Grade 8 SCIENCE Report Card Comments | Ontario | EDITABLE | BRITISH COLUMBIA

Write your best Grade 8 Ontario Science report card comments faster than ever! This Science report card comment bank contains high-quality options that address, STEM skills, cells, fluids, systems, water and more. Copy and paste directly into your report card program or edit to personalize for your students.

Whether you're a new teacher, new to grade 8, or just looking for new ideas, this will help. The comments included in this resource can be used for Progress reports, Term reports as well as End of Year reports!

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• 2023 - Aspen version added
• 2022 - Comments added to align with the new Ontario Science Curriculum
  • STEM Skills and Connections (including Coding!)

• 2020 - 2021 - British Columbia comments added 
• 2019 - Maplewood, PowerSchool and eTeacher versions added
• 2018 - Original Ontario Health and Physical Education comments created

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✪  Comments are FULLY EDITABLE

✪ Copy and paste directly into Aspen, PowerSchool, Maplewood, and eTeacher

✪ A generic version is also available

✪  Comments are written in complete sentences

✪  Comments are written using parent-friendly language

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✔  Comments for Progress Report and Report Cards

✔  Progress Reports 

• comments written and organized based on Science Inquiry skills
  • Questioning and Predicting, Planning and Conducting, Processing and analyzing data and Information, Evaluating, Applying and Innovating, Communicating

• comments are included for each level 
  • D, W, V for Progress Reports 

• Next steps are built-in

✔  Report Cards

• comments written and organized by curriculum expectations
• comments are included for each level
  • 1 - 4 for full-length report cards

• Next steps are built-in

✔  All strands and expectations are addressed

✪  Includes an UPDATED Ontario Science (2022) curriculum report card comment bank (+150 comments)

• STEM Skills and Connections
• Life Systems - Cells
• Matter and Energy - Fluids
• Structures and Mechanisms - Systems in Action
• Earth and Space Systems - Water Systems

✪  Includes an UPDATED BC Science curriculum report card comment bank (+160 comments)

• Curricular Competency 
  • Questioning and Predicting
  • Planning and Conducting
  • Processing and Analyzing Data and Information
  • Evaluating
  • Applying and Innovating
  • Communicating

• Content
  • Characteristics of life
  • Cell Theory
  • Photosynthesis and cellular respiration
  • Micro-organisms
  • Kinetic Molecular Theory (KMT)
  • Atomic Theory
  • Protons, Neutrons, and Quarks
  • Electrons and leptons
  • Electromagnetic radiation
  • Light
  • Plate tectonic movement
  • Geological events
  • First Peoples knowledge
  • Layers of Earth

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USING ASPEN, POWERSCHOOL, MAPLEWOOD OR eTEACHER? 

✏️  Download the FILE to receive a link to access all comments in one easy-to-use folder.

✏️  Choose the reporting program you would like to use 

✏️  Select the comment you like - copy and paste it directly into your reporting program  OR

✏️ Make a copy of the file to edit for personalization and save for future use

✏️ Copy and paste it directly into your reporting program 

USING A DIFFERENT PROGRAM? NO PROBLEM!

✏️  Download the FILE for a link to access all comments in one easy-to-use folder.

✏️  Choose the GENERIC VERSION and then the subject 

✏️ Make a copy of the file (Optional: Edit to personalize)

✏️ Use ‘Find and Replace’ to quickly change student name and pronouns.

✏️ Copy and paste it directly into your reporting program 

❣️❣️❣️ Write your best report cards in record time! ❣️❣️❣️

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Q: Can I use these report card comments if I’m not teaching in Ontario or BC?

A: Absolutely! These comment banks were written to address the Ontario and BC curriculum but we have teachers in Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan and Yukon using our report card comment banks.

Q: I teach Science to multiple grades. Do you have a package available for subject specialists? 

A: Contact us at pastthepotholes@gmail.com and we’ll be glad to put together a discounted custom package of resources for you.

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