May the Fourth Be With You: Video Lessons to Celebrate Star Wars Day!
From force to galaxies, Edpuzzle’s science video lessons are the perfect way to celebrate Star Wars Day – May the Fourth be with you!
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It’s the pun that spawned a holiday: May the fourth be with you. And what better excuse to celebrate Star Wars Day than with some Star Wars-inspired video lessons from Edpuzzle Originals!
Use these science video lessons to engage your students with topics on the stars, planets, galaxies, and force, of course!
Force: A Video Lesson
In this lesson, students will use free-body diagrams to compare the strength and direction of contact and non-contact forces and observe how forces combine into the net force.
Stars: A Video Lesson
After watching this video lesson, students will be able to describe the origin, location, and composition of stars, describe how they generate energy, and differentiate different types of stars based on properties of size and color.
Planets: A Video Lesson
Sorry, we won’t be travelling to Tatooine in this video lesson! But students will compare features of planets in our solar system and use models to explain the role of gravity in the structure of orbits and planets.
Galaxies: A Video Lesson
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
There was a video lesson that taught students to describe what makes up galaxies, the different types of galaxies, and explain what galaxies are in their own words.
A Video Lesson: Why is space trash so dangerous?
In this video lesson, students will identify the relationship between two factors that impact the kinetic energy of objects (mass and velocity) and learn that high-velocity masses have significant kinetic energy.
A Video Lesson: Watching the Sun Rise on Another Planet
Who could forget that binary sunset that Luke Skywalker pensively observes in A New Hope?
In this video lesson, students will observe changes in sunlight at different points in the solar system in order to explain how distance affects apparent brightness of luminous objects.
A Video Lesson: What It Would Take to Travel to the Closest Stars
Unfortunately, travel through hyperspace only exists in the Star Wars universe.
In this video lesson, students will observe the relative brightness of stars of the same size to determine the distance of different luminous objects from Earth.
A Video Lesson: How Astronauts Are Growing Plants in Space
Students will learn how to support an argument that plants need air, light, and water in order to grow, but not soil, by looking at what astronauts provide to plants on the International Space Station.
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