Middle School Science Video Lessons to Practice Key Terms
Reinforce key science concepts with your middle schoolers with the Key Terms Practice series from Edpuzzle Originals. Interactive and effective, these video lessons will give students the science skills they need!
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Calling all middle school science teachers! Have you heard about the Key Terms Practice series from Edpuzzle Originals?
These video lessons are designed to complement the Middle School Key Terms series which explains every important concept in middle school science. The corresponding Key Terms Practice video lessons then extend and support student learning.
Take a look to see how you can use these middle school science video lessons with your students today!
How to Use the Science Key Terms Practice Video Lessons
Here’s an example in 3 steps of how to use these Edpuzzle Originals video lessons with your middle schoolers:
- A teacher presents a lesson on a key science concept from middle school science, like this one on Weathering:
Students complete this activity in class, with the teacher’s support. Once students finish, the teacher checks their scores to see how well they have initially understood the concept.
- The next day, the teacher assigns the associated Key Terms Practice lesson, Weathering: Practice.
Students need less support to complete this assignment, because student work on the original Key Terms lesson scaffolded the students directly into the Practice lesson!
- Students complete the Key Terms Practice lesson using the knowledge they gained from the original Key Terms lesson. Teachers monitor student progress on both lessons to see how well students understood and retained the original material in order to inform their teaching plans.
After students complete the Weathering: Practice lesson, the teacher analyzes students’ scores, comparing their work on the original and practice lessons. Using this information, the teacher can determine which students are ready to move on to the next lesson on erosion, and which need more review of weathering.
There’s a Key Terms Practice lesson for virtually every key science term. Find more examples of video lessons from the series below!
Life Science Key Term Practice Video Lessons
In this lesson, students will apply basic concepts like the presence of cells in living things, cell size and visibility, and the relationship between an organism’s size and its number of cells.
Levels of Organization: Practice
Here students will use food webs to describe the flow of matter and energy through a desert ecosystem.
Food Webs: Practice
Earth & Space Science Key Term Practice Video Lessons
In this lesson, students will review the three main types of rock and practice using the rock cycle diagram to evaluate how different examples of rocks formed or changed.
The Rock Cycle: Practice
Students will use models and real world footage to evaluate the properties of various air masses and explain how they relate to the weather in this video lesson.
Weather: Practice
Physical Science Key Term Practice Video Lessons
In this lesson, students will review Newton’s Laws of Motion and practice applying them in different situations to describe the relationships between mass, force, and acceleration.
Newton's Laws of Motion: Practice
In this lesson, students will answer questions about key figures in the development of atomic theory and review how their discoveries advanced the atomic model.
Atomic Theory: Practice
General Science Key Term Practice Video Lessons
Students will practice making observations and inferences to explain different scenarios in this video lesson.
Observations and Inferences: Practice
In this lesson, students will observe a model experiment to practice identifying independent and dependent variables.
Variables: Practice
There are currently over 100 video lessons in the Key Terms Practice series to choose from, and the collection is growing every day! Take a look at the full collection here and let us know on Twitter how you plan to incorporate these videos into your lessons plans!