Tech or Treat: Spook-tacular Halloween Resources for the Classroom
Looking for some fun activities to celebrate Halloween in your classroom? Then look no further! Listed below is an updated version of some really spook-tacular educational Halloween resources that are sure to creep out your students—in a good way, of course!
Whether it’s writing prompts, science experiments, Halloween candy math, Edgar Allan Poe videos or haunted vocabulary, there’s something ghostly awaiting you right here, right now…
» Build a Jack-O-Lantern with Google Slides
Generated by Eric Curts, this fun, and educational Google Slides activity is a great way for students to be creative and to work on writing skills by describing the Jack-O-Lantern they build with shapes and/or drawings of their own.
For the Breakout EDU junkies… Check out this spooky, musical, holiday-themed digital breakout game created by Aubrey Yeh. (Designed for middle school students but could work for upper elementary or high school as well.)
Check out three challenging yet fun hands-on games with a Halloween twist located on the Breakout EDU site.
» 6 Halloween Paper Circuit Projects
In this project tutorial, learn how to make six different Halloween paper circuit creations. Using parallel and simple circuits, students can bring these templates to life with copper tape, LEDs and batteries.
» 100 Free Halloween STEM Activities
A collection of 100 Halloween STEM activities that are completely free via Nick’s Picks for Educational Technology.
» Free Halloween Music, Images, Videos, and Clipart for School Projects
Another collection of Halloween goodies from Nick’s Picks for Educational Technology.
Get your classroom in the Halloween spirit with these math and science activities, writing ideas and crafts. This site, powered by Scholastic, includes Halloween-themed book lists to find a perfect read-aloud title or scary stories to share with your students for independent reading.
» Halloween Classroom Activities for Any Grade
To prepare for Halloween in your classroom, check out these Halloween classroom activities from Teach HUB for new ways to sneak in some spooky lessons and ghoulish learning!
Math… Pick a Pumkin… Bats in the Classroom… And Historical Figure Day, an alternative to the traditional Halloween hoopla. If you’re ready to celebrate Halloween in “spooktacular” fashion, you’re sure to find a fun idea or two right here on the Education World site.
» 30 Halloween Activities for the Classroom
A collection of nearly three dozen hands-on activities (with accompanying pictures) from the Proud to Be Primary blog.
A Pinterest board containing 90+ Halloween sites to celebrate Halloween by Edutopia.
» The Best Sites for Learning About Halloween
A collection of all things Halloween by Larry Ferlazzo—A visual history, slideshows, vocabulary and spelling games, cloze activities, Halloween Around the World and Mia Cadaver’s Tombstone Timeout, one of the most favorite games found on the BBC site and more!
A variety of educational sites for Halloween by 19 Pencils.
» Tech-Themed Halloween Costume Ideas
Check out and/or share some pretty neat tech-inspired Halloween costume ideas on the Tech with Us Community Facebook thread found here. A shout out to Julie Goode Smith for generating this fun post!
Classroom Connection:
Use these resources to teach and learn about Halloween in fun and hands-on ways.
I really liked the variety of links posted here. There were activities that fit well with each grade (K-12), and there were activities that related to all subject areas. Halloween is my favorite holiday and I cannot wait to use some of these activities on Halloween with my own class. I also really liked that many of these activities can be used any time of the year, especially the STEM Halloween activities. If you are going to integrate a holiday into your classroom it is important that the activities remain educational instead of just a distraction, and these links are great for that!