teaching resource preview
Art, movement & wellbeing

ESL Vocabulary Flashcards - Most Common Adjectives - Farsi

Bilingual English-Farsi (Persian) flashcard set pairing 40 common English adjectives with their opposites (antonym pairs), each shown alongside its Farsi (Persian) translation, for ESL/EFL adjective-vocabulary instruction.

File
PDF
Level
6–12
Download
GCSE Poetry Lesson: ‘Love’s Philosophy’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley teaching resource preview
Art, movement & wellbeing

GCSE Poetry Lesson: ‘Love’s Philosophy’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley

A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis PowerPoint lesson guiding students through close reading of 'Love' by Percy Bysshe Shelley, covering author/poet context, first reading and annotation, tone and language analysis, structure questions, and an academic PETAL-paragraph writing task. The lesson frames the poem around natural imagery used to argue for…

Editable
File
Microsoft PowerPoint
Level
9–12
Download
Structure of the Skeleton teaching resource preview
Art, movement & wellbeing

Structure of the Skeleton

A GCSE PE (UK secondary anatomy & physiology) lesson presentation teaching the four bone shape classifications (long, short, flat, irregular) and how bone shape relates to function and range of movement in sport.

File
Microsoft PowerPoint
Level
9–11
Download
GCSE Poetry Lesson: ‘Loves Dog’ by Jen Hadfield teaching resource preview
Art, movement & wellbeing

GCSE Poetry Lesson: ‘Loves Dog’ by Jen Hadfield

A GCSE English Literature poetry-analysis PowerPoint lesson guiding students through close reading of 'Loves Dog' by Jen Hadfield, covering author/poet context, first reading and annotation, tone and language analysis, structure questions, and an academic PETAL-paragraph writing task. The lesson frames the poem around the gifts and curses of a close…

Editable
File
Microsoft PowerPoint
Level
9–12
Download