As quiet as a mouse or as quiet as a cucumber? Kids will learn the definition of a simile, then use pictures as clues to complete the similes.

A useful overview of terrestrial biomes, including a climate key.

Read about the westward expansion of the United States and respond to questions about the informational text.

Students interpret slopes and y-intercepts of lines of best fit based on real-world scenarios in this eighth-grade worksheet!

Get your learners thinking and writing creatively with this fun, summer-themed writing prompt about finding something mysterious buried in the sand!

Students practice identifying outliers and the types of associations shown on scatter plots in this eighth-grade data and graphing worksheet!

Explore the strength (or magnitude) of magnetic forces with this two-page physics worksheet for middle grades!

Meet Squanto, a man said to have shared his knowledge with the Pilgrims to help them survive in a new land.

Investigate one of ancient Rome's many famous engineering achievements, Roman baths, with this graphic organizer!

Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

Use sugar cubes, ice cubes or blocks to build each cube or rectangular prism. Then, count up the cubes and write down the volume.

Analyze different points of views and perspectives in a text with this excerpt from Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women.

After completing S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, allow students to connect to the theme of identity with this engaging reflection activity! 

Consider the perspective of settlers in the Chesapeake Colonies in this creative worksheet! 

Check out this Lewis and Clark expedition map that shows the route's landmarks then and now.

Children get into the holiday spirit as they complete this Thanksgiving puzzle.

Introduce readers to the poem “Impressions” by American poet Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson with this eighth-grade reading comprehension worksheet.

Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they’re reading with this engaging reading activity!

Using the brothers from Ender's Game, our writing worksheet gives your child the opportunity to examine any rivalries between him and his siblings or friends.

With this exercise, your students will have the chance to use division to solve multi-step word problems with real world contexts.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions after students read chapters 1–6 of Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief. 

Introduce students to the ecological benefits of terracing with this middle grades science worksheet!

Studying the human body? Get to know your body inside and out with this muscle diagram.

Take a crack at recreating an ancient art made famous by the Incan empire. Color in a sample textile, then use the next page to create your own from scratch.

Learners offer advice to a younger version of themselves in this engaging reflective writing activity.

Students gain more practice solving systems of linear equations using the elimination method with this eighth-grade algebra worksheet!