10 Back-to-School Video Lessons from Edpuzzle Originals
Looking for some fresh new content for the new school year? Take a look at our roundup of teachers' favorite back-to-school videos!
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Looking for some ready-to-go content to get your students back into the swing of things? Check out our back-to-school video lessons from Edpuzzle Originals, with something for students across all grade levels and subjects!
These videos comprise the most popular video lessons at back-to-school time, including subjects like English language arts, math, science (with a great lab safety intro!), social studies, digital citizenship, and study skills.
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1. Biology Lab Safety
Keep your students safe in your biology labs, and explain the why behind safety precautions. In this lesson, students will identify basic biology lab safety procedures and protocols by evaluating a variety of lab-based scenarios.
Video length: 5 mins. 41 secs.
2. Chemistry Lab Safety
Tackle any worries before your students start handling hazardous chemicals! In this lesson, students will identify basic chemistry lab safety procedures and protocols by observing a variety of lab-based scenarios.
Video length: 6 mins. 1 sec.
3. Place Value
Here elementary students will explore the term "place value," understand how it's used in math, and discover real-world applications of the term.
Video length: 3 mins. 15 secs.
4. Integers
Get your elementary and middle school math students up to speed on math vocabulary with this lesson on integers, which explores the term "integer," explains how it's used in math, and shows real-world applications of the term.
Video length: 2 mins. 31 secs.
5. Time Management
Wouldn’t it be great if your students could get a handle on time management from the get-go? In this lesson, students will improve their ability to manage time by practicing skills like scheduling, maintaining to-do lists, breaking tasks into steps, and using time efficiently.
Video length: 5 mins. 39 secs.
6. Setting Goals
Activate your students’ forward thinking with this lesson, where students will explore strategies for effective goal setting, identify common pitfalls, and practice applying the SMART goals framework.
Video length: 6 mins. 14 secs.
7. What is Poetry?
In this video lesson for upper elementary, middle, and high schoolers, students will compare different kinds of poetry and identify the feeling and theme of various examples.
Video length: 6 mins. 20 secs.
8. Theme
Before diving into the required reading, use this lesson to make sure everyone’s on the same page. In this lesson, students will identify and analyze theme in a variety of texts and write a paragraph developing a personal theme about friendship.
Video length: 6 mins. 56 secs.
9. Why Study History?
Here’s a video lesson for all of your students asking, why do we have to learn this? In this video lesson, students will discover the importance of studying history by exploring scenarios in which history is used as a model, a tool for prediction, and a source of inspiration.
__Video length: __6 mins. 20 secs.
10. Why Study Civics?
Why should students care about voting? Answer this question and more in this lesson, where students will discover the role civics education plays in creating communities of informed citizens empowered to participate in our democratic society.
Video length: 5 mins. 55 secs.
So how will you start off the new school year, teachers? Let us know by sharing your lesson plans with the Edpuzzle community on social media!