8th Grade Research Topics
2008-2009
Abolitionists
Addiction (causes, treatments)
African masks
African music’s influence on U.S. popular music
Air travel (History)
Alternative Energy Sources
Alzheimer’s disease
Amazon River
Amish life
Amistad Rebellion
Ancient musical instruments
Animal camouflage
Animation (by hand or by computer)
Anime
Antibiotics
Architecture of ancient cultures
Art of a specific country or continent (i.e China, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Africa)
Artistic movements (i.e. abstract art, cubism, impressionism; modern art, Renaissance art, surrealism)
Artificial organs
Attention deficit disorders
Auschwitz concentration camp
Autism and/or Asperger’s
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Midway
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Thermopylae
Bill of Rights
Bio-fuels
Black cowboys
Black Forest
Blue jeans (from work clothes to fashion)
Bollywood
Brain research
Brown vs. the Topeka Board of Education
Buffalo soldiers
Bulimia
Cancer treatments
Cathedrals around the world
Censorship (Advanced English only)
Challenger explosion
Chernobyl nuclear accident
Childhood obesity
Chinese opera
Chinese porcelain
Church bombings, 1950s & 1960s, U.S.
Cinco de Mayo
Civil Rights sit-ins at lunch counters
Commerce/trade in Colonial U.S.
Copyright law & the Internet
Coral reefs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Dachau concentration camp
Day of the Dead (Mexico)
D-Day (World War II)
Death & burial rites
Deep sea exploration
Diamonds
Diseases
Druids
Dust storms
Dyslexia
Early radio broadcasting (1920s, etc.)
Educational systems around the world
Electoral college
Electric cars
Ellis Island
Erie Canal
Fashions of a specific decade (Choose one.)
Feng Shui
Flappers
Foods of a specific culture
Former Soviet Union
Forts of Kansas
Gallipoli
Global positioning systems (GPS)
Global warming
Gold rush in Alaska
Gold Rush in California
Government, forms of (i.e. democracy, communism, etc.)
Graphic art
Great Chicago Fire, 1871...