Biography silent film ideas for high school
Student silent film ideas...
Who doesn’t like short films?
Biography silent film ideas for high school
They’re often innovative, funny, or surprising, and always to the point. There are hundreds of great short films available online for free, about almost any topic you can imagine. Whereas it’s not always easy to show feature films in the classroom (because of your limited amount of time), a short film can perfectly be watched and discussed in one lesson sequence.
Since most short films have an engaging element, they can be used in several ways in your lessons:
- as a lesson starter;
- as an introduction to a new topic;
- as a discussion starter;
- or just as a way to add some variation to your classes.
In short (pun intended), there’s no reason not to use a short film in your lessons from time to time.
In this blog post, I’ve selected 15+ great short films for students about totally different topics and created ready-to-use lesson examples for each one of them.
Most of the presented short film lesson ideas focus on social-emotional learning (SEL), whic