Eighth grade social studies

IXL offers more than 100 eighth grade social studies skills to explore and learn! Not sure where to start? Go to your personalized Recommendations wall to find a skill that looks interesting, or select a skill plan that aligns to your textbook, state standards, or standardized test.

IXL offers more than 100 eighth grade social studies skills to explore and learn! Not sure where to start? Go to your personalized Recommendations wall to find a skill that looks interesting, or select a skill plan that aligns to your textbook, state standards, or standardized test.

A. Government

  1. 1
    Purposes of government
  2. 2
    The Legislative Branch
  3. 3
    The Executive Branch
  4. 4
    The Judicial Branch
  5. 5
    Checks and balances
  6. 6
    State and local government

B. The Constitution

  1. 1
    The Constitution: structure and principles
  2. 2
    The Constitution: amendments
  3. 3
    The Constitution: interpretation
  4. 4
    The Bill of Rights

C. The legal system

  1. 1
    Laws and courts

D. Citizenship

  1. 1
    Citizenship and the naturalization process
  2. 2
    Rights and responsibilities of active citizenship
  3. 3
    The U.S. naturalization test

E. Basic economic principles

  1. 1
    What is economics?
  2. 2
    Costs and benefits
  3. 3
    Opportunity cost
  4. 4
    Trade and specialization
  5. 5
    What is a market?

G. Banking and finance

  1. 1
    Banks

H. Pre-contact America

  1. 1
    Pre-contact Native Peoples: introduction

N. The Jacksonian period

  1. 1
    Jacksonian Democracy
  2. 2
    Tariff, nullification, and bank war
  3. 3
    Indian Removal and the Trail of Tears

Q. Reconstruction

  1. 1
    Radical Reconstruction
  2. 2
    The end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow

R. The Gilded Age

  1. 1
    Industrialization in the Gilded Age
  2. 2
    Cities in the Gilded Age

S. World War I

  1. 1
    World War I: the road to war
  2. 2
    World War I: the Great War

T. Social studies skills

  1. 1
    Identify primary and secondary sources
  2. 2
    Identify facts and opinions
  3. 3
    Reading and creating timelines with BCE and CE

U. Read maps

  1. 1
    Identify and use lines of latitude and longitude

V. Physical geography

  1. 1
    Oceans and continents

W. The Americas: society and environment

  1. 1
    Region profile: South America
  2. 2
    Country profile: Brazil

Y. Europe: society and environment

  1. 1
    Region profile: Europe

AA. Africa: society and environment

  1. 1
    Region profile: West and Central Africa

CC. The Middle East: society and environment

  1. 1
    Region profile: the Middle East

DD. Asia: society and environment

  1. 1
    Region profile: East Asia
  2. 2
    Country profile: China
  3. 3
    Country profile: Japan

FF. Oceania: geography

  1. 1
    Identify and select countries of Oceania
  2. 2
    Name countries of Oceania