Use These Halloween Video Lessons to Celebrate With Your Students
Scary science, haunted history, and the evolution of Halloween traditions are just a few of the topics in our collection of Edpuzzle Original video lessons on Halloween!
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Think Halloween is just a bunch of hocus pocus?
Turn a scary school day into a teaching opportunity with this collection of video lessons from Edpuzzle Originals, with a wide variety of options for various grade levels and subjects!
A Halloween Video Lesson
In this Edpuzzle Original video lesson, students will examine how modern Halloween traditions connect with traditions throughout the past and around the world.
Science-Themed Halloween Video Lessons to Celebrate Halloween
In this lesson for 3rd graders all about skeletons, students will analyze fossils to help them guess what a fossil animal might have looked like when it was alive.
What says Halloween better than bats? In this lesson, 3rd-grade students will consider the advantages and disadvantages of different ways to solve a city’s problem of having a million bats living under a bridge.
Geared towards 4th graders, in this lesson, students will learn how sense receptors send information to the brain by investigating how vampire bats detect blood in other animals.
Do your 4th graders want to learn how to become punkin’ chunkin’ champions? Find out how in this video lesson on the conversion of stored energy to motion energy by way of a pumpkin catapult!
This video lesson designed for 5th graders answers the question, “Where is the best place in the garden to grow a giant pumpkin?” Students will collect information about directions of shadows throughout the day in order to identify the best location for a sunlit garden for a giant pumpkin.
Get your 5th graders’ attention with this video lesson on flesh-eating beetles! They’ll observe the role decomposers play with producers and consumers in the wild.
Social Studies-Themed Halloween Video Lessons
In this lesson for middle and high school students, your class will learn about possible causes of the Salem Witch Trials by weighing evidence in a variety of primary and secondary sources.
In this lesson, students will consider the worldwide impact of the Black Death by exploring its spread from Central Asia to China, the Middle East, and Europe.
English Language Arts-Themed Halloween Video Lessons
It wouldn't be Halloween without Edgar Allan Poe! In this video lesson, students will analyze the narrator of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” through the lenses of diction and tone.
In this video lesson, students will analyze the use of personification and symbolism in Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I could not stop for Death.”
Have your students explore personification, tone, and irony in this lesson for middle and high schoolers as they see Death treated as a character.
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