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Grade 8 Life Science Worksheets

Free printable and interactive Grade 8 life science worksheets aligned to NGSS. 49 worksheets so far. Every worksheet has an answer key and can be completed online with instant feedback.

MS-LS3-1

Explain how gene mutations can change proteins and have harmful, helpful or neutral effects on an organism.

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A Missing Muscle Protein: Sprinters, Volunteers and Lab Mice
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The Monarch's Pump: Milkweed Toxin and Gene Changes
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Clover Through the Seasons: One Gene, Three Effects
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Living Lab Cases: White Corn, Cool Ears and Nylon-Eating Bacteria
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Farm Records: Gene Changes in Cattle and Wheat
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Dark Mice on the Lava Field
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Fruit Fly Strains: When a Gene Changes
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MS-LS4-1

Read the fossil record for patterns in the existence, diversity, extinction and change of life over Earth's history.

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Compare anatomical similarities and differences among living and fossil organisms to infer how they are related.

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Compare patterns in embryo development across species to find relationships not seen in adult anatomy.

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Explain how genetic variation in traits makes some individuals more likely to survive and reproduce.

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Explain how technologies such as artificial selection and genetic engineering change the traits of organisms.

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Use math and data to explain how natural selection changes the share of a trait in a population over time.

MS-LS3-1

A Missing Muscle Protein: Sprinters, Volunteers and Lab Mice

The Monarch's Pump: Milkweed Toxin and Gene Changes

Clover Through the Seasons: One Gene, Three Effects

Living Lab Cases: White Corn, Cool Ears and Nylon-Eating Bacteria

Farm Records: Gene Changes in Cattle and Wheat

Dark Mice on the Lava Field

Fruit Fly Strains: When a Gene Changes

MS-LS4-1

A Greenhouse Timeline: What Plant Fossils Show

Reef Builders Along the Ledge Loop

Lost Giants and Long Survivors: A Zoo's Fossil Exhibit

Dig Camp Fossils: Teeth, Toes and the Horse Family

From Fins to Limbs in the Fossil Prep Lab

The Thin Clay Line in the Ranch Creek

Reading the Fossil Hall Rock Wall

MS-LS4-2

Tube Feet and Tiny Plates: Who Is the Sea Cucumber Related To?

Tendrils, Spines and a Fossil Pod in the Greenhouse

Knees, Hips and Toes: A Runner Meets Australopithecus

From Legs to Flippers: Whale Bones at the Stranding Center

Bat Walk in the City Park: Whose Wings Are Related?

Wishbones and Feathers in the Fossil Hall

Front Legs in the Teaching Barn

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Shells, Wings and Tails: What Refuge Embryos Reveal

Tide Pool Babies: Sea Stars, Sea Slugs and Crabs

Under the Dock: What Barnacle and Sea Squirt Larvae Reveal

Before the Season: How a Heart Takes Shape

Yolk Sacs and Hidden Teeth: Embryos in a Zoo Program

Limb Buds and Webbed Toes: A Year of Embryos

Pond Eggs Under the Microscope

MS-LS4-4

When the Lice Treatment Stopped Working

Six Cold Days at the Swallow Bridge

Normal Hearts in Dirty Water: Killifish of the Harbor Marsh

Reaching the Seeds: Soapberry Bugs in the Courtyard Garden

Thin Air: A Cyclist's Camp and the Mountain Mice

Too Hot at the Edge: A Zoo's Pupfish Program

Green or Brown? Beetles on the Rail Trail

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Red Koi and Glowing Larvae: A Pond Study Day

Insulin From Microbes, Calm Dogs From Careful Breeding

Bringing Back the Chestnut: Breeding and a Wheat Gene at the Refuge

Tougher Oysters, Faster Salmon: A Hatchery Field Trip

Six Crops, Two Radish Lines and a Glowing Gene

Behind the Team's Training Table: Bred and Engineered Foods

Bigger Peppers, Borrowed Genes: How People Change Traits

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Rabbits on the Wheat Farm: How a Virus Lost Its Grip

Eggs in the Pond Mud: Rotifers and Road Salt

Two Flasks in the Hospital Lab: How Resistant Bacteria Take Over

Fewer Tusks: Elephant Surveys After the Poaching Years

Crabs in the Cove: 25 Years of Snail Shells

Hairy Leaves and Hungry Slugs: Four Generations in the Garden

The Weeds That Came Back: Selection on the Soccer Field