Ontario Grade 8 Full Year Bundle - Math - Science - Social Studies - GOOGLE/PDF

FULL YEAR BUNDLE - Teaching made easy! This DIGITAL AND PDF bundle includes everything you need to teach Math, Science and Social Studies. It covers all the expectations in the Ontario curriculums. It gives you the ability to print worksheets as well as distribute a digital copy of the resource to your students on Google Classroom.

Grade 8 - New Ontario Math Curriculum 2020 – This bundle covers all expectations in the Grade 8 - New Ontario Math Curriculum. Included are 1266 activity sheets for your students to learn the overall and specific expectations outlined by the Ministry of Education.

Strand B - Number (Number Sense and Operations)

Concepts that are covered:

• Very large numbers (trillions) and small numbers using scientific notation
• Perfect squares and square roots
• Estimating square roots using a variety of strategies
• Irrational and rational numbers
• Comparing and ordering rational numbers – fractions, decimals, and integers
• Plotting fractions, integers, decimals, and percents on a number line
• Converting fractions, decimal numbers, and percents
• Understanding percents greater than 100
• BEDMAS using square roots, exponents, and positive/negative integers
• Order of operations written as fractions
• Evaluating exponents
• Multiplying and dividing by powers of 10
• Relationship between multiplying by 0.1 and dividing by 10
• Adding and subtracting integers using numerous strategies – zero pairs, models
• Multiplying and dividing integers using rules and models
• Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions using models and rules
• Identifying proportional and non-proportional relationships in various situations.
• Determining the value of a missing value in a ratio
• Word problems for all basic concepts for students to apply their understanding
• 5 Unit Tests

Strand C - Algebra (Patterns, Equations, Coding)

• Translating growing and shrinking patterns using tables of values and graphs
• Determining pattern rules to extend patterns
• Representing patterns in table of values
• Constant rates and initial values
• Representing patterns using algebraic expressions to help solve for any term in a pattern
• Linear patterns – analyzing patterns in graphs
• Representing linear patterns using equations
• Creating and describing patterns using rational numbers
• Positive and negative integers in patterns
• Exponents in patterns – relationships among rational numbers
• Adding and subtracting monomials with a degree of 1
• Adding binomials with a degree of 1
• Evaluate algebraic expressions that involve rational numbers
• Solve equations that involve multiple terms, integers and decimal numbers
• Solve inequalities that involve integers and multiple terms
• Graph inequalities using a number line and a cartesian plane
• Intro to slope – determining the slope of a line to assist with students graphing 2-variable inequalities
• Defined counts and concurrent coding
• Conditional codes – if/then statements
• Use coding to create programs that display data purposefully
• Analyze data presented in programs and draw conclusions about the data
• 3 Unit Tests – 1 for each strand: Patterns, Equations, and Coding

Strand D - Data (Data Literacy and Probability)

• Identifying graphs and situations that involve one-variable and two-variable data
• Interpreting bar graphs, broken-line graphs, multiple-bar graphs, circles graphs and scatter plots
• Creating a variety of graphs, including circle graphs and scatter plots
• Determining the mean, median, and mode of data sets
• Determining the impact of adding or removing outliers from a data set on the mean, median, and mode
• Finding the missing value in a data set using the mean
• Determining outliers in a data set and how they affect scatter plots and other graphs
• Draw a line of best fit on a scatter plot to allow for predictions to be made about the data
• Describe the relationship between variables as being strong, weak, none, positive, or negative
• Creating and interpreting infographics
• Drawing conclusions about different sets of data
• Thinking critically about misleading graphs
• Using fractions, decimals, and percents to represent the probability of multiple events
• Understanding the difference between theoretical and experimental probability
• Understanding the difference between dependent and independent events
• Comparing theoretical and experimental probabilities of independent and dependent events
• Using tree diagrams to represent independent and dependent events
• Use Venn diagrams to represent probabilities and help solve probability problems

Strand E - Spatial Sense

• Tessellations – regular polygons that tessellate
• Naming tessellations – regular, semi-regular, irregular
• Creating tessellations using translations, reflections, and rotations
• Drawing top, front, and side views of objects
• Isometric drawings of 3D objects
• Cavalier and cabinet drawings
• Perspective drawings using one-point perspectives and multiple vanishing points
• Drawing and interpreting scaled drawings
• Calculating area and volume of shapes and objects using scaled dimensions
• Enlargements and reductions of figures
• Performing and describing dilations using scale factors on a cartesian plane
• Use of mapping rules to determine new coordinates after a transformation – translations, rotations, reflections, and dilations
• Translations, reflections, and rotations of up to 360 degrees on a cartesian plane
• Representing very large numbers (mega, giga, and tera) as well as very small units (micro, nano, and pico)
• Use angle properties (complimentary/supplementary angles, opposite angles) to determine missing angle measurements
• Use angle properties to determine interior angles in all polygons – formula (n-2) x 180
• Determine the perimeter, area, and volume of composite 2D shapes and 3D objects
• Use the Pythagorean theorem to determine if a triangle is a right triangle
• Use the Pythagorean theorem to calculate the length of a side on a right triangle

Strand F - Financial Literacy

• Converting currencies to Canadian (CAD)
• Comparing the values or different currencies
• Answer word problems that involve currency exchanges
• Describing some advantages and disadvantages of various method of payments
• The pros and cons of using different methods of payment to convert currencies
• Assignment – Researching currencies – denominations, value, exchange rate to CAD
• Creating personal well-balanced budgets – income, earnings, expenses, and savings
• Analyzing pre-made budgets that are made for a scenario (e.g. saving for college)
• Creating a financial plan to reach long-term financial goals
• The difference between gross and net income
• Calculating income tax using tax brackets and using this information to calculate net income
• Typical wages and salaries in your community
• Simple interest versus compound interest
• Cost of borrowing over time
• Using compound interest calculators online to see the power of compound interest
• Earnings actualized by investing long-term (compound interest)
• Comparing credit card fees and offers (rewards)
• Customer loyalty programs – research assignment and other activities
• Evaluating incentive programs from different businesses
• Getting more value for your money – buying second hand safely
• Consumer contracts – cell phones, video and music streaming examples
• Unit Test

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This bundle covers the entire *NEW* Grade 8 Science curriculum for 2022!

**Strand A: STEM/Coding included!

New Ontario 2022 Science Curriculum - Grade 8 – Cells. This product was created to cover the NEW 2022 Ontario Science Grade 8 curriculum – Cells.

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is a cell?
• Cell theory
• Importance of a microscope – understanding the function of each part
• Microscope diagram – labelling activity
• Organelles in cells – nucleus, cell membrane, cytoplasm, cell wall, mitochondria and more
• Research assignment – organelle in plant and animal cells
• Diagrams of plant and animal cells
• Comparing plant and animal cells – structure, organelles, size, shape
• Identifying plant and animal cells
• Experiment/activity – building a 3D model of a cell
• Diffusion of molecules in cells
• Osmosis in cells
• Factors affecting diffusion
• Diffusion and the exchange of gas in humans and frogs
• Solutions, solutes, and solvents
• Ideal solutions for cells – osmosis
• Unicellular organisms – Amoeba and Paramecium
• Research assignment – studying unicellular organisms
• Multicellular organisms – humans, worms, and frogs
• Levels of organization – cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems
• Researching organ systems to learn about the organs, tissues, and cells included
• Technologies in cell biology – electron microscopes
• Stem cell technologies treating disease – Alzheimer's and Spinal injuries
• Researching advantages and disadvantages of stem cells
• Cellular agriculture – cultured meat
• Using cultured meats – multiple perspectives (animals, environmentalists, livestock farmers)
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

New Ontario 2022 Science Curriculum - Grade 8 – Systems in Action. This product was created to cover the NEW 2022 Ontario Science Grade 8 curriculum – Systems in Action.

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is a system?
• Purpose, inputs, and outputs of systems
• Important systems in your life
• How systems make difficult decisions to meet the needs of its customers/citizens
• Food processing system – inputs, outputs (waste/emissions), and purpose
• Different points of view related to different systems (school system, transit system)
• Components of systems – computer system, HVAC system, and backhoe system
• Physics – using scientific terms (energy, work, forces, displacement, efficiency)
• Different types of energy – chemical, electrical, thermal, mechanical, nuclear
• Forces – contact and non-contact forces
• Research assignment – understanding the compass
• Describing everyday situations using scientific terms – forces, energy, work, displacement, efficiency
• Displacement versus distance – calculations and reading/questions
• Calculating work using the formula work = force x distance
• Mechanical advantages using simple machines
• Calculating the mechanical advantages of levers, gears, pulleys and inclined planes
• Diagrams of the simple machines and their mechanical advantages
• Lever experiment
• Dissipating heat from mechanical systems
• Friction causing dissipation (sliding friction, static friction, and rolling friction)
• Technologies reducing friction and dissipation (lubricants, wheels, furniture sliders)
• Experiment – phone book friction (sticky notes)
• Calculating efficiency – energy out/total energy in = efficiency
• Importance of instruction booklets – assembly, safe use, maintenance of machine
• Research assignment – instruction manual
• Technological innovations improving productivity – robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), 3D printing
• Research assignment – Industry 4.0 (evolution of industrial revolution)
• Automation of manufacturing industry
• Impact of automation on society, economy, and the environment
• Self-driving autonomous vehicles
• Automation – different points of view
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

New Ontario 2022 Science Curriculum - Grade 8 – Fluids. This product was created to cover the NEW 2022 Ontario Science Grade 8 curriculum – Fluids.

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is a fluid?
• Understanding viscosity
• Volumetric flow rate
• Experiment – comparing viscosities
• Researching the viscosities of various fluids
• Particle theory – affects on fluids
• Relationship between mass, volume, and density
• Density of gases, liquids, and solids
• Calculating density – mass/volume
• Calculating density using diagrams
• Buoyancy – positive buoyancy, negative buoyancy, and neutral buoyancy
• Experiments determining buoyancy – water vs saltwater vs sugar water
• Archimedes’ Principle
• Air pressure experiments
• Lighter-than-air flying devices – airships and hot air balloons (buoyancy of gases)
• Compressing gases – experiment and reading/questions
• Mishandling of compressed gases
• Hydraulic systems vs pneumatic systems
• Pascal’s Law – buoyancy
• Performing calculations using Pascal’s Law
• Researching pneumatic systems
• Factors affecting the flow of fluids – temperature, pressure, density, viscosity
• Regulating fluids in the circulatory system and in engines
• Valves in mechanical systems
• Comparing a fish’s bladder vs ballast water
• Impacts of fluid technologies – renewable energy (wind turbines, hydro)
• Oil spills - The Deepwater Horizon oil spill
• Indigenous communities and oil spills – Ocean Man oil spill
• Research assignment – investigating oil spills in Indigenous communities
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

New Ontario 2022 Science Curriculum - Grade 8 – Water Systems. This product was created to cover the NEW 2022 Ontario Science Grade 8 curriculum – Earth and Space Systems: Water Systems.

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Three states of water in our environment (solid – ice, liquid – water, gas – vapour/humidity)
• Studying glaciers – the Cryosphere
• Water distribution on Earth
• The water cycle – evaporation, condensation, precipitation, infiltration, transpiration
• Numerous diagrams related to the water cycle
• Watersheds – Research assignment and profile of St. Lawrence Watershed
• Water table and Aquifers
• Groundwater diagrams
• Drinking water – Different types of wells
• Human activities affecting the water table
• Climate change – Melting glaciers
• Human activities creating greenhouse gases
• Effects of melting glaciers on coastal communities
• Assignment – Creating an Infographic about Melting Glaciers
• Coastal Storms – Hurricanes, Typhoons, Cyclones as well as storm surges and flooding
• Microclimates – Victoria, BC
• Comparing atmospheric conditions in coastal regions versus regions inland
• Water quality – pH levels, turbidity, bacteria, dissolved oxygen
• Experiment – determining pH levels in local bodies of water
• Human activities affecting water quality – agriculture, fossil fuels, sewage, pharmaceuticals
• Water treatment plants – research assignment and reading/questions
• Tertiary water treatment systems
• Rural water treatment systems – Septic tanks
• Experiment – creating a water filter
• How cities manage water – water meters and incentives to conserve water usage
• Personal water consumption survey
• How the Indigenous use water
• Drinking water advisories in First Nation communities
• Rainwater harvesting and greywater systems - technologies
• Desalination systems – converting saltwater to freshwater technologies
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

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FULL YEAR BUNDLE! 428 worksheets and your entire social studies year planned!

This bundle covers all expectations in the Ontario Social Studies Grade 8 History & Geography Curriculums.

Students will practice literacy skills when demonstrating their understanding of the subject material. These sheets were made for cross-curricular connections between language and social studies. Students will make connections, infer, support their answers with evidence from the text, and summarize. Each worksheet contains a reading followed by questions for them to demonstrate their learning. Students will enjoy the matching, true or false, and multiple choice questions.

History Resource-

Unit 1 - Creating Canada, 1850-1890

• Key Terms
• The People of BNA
• Life in BNA
• Political Deadlock – Reading
• Political Deadlock - Questions
• Representation by Population – Reading
• Representation by Population – Questions
• Fenian Raids
• Thomas D’Arcy McGee Assassinated - Reading
• Thomas D’Arcy McGee Assassinated - Questions
• Manifest Destiny
• Defense – Fenian Raids and Manifest Destiny
• Factor of Confederation – Railroad and Trade
• Confederation – Uniting the Colonies
• Double Shuffle
• The Great Coalition
• Confederation – Key Terms Matching Activity
• Profile – John A. Macdonald
• Profile – George Brown
• Road to Confederation – Charlottetown, Quebec, London Conferences
• British North America Act – Changing Map
• British North America Act – Changing Map – Canada Expansion
• Westward Expansion
• Life in the West
• North-West Mounted Police
• Indian Act – Reserves
• The Numbered Treaties
• Conflict – First Nations
• First Nations – Indian Act
• Residential Schools
• Reserves and Residential Schools
• The Metis – Culture
• The Metis Culture - Questions
• Red River Rebellion – Metis
• Gold Rush Assignment
• Creating Canada – Wordsearch and Word Scramble
• Unit Test – Creating Canada – Multiple Choice
• Unit Test – Creating Canada – Matching and Short Answer
• Unit Test – Creating Canada – Short and Long Answer

Unit 2: Canada, 1890-1914: A Changing Society

• Key Terms
• Immigration and Emigration
• Immigration – Push/Pull Factors
• Chinese Head Tax
• Chinese Railroad Workers
• Chinese Head Tax – Summary
• Immigration Act, 1910 – Reading
• Immigration Act, 1910 - Questions
• Discrimination: Komagata Maru – Reading
• Discrimination: Komagata Maru – Questions
• The Industrial Revolution – Urbanization - Reading
• The Industrial Revolution – Urbanization – Questions
• Urbanization – A Changing Society – Reading
• Urbanization – A Changing Society – Questions
• Labour History – Workers Rights – Reading
• Labour History – Workers Rights – Questions
• Discrimination: Woman’s Suffrage
• Slavery – Underground Railroad
• Harriet Tubman – Underground Railroad
• Canada – Underground Railroad Stations
• Underground Railroad Codes
• Boer War – Reading
• Boer War – Questions
• Home Children
• The Manitoba Schools Question – Reading
• The Manitoba Schools Question – Questions
• Alberta and Saskatchewan Join Confederation - Reading
• Alberta and Saskatchewan Join Confederation – Questions
• Truancy Act of 1891
• Migration – Klondike Gold Rush
• Klondike Gold Rush – Impact on First Nations
• Assignment – Significant Individuals
• Assignment – Significant Groups
• A Changing Society – Activities
• Unit Test – A Changing Society – Multiple Choice/Definitions
• Unit Test – Short and Long Answers

Geography Resource-

Strand A: Global Settlement Patterns

• Settlement patterns – linear, scattered, and clustered
• Analyzing settlement patterns using pictures
• Research assignment – settlement patterns
• Population density – in Canada and globally around the world
• Calculating population densities
• Reading and creating choropleth maps representing population density
• Population distributions in Canada and globally
• Effects of climate on settlement patterns
• Climate zones – characteristics of zones
• Landforms/Physical features – how they affect settlement patterns
• Resource towns – gold rush, mining towns, forestry communities
• Ghost towns – Dawson City – gold rush
• Land claim disputes between indigenous groups and the government (Crown)
• Coastal GasLink Pipeline – Dispute between the Wet’suwet’en people and the Crown
• Far North Act – Dispute between Indigenous groups and the Crown
• Land use terms – residential, commercial, industrial, transportation, conservation, agriculture
• Land use issues – desertification, deforestation, land degradation
• Urban vs rural living – global trend of moving to urban areas
• Urban sprawl and how it affects the environment
• Pollution caused by settlements – air, land, noise, light, and water pollution
• Waste management – incinerating waste and landfills
• The 7 r’s – reduce, reuse, recycle, refuse, repair, regift, rot
• Land reclamation projects in Kobe, Japan
• Land reclamation projects in Canada – Alberta coal mine and Syncrude Reclamation
• Sustainable development solutions – green cities
• Rainwater harvesting – profile in Brazil
• Greywater systems – Reusing water
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

Strand B – Global Inequalities

• Quality of life readings
• Researching quality of life indicators
• Infant mortality rates
• Introduction to scatter plots
• Reading scatter plots using different quality of life indicators (ex. infant mortality rate vs poverty rate)
• Creating scatter plots – GDP vs Unemployment and Literacy Rate vs Life Expectancy
• Human Development Index (HDI) rankings
• Comparing Norway (#1) vs Niger (ranked last) in quality of life indicators
• Comparing population pyramids – developed vs developing countries
• Creating population pyramids
• Developed vs developing countries
• Map activity – developed vs developing countries
• Research activity – comparing countries in terms of quality of life indicators
• Study of demography
• NGOs helping inequality issues around the world
• Child rights around the world – UNICEF and Global March Organization
• The Red Cross Organization
• Water for People Organization
• Research – Doctors Without Borders
• Evaluating the Media – How organizations use the media to spread their message
• Economic sectors – primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary
• Researching economic sectors in developed and developing countries
• Economic systems – traditional, command, market, mixed-market
• Researching economic systems in different countries and their development (HDI)
• Economic system – North Korea profile (command economy)
• Capitalism – Unequal distribution of wealth
• Wealth inequality – poverty
• Rural poverty vs urban wealth
• Trade balance – trade deficits and trade surplus of countries and comparing to their GDP per capita
• China - economy profile – from command economy towards a mixed market economy
• Corruption index rankings – levels of corruption in different governments/economies
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

This is a comprehensive unit that will save you hours of planning! It has been tested and found effective in helping students achieve the learning goals in the new science curriculum.

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