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Halloween
Did you hear that? You didn’t? Maybe it was just one of those things that go bump in the night: creepy crawlers, ghostly figures, glowing eyes or the tap on the shoulder when no one is there. What gets your students excited about the spooky happenings during the month of October? Engage students with fun and exciting lesson plans, activities and more from Thinkfinity to celebrate the scariest time of the year.
Things That Go Bump in the Night
- Discover the haunting story behind La Llorona Doll, otherwise know as the Weeping Woman, with your students in grades 4-12.
- Explore the ghostly side of the genre of epics with Teaching the Epic through Ghost Stories for your 9-12 students.
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LESSON PLANS
Collaborating on a Class Book: Exploring Before-During-After Sequences
ReadWriteThink | Lesson | K-2
Engage your class in group-writing activity about the before-during-after sequence of events related to carving a jack-o-lantern.
Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts: Exploring the Ways Writers Scare Readers
ReadWriteThink | Lesson | 9-12
How do writers and storytellers scare us? This lesson invites students to answer this question by exploring their own scary stories, short stories and books. The lesson culminates in a Fright Fair, where students share scary projects that they have created including posters, multimedia projects and creative writing.
Mexican Culture and History through Its National Holidays
EDSITEment | Lesson | 6-8
Learn about the holidays that represent and commemorate Mexico's religious traditions, culture and politics.
Mystery Cube
ReadWriteThink | Lesson | 6-12
Exciting lesson plans that use the Mystery Cube interactive.
The Science of Mummies
Science NetLinks | Lesson | 9-12
Explore how advancements in technology can lead to advancements in scientific knowledge, specifically when studying mummies.
Something Wicked This Way Comes
EDSITEment | Lesson Collection | K-12
Lurking in these lessons are two murderers, witch hunts, a headless horseman, and more...
Teaching the Epic through Ghost Stories
ReadWriteThink | Lesson | 9-12
Connect students, including English Language Learners, to epic storytellers by sharing their own oral tales of ghosts, goblins and monsters! This lesson even comes with a Ghost Story Checklist!
Thrills! Chills! Using Scary Stories to Motivate Students to Read
ReadWriteThink | Lesson | 6-8
This lesson taps into students' desire to read scary stories and, at the same time, helps them explore story structure and develop critical thinking skills
Too Hot to Handle, Too Cool to Enjoy
Illuminations | Lesson | 9-12
Warm up this fall with a hot cup of cider, but be careful, you don’t want to sip too soon! In Too Hot to Handle, students will predict when to take that first sip and determine which function best represents the rate at which coffee cools: linear, quadratic, square root, absolute value, exponential or logarithmic.
Tales of the Supernatural
EDSITEment| Lesson | 9-12
In this lesson, students explore the origins and development of gothic literature.
Understanding the Salem Witch Trials
EDSITEment | Lesson | 6-8
Explore the characteristics of the Puritan community in Salem and learn about the Salem Witchcraft trials.
What Masks Reveal
EDSITEment | Lesson | 6-8
Explore the cultural significance of masks by investigating the role they play in ceremonies around the world, including the American holiday of Halloween.
