Tech or Treat: Spook-tacular Halloween Resources for the Classroom III
Back by popular demand—some really spook-tacular digital resources that are sure to creep out your students—in a good way, of course! Yep—it’s the updated version of Tech or Treat so if you’re looking for some fun activities to celebrate Halloween in your classroom, then keep scrolling…
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…
This Five Little Pumpkins drawing activity invites students to create their own illustration of the rhyme while introducing them to coding. The worksheet also asks them to draw various parts of the illustration by following the algorithm’s steps.
» Create Halloween Rebus Stories with Emojis and Google Docs
Generated by Eric Curts, this Halloween rebus activity can be used for students to create and/or read. (BTW: Anyone who grew up reading Highlights magazine in the dentist office waiting room will quickly recognize a rebus. Basically, it is a story in which some of the words are replaced by images.)
» Build a Jack-O-Lantern with Google Slides
Also 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.
» 31 Days of Halloween STEM Activities and Projects
The STEAM Powered Family gathered 31+ science, tech, engineering and math activities that capture a child’s interest and imagination during this spooky season. And so many of them are perfect for our young scientists! Be sure to check out this spectacular STEM adventure projects!
» 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.
