Star Wars Day, May 4th, is a great time to turn the magical allure of the Star Wars movie franchise into fun and fascinating lessons in the classroom. Using these free Star Wars ideas, lessons, actitvies, and tools, teachers of any galaxy will easily engross Padawans of any age in instruction on any topic. Enjoy!
May the 4th Be With You: Best Free Star Wars Teaching Ideas
TPT Free Star Wars Lessons and Activities
Star Wars-themed word search, coloring pages, arts and crafts, arithmetic, STEM, and more. Created and rated by your fellow teachers, these are searchable by grade, topic, resource type, standards, and format.
Star Wars Activities for Physical Education
Ever thought about using Star Wars to get kids moving? This collection of Star Wars-related activities are a great way for kids to enjoy healthful exercise such as dance, running, calisthenics, throwing, and more.
Star Wars - Would You Rather?
A high-energy, feel-good exercise program that asks kids to choose between two Star Wars choices, then perform the indicated activity.
The Cave Challenge: Star Wars Mindful Matters
Ashley Eckstein, who voices Ahsoka Tano on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, leads youngsters in a brief guided mindfulness lesson. Just as Luke Skywalker faced his fears in the dark cave, so must everyone explore their own dark spaces, illuminating them with calm acceptance rather than anger.
4 Band Activities for May 4th (May the Fourth Be With You)
Perfect for music or other classes, these four simple ideas will help kids learn music, practice their Star Wars quotes, and generally have a great time.
May the Force = mass x acceleration
What do Star Wars, NASA's Dawn spacecraft, and Newton's Laws of Motion have in common? From the renowned Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, this Star Wars-inspired, standards-aligned lesson about ion-propulsion includes background, student activities, example spreadsheets, and more. Want to go deeper into the physics? Check out the fine collection of force and acceleration lessons here.
Star Wars Lessons for the Music Classroom
John Williams’ Star Wars score is one of the best known movie themes of all time. But what about other avenues to combine Star Wars and music in a single, thought-provoking lesson? Teacher Jessie Powell, the force behind the popular YouTube channel Music and Motivate, provides a detailed narration of her favorite Star Wars music lessons, as well as a link to her blog, where the interactive lesson can be accessed for free.
Create a Star Wars Adventure in Scratch
Get your students excited about coding with this step-by-step video guide to creating a digital Star Wars adventure in Scratch, the free online coding platform.
NASA STEM Education Resources
Transform your students’ Star Wars enthusiasm into genuine learning with this extensive collection of STEM teaching resources for K-12 and beyond. Included are lesson plans, educator guides, interactive multimedia learning modules, contests, challenges, and much more. Searchable by grade level, subject, and type of activity.
Not So Far, Far Away
A lesson about latitude and longitude based on Star Wars fictional planetary locations and their Earthly analogues. Students learn how filmmakers used various extreme Earth landscapes as the basis for other-worldly Star Wars scenes, then map latitude and longitude of the real-world locations. Includes follow-up questions.
A wealth of Star Wars STEM activities can be found on Star Wars STEM Activities for May the 4th Be With You Science, from creating colorful lightsaber greeting cards to building robots from junk. Many of these super resources are aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards.
Star Wars in the Classroom Take a deep dive into multiple subject areas using Star Wars as the learning lens. Social studies, robotics, ELL, STEM topics, and even global citizenship will engage kids like never before when their favorite Star Wars characters, moments, and lines form the basis for each lesson.
Teaching With Star Wars: The true lessons to be learned from Star Wars aren’t about advanced technology. Instead, they’re about navigating life, whether in a galaxy far, far away or right here on Earth. Star Wars expert and educator Dan Zehr’s terrific series of articles examines ideas such as commitment, learning from failure, and leadership in the context of Star Wars and the classroom.
This Star-Wars themed coding a galaxy activity from the Code.org folks includes everything students and teachers need to start block-based and JavaScript coding.
Teaching ‘Star Wars’ With The New York Times: The Times takes Star Wars lessons to a level above Cloud City with its Shakespeare, history, physics, science, math, and yes, economics, Star Wars-themed lessons. An exceptionally strong resource, especially for middle schoolers and above.
Try this Yoda speak translator just for fun. Even better, use it as the foundation for an English grammar lesson. For computer science classes and advanced students, the Yoda translator API allows users to integrate the Yoda speak translator right into their website or application.
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