Mr. Bertoch teaches science using Mastery Badges instead of grades. This is a much more meaningful way of instruction, that ensures students learn while avoiding the nonsensical notion that it is possible to fail to learn.
Complete Eighth Grade Science Curriculum
This list includes the 16 packets pre-selected for eighth-grade students. Each packet includes everything you need and should take you about two weeks to complete.
| Grade Level | Mastery Badge | Content Taught | |
| 8th | 1 | Animal Cells | Download |
| 8th | 2 | Plant Cells | Download |
| 8th | 3 | Tissues & The Structures of Living Things | Download |
| 8th | 4 | Organs & Organ Systems | Download |
| 8th | 5 | Evolution | Download |
| 8th | 6 | Natural Selection | Download |
| 8th | 7 | Artificial Selection | Download |
| 8th | 8 | Classification of Living Things | Download |
| 8th | 9 | Types of Animals | Download |
| 8th | 10 | Types of Plants | Download |
| 8th | 11 | Fungi And Single Celled Lifeforms | Download |
| 8th | 12 | Mitosis | Download |
| 8th | 13 | DNA Transcription / RNA | Download |
| 8th | 14 | Translation & Proteins | Download |
| 8th | 15 | Osmosis, diffusion, Active/Passive Transport | Download |
| 8th | 16 | Middle School Science Capstone Project | Download |