8Th Grade Research Topics

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 Great Wall of China Green Berets Halloween (History) Hieroglyphics Hiroshima & Nagasaki History of cosmetics History of the Broadway musical Holography/holograms Hope Diamond Hurricane Katrina Hurricanes Hyatt Regency Hotel collapse (Kansas City, MO) Indian reservations Integration of Baseball Interior design International adoptions Internet influence on the world Internet safety Invention of artificial heart Invention of atomic bomb Invention of Barbie doll Invention of Braille Invention of cotton gin Invention of Kevlar Invention of laser Invention of lie detector Invention of Morse Code Invention of MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) Invention of parachutes Invention of Pasteurization Invention of Penicillin Invention of polio vaccine Invention of sign language Invention of smallpox vaccine Invention of telephone Invention of the assembly line Invention of traffic signal Invention of X-rays Inventions and art of Leonardo Da Vinci Japanese gardens Japanese internment camps Juvenile justice system in the U.S. Kamikaze pilots Kennedy-Nixon debates Knights of the Middle Ages Land mine removal Land Rush in Oklahoma Liberation of concentration camps Liberation of France in World War II Life in Shakespearean Times Little Big Horn Little Rock Nine (integration of schools, 1957) Magna Carta Major rivers of the world Manners/customs around the world March on Washington Mardi Gras Mayan Empire Medieval castles Medieval culture Medieval towns Medieval weaponry Mexico’s independence day Military uniforms throughout history Modern farming & agriculture Montgomery Bus Boycott Monticello Mount St. Helen’s eruption Mt. Vernon Mudslides Multiple personality disorder Mummies in Egypt Musical forms (i.e. jazz, rap, etc.) Native American traditions Negro Leagues Baseball Neuschwanstein Castle New Deal (Roosevelt) New Madrid fault Newsreels during World War II Newton’s Laws of Motion Nicodemus, Kansas Occupations (Select one) Palace of Versailles Panama Canal Pantheon Parthenon Peace Corps Pearl Harbor Photography Planets (choose one) Plate tectonics Pod-casting Political cartoons Pompeii Protest songs of the 1960s Public transportation systems around the world Pyramids Rain forest Renaissance fashion Renewable energy sources Roman Dress Roman Games, Gladiators Rosetta Stone Route 66 Safety features of modern automobiles Salem Witch Trials Samurai warriors San Andreas fault San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 Satellite Radio (XM, Sirius) Satellites School security Seven Natural Wonders of the World: (Select one.) Great Barrier Reef, Australia Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe Northern Lights, Alaska The Harbor at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Grand Canyon, U.S. Paricutin, Mexico Mount Everest, Nepal Seven New Wonders of the World: (Select one.) Statue of Christ Redeemer, Brazil Machu Picchu, Peru Chichen Itza Pyramid, Mexico Great Wall of China Petra, Jordan Colosseum, Italy Taj Mahal, India Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: (Select one.) Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt Colossus of Rhodes, Greece Lighthouse of Alexandra, Egypt Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Greece Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Iraq Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, Turkey Temple of Artemis, Turkey Shakespeare’s Globe Theater Shakespeare’s plays Sibling birth order Silent films Sistine Chapel Slave trade in the U.S. Space flight Special effects in film Sputnick & the space race Staph infections (drug resistant) Statue of Liberty Stock Market Crash, 1929 Stonehenge Student rights Summer Olympics Surgical techniques Tae Kwan Do Television in the 1960s Titanic sinking Tornadoes Tourette’s syndrome Tower of London Trail of Tears Trojan Horse Tsunami in Southeast Asia, 2004 Tsunamis Tuskegee airmen Twins U.S. National Park (Select one.) U.S. Railroads U.S.S. Nautilus Union Station Massacre Vatican City Vegans Venice Vietnam P.O.W. camps Wagon trains Warsaw Ghetto Water resources Westward expansion in the U.S. White Sox Baseball Scandal, 1919 Williamsburg Winter Olympics Women at war Women on the Homefront during WWII Women’s baseball during World War II Women’s Suffrage Movement Wounded Knee WPA (Works Progress Administration) Yoga You-Tube’s influence on polities