Eighth Grade Curriculum

PLATO Learning educational software, along with additional online software in Beyond Books and Glencoe Mathematics, provide the basis for our online curriculum. Offline projects developed by CDELA encourage students to synthesize concepts learned online. Lesson plans are provided to parents online to guide them through the curriculum. 

To learn more about the PLATO Learning curriculum and to view a sample lesson of PLATO Projects for the Real World: Grades 4-8, click here.

Language Arts - Writing process; personal, descriptive, narrative, expository, and persuasive writing; grammar, usage, mechanics, vocabulary development; literature; reading comprehension

Mathematics - Place value; operations with whole numbers, decimals, and fractions; prime and composite numbers; factors; exponents, scientific notation; measurement systems; order of operations; solving equations; integers; graphing; angles; geographic solids; symmetry; volume and area; probability; Pythagorean theorem; algebraic properties; word problems

Social Studies - Survey of U.S. History from European exploration through the modern era; construction of U.S. history timeline; research paper about Industrial Revolution; writing historical fiction; current events

Science - Science safety and skills; motion; energy; machines; waves; energy; electricity; atoms; chemical reactions; mitosis; meiosis; genetic traits; simple organisms; disease; green plants; biomes; atmosphere; weathering; changing Earth; astronomy; technology

Electives - Foreign languages: Spanish, Health

Technology - Weekly activities using Internet Resources