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Engage your students in project based learning with these lesson ideas. Inspiration for your classroom’s next project.

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Video is an engaging, memorable, and dynamic medium that has surged in popularity among young people in the last five years. With modern tools and smartphone cameras, video has become much more accessible and student-friendly, even for young students. In this post, I'll describe some creative video projects that you can assign 3rd-7th graders to supplement classroom learning across subjects.

Literacy and language arts
Video memes

Assignments: Have students make a meme out of a new word by finding a photo or video clip to demonstrate its meaning. For example, what does "malicious" or "generous" look like? What does it mean to "stumble"? Older students can find a piece of visual media to represent a concept, quote, or character from a novel they're reading in class.

Tools: Add captions directly and trim out the relevant section of the video using this meme maker.

Benefit: It's easier to recall the meaning of a new word when students have an illustrative example to recall, especially if it's funny and/or relevant to popular media.

Literacy through transcription

Assignment: Transcribe the chorus of a favorite song, poem, or TV show scene and embed subtitles directly into the video. Review other students' subtitled clips for mistakes.

Tools: This Subtitle Maker helps you listen, type out, and time the dialog to add subtitles to the video.

Benefit: For English Language Learners, transcribing a video clip is a great exercise in close listening.

Record a poem or a passage

Lady Macbeth scene

Assignment: Record a passage or skit from a novel or screenplay you're reading in class.

Tools: This video trimmer lets you trim out the relevant part of your footage. Students can also add an audio recording to a still image instead of a recorded video.

Benefit: Students learn from dramatic reenactments and recitations, but for people with stage fright an on-the-spot video might be much more intimidating than filming a video.

Introduce a family member

Assignment: Film a video interview with a family member (a grandmother or parent) to tell the story of their lives

Tools: You can use this Slideshow maker to combine video clips and images and add audio to the montage. You can add subtitles to translate the video if their family member speaks a different language.

Benefit: Often times it is easier to tell a story about someone else than it is to tell a story about yourself.

How to video

Assignment: Make an informative how-to video for your classmates. Show how to make something (a meal? A craft?) step by step. Your output can be a montage of photos or video clips.

Tools: Use this montage maker to merge video clips and photos together into a continuous video. You can add titles to your video to label the steps of the process.

Foreign Language
Translation and subtitles:

Assignment: Subtitle a video clip into a foreign language by transcribing the dialogue. Then, review other students subtitles to identify mistakes. This subtitled video library can help as a great study tool for future students.

Tools: After finding a video clip on YouTube, use this Subtitle Maker to add and time out the captions.

Flashcards

Assignment: Find a video clip or film a video that illustrates the meaning of a new vocabulary word. Then, embed the word into the video clip.

Tools: You can use this Meme Maker to caption and trim your video

Foreign songs

Assignment: Find a section of a song in your foreign language that you enjoy or that has interesting lyrics. Then, transcribe the video and add the lyrics as subtitles. In class, students will present their video clip and explain the meaning of the lyrics. You could also have students find a clip that supports a lesson they're learning in class.

Tools: Use this Video Trimmer to clip out the section of a video that you like and this Subtitler to add the lyrics to the video. Upload the mp4 to a shared class folder.

Pronunciation:

Assignment: Practice how a word is pronounced by making a video of yourself saying it.

Tools: You can loop and slow down your voice and sample pronunciation videos to study how the word is said. Optionally, you can add labels to your pronunciation videos to make visual flashcards.

Science and math
Stop motion

Assignment: Make a video that illustrates a reaction or science concept using stop motion. Set up a camera and take photos of the different scenes as you animate a science idea.

Tools: This free slideshow maker makes it easy to combine images and GIFs together.

Example: Cell Division, Cells Merging

Memes

Assignment: Make a funny meme to represent a concept, chemical relationships, or biological principles.

Tools: This online meme maker works for videos, GIFs and images. You can also convert videos into GIFs to share through email or Google Docs.

Equations and problem solving: Step by step

Assignment: Take a photo of your work at each step in the process to illustrate how you approached the final answer. Then, append all of the photos into a slideshow to help other students understand the solution.

Tools: This slideshow maker can help append all of the photos together into a single video. You can also rotate the photos, if you need to.

History
Video memes

Assignment: Make memes to represent a historical movement or event. Find an image, video, or GIF that illustrates what happened or how people were feeling at the time. Your memes can be silly/funny or serious and realistic

Tools: This meme maker supports videos, GIFs and images

Reenactment:

Assignment: Make a video of yourself re-enacting a historical moment, reciting a speech, or impersonating historical figures. Your classmates will try to guess who you are or what moment you've chosen.

Tools: To make the video feel historical or vintage, you can use Sepia and Grayscale filters.

Video collage:

Assignment: Compare two pieces of art, moments in history, or time periods by putting videos, images, or gifs side by side.

Tools: You can place videos, images or GIFs side by side with this collage maker. You can share as a video or convert back to a GIF

Example: Comparison of two government buildings in different European cities

Recent events

Assignment: Pick out a short, 30-second segment from the evening news to talk about in class

Tools: Use this trimmer to slice out a short mp4 and submit it to a shared class folder.

Photo slideshow

Assignment: Make a slideshow of historical photos and video clips to illustrate a certain time period.

Tools: Use this slideshow maker to merge video clips and photos together into a continuous video.

Example: A photo slideshow from WWII

Conclusion

Video is a popular and relevant medium for young people since it engages both audio and visual pathways. Adding video projects to your classroom can reinforce lessons, inspire creativity, and encourage peer to peer collaboration.

Thanks for reading! Hopefully, these ideas for project-based learning help spark new creative video assignments for 3-7th grade students.

This post was written by the developers of Kapwing, a video editor for classrooms. Kapwing is a free online video editor that works on any device and simplifies video editing tasks, and we're running a K12 pilot right now for teachers and schools. Regardless, the ideas described below can be implemented with any video editing software. We hope you'll consider Kapwing, a free online video editing suite, to implement in your school, classroom, or home.

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Project-based learning with video - Kapwing

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Video is an engaging, memorable, and dynamic medium that has surged in popularity among young people in the last five years. With modern tools and smartphone cameras, video has become much more accessible and student-friendly, even for young students. In this post, I'll describe some creative video projects that you can assign 3rd-7th graders to supplement classroom learning across subjects.

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The best video editing software to use in the classroom for making videos.

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Chromebooks provide convenient access to the Internet, but they don't have a hard drive that allows for software downloads. As a result, many video editing programs including Adobe, iMovie, and Camtasia don't work on a Chromebook since they require storage space for installation. In this post, I'll share the best software options for editing videos on a Chromebook.

Kapwing

Kapwing video editing suite unbundles tasks like adding subtitles and converting video, making it simpler and easier to learn. Users can import from Giphy, YouTube and Google Drive, so everything is conveniently in the cloud and users don't need to download the video they want to edit. Like Adobe Spark, all of Kapwing's features are free forever with an unobtrusive watermark. Users don't need to sign in. One great feature allows video content creators to make video montages. Kapwing is also great for school projects; interested teachers can sign up for Kapwing's EDU pilot program to get a free Kapwing Pro account.

Ideal for: Creative professionals, schools, and casual creators.

Adobe Spark

Adobe Spark is Adobe's web-based platform that allows anyone to create content like short video clips and web pages. In its free plan, Adobe Spark has highly structured templates, which are easy to make but don't allow for much customization. This video making platform makes it easy to create visual stories thanks to its pre-designed layouts and its ability to import images from cloud storage services like Adobe Creative Cloud and Google Photo. However, it requires a monthly paid subscription to access its full features, including live technical support, brand personalization with templates, and watermark removal.

Ideal for: Content marketers looking for structured video templates to bootstrap video creation.

Clipchamp

Clipchamp is a unified video editor that lets people edit from their web browser regardless of their video file's size. Content creators can also take advantage of its prominent features, such as filters, a splitter, and a combine feature to create longer videos. Content creators must sign in with Facebook, Google or their email. Clipchamp also offers a limited free trial where users can create and edit videos free of watermarks and have trial access to its stock library. However, content creators who want to produce more high-definition content will have to subscribe to Clipchamp's monthly premium plan.

Conclusion

Creating great media doesn't require an expensive laptop or heavyweight, pricey software. Today's modern and reliable online editing platforms, enable creators to edit on their Chromebooks.

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The Best ChromeBook Video Editors - Kapwing

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Chromebooks provide convenient access to the Internet, but they don't have a hard drive that allows for software downloads. As a result, many video editing programs including Adobe, iMovie, and Camtasia don't work on a Chromebook since they require storage space for installation.

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Easily add subtitles to your video with this free online Subtitler. Type your text or upload an SRT file, then time out your subtitles to appear at the right time. The captions are added directly to the video so that you can share it on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, or anywhere else.

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To get started, upload pictures, GIFs, and videos or paste a link to import media. Once you upload your content, you can use Kapwing's easy subtitle tool to time out the text to the correct position in your video. By listening to your accurately play and adding text at the right moments, you will be able to accurately position the captions in your video.

Kapwing also has an AI-powered auto-generate feature for subtitles. Create subtitles automatically, then edit the auto-generated subtitles so that they are perfectly matched to the audio in your video. The machine powered transcription is a great way to subtitle a video in half the time.

Kapwing allows you to adjust the font, size, color, and position of the subtitles as well. You can make the subtitles appear higher or lower on your video, or even resize your video so that the subtitles fit exactly where you need. There are a few different styles for subtitles that Kapwing supports: you can add a full background to make your subtitles more readable, or just a text shadow, or no background at all. When everything looks perfect, just click "Create" and your video will quickly process.

Do you already have your subtitles handy in the form of a SRT file? Kapwing also supports adding SRT to video! Just upload your SRT file and Kapwing will do the rest of the work to burn the subtitles directly into your video.

Closed captioning is becoming more and more popular even for viewers who do not face challenges with hearing. Captions are important for today's viewers watching video on phones in crowded or outdoor places, where hearing the audio may not be convenient. The Kapwing subtitle editor allows you to add and edit captions that will appear on your video, wherever it gets posted. The subtitler video tool was designed to make content more accessible, engaging, and compelling no matter what kind of video you're making.

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Add Subtitles & Captions Online For Free - Kapwing

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To get started, upload pictures, GIFs, and videos or paste a link to import media. Once you upload your content, you can use Kapwing's easy subtitle tool to time out the text to the correct position in your video.

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Embed your text directly into a picture or video using this free add text to video tool. Great for watermarks, memes, labels, and a call to action.

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Watermark video and add captions with the online add text to video tool from Kapwing. Completely free and online - no downloads required!

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A fast and free tool for generating memes online. Upload your picture or video, add a caption, and download the meme to share!