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8th Grade Games

Practice eighth-grade skills through classroom games, team review, and problem-solving challenges. Browse math, literacy, science, and social-studies games.

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Hatchet Reading Comprehension Games teaching resource preview
Reading & writing

Hatchet Reading Comprehension Games

Provide multiple game-based review formats (task cards, Jeopardy-style PowerPoint, Google Slides version) to build reading comprehension and higher-order-thinking vocabulary around the novel Hatchet by Gary Paulsen.

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Multiple File Types
Level
5–8
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8th Grade End of Year ELA Review Worksheets & Games teaching resource preview
Reading & writing

8th Grade End of Year ELA Review Worksheets & Games

8th Grade End of Year ELA Review Worksheets & Games Prepare your students for high school success with this rigorous and engaging Grade 8 End-of-Year ELA Review Packet ! This comprehensive middle school ELA resource helps eighth graders strengthen analytical reading, argument writing, MLA citation, allegory analysis, rhetorical skills,…

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PDF
Level
8
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Light - Reflection and Refraction Dominoes Game for Middle School teaching resource preview
Math & problem solving

Light - Reflection and Refraction Dominoes Game for Middle School

Review and reinforce physics concepts of light reflection and refraction (reflection types, image formation in plane mirrors/periscopes, refraction through media of different density, real vs. apparent depth) through a matching dominoes game.

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Multiple File Types
Level
5–9
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Citing Evidence Digital Game teaching resource preview
Cross-curricular practice

Citing Evidence Digital Game

A teacher's guide for a digital, self-checking Google Slides game that has students review the 4 steps of citing evidence and apply them to an embedded text.

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PDF
Level
6–8
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Map Wars: Africa Edition | Interactive Geography Game teaching resource preview
Social studies

Map Wars: Africa Edition | Interactive Geography Game

A two-team, 'Battleship'-style board game (per the file's own Teacher Instructions) used for pre- and post-learning assessment of students' knowledge of a political map of Africa — students place hidden 'bases' on countries and try to locate the other team's bases.

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PDF
Level
5–8
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Forces Bingo Game teaching resource preview
Science & discovery

Forces Bingo Game

Review middle-school physics/forces vocabulary and definitions through a bingo game.

Answers included
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PDF
Level
6–8
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Cyber Civility Tic Tac Toe SEL Game teaching resource preview
Social skills & wellbeing

Cyber Civility Tic Tac Toe SEL Game

SEL/digital-citizenship trivia game (Hollywood-Squares-style tic-tac-toe) teaching cyber civility, cyberbullying, and digital footprint concepts.

Answers included Editable
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Microsoft PowerPoint
Level
5–10
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Nettrix Originals Game Packet teaching resource preview
Movement & games

Nettrix Originals Game Packet

A physical education game packet of 10 net/racket/striking games (each named after a popular streaming show), each with a lesson plan, gym layout visual, and supplemental materials, to build net-game skills, teamwork, and striking with an implement.

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PDF
Level
8–11
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Ice Breakers for Middle School teaching resource preview
Cross-curricular practice

Ice Breakers for Middle School

A teacher's personal collection of ten favorite back-to-school ice breaker activities for middle school, designed to help students get comfortable with classmates and the teacher at the start of the year.

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PDF
Level
6–8
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Roll & Respond-Self-Care Bingo Game teaching resource preview
Social skills & wellbeing

Roll & Respond-Self-Care Bingo Game

Give students structured discussion/reflection prompts on physical, emotional, and social self-care through a dice-based bingo game.

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PDF
Level
4–8
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Life Fit Book 3: Active Lifestyle Activities teaching resource preview
Movement & games

Life Fit Book 3: Active Lifestyle Activities

Photocopy-master activity book of PE/physical-education activities to foster an active lifestyle for students ages 11-13, for use in whole-class, small-group, or individual PE settings.

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PDF
Level
6–8
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Beginning Algebra teaching resource preview
Math & problem solving

Beginning Algebra

Students practice algebra and related number skills through code puzzles, grids and other problem-solving activities. Topics include order of operations, exponents, integers, fractions, percents, graphing, and equations and inequalities . Worked guidance supports the exercises, and many activities use answers to reveal a message or complete a puzzle. Choose pages to follow your instruction and use the answer key to review both calculations and puzzle results.

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PDF
Level
6–8
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