Halloween (Oct 31)

Here are several clever and fun educational activities for grades 3-6. There are activities that fit into Math, Science and Language Arts.

Celebrate Halloween with these scare-free videos, activities, and lesson plans for grades PreK-5. Discover fun, new ways to incorporate learning into your Halloween activities, like conducting science investigations with slime, using math to share candy, and solving interactive, Halloween-themed puzzles.

Lesson plans about Halloween from Teach-nology

Explore the literature, customs and history of Halloween, using worksheets, lessons, videos and activities from Teacher Vision.

This is a lesson plan (grades 4-5) for language arts and social studies, comparing the Day of the Dead and Halloween. There are several suggested resources for students to use for research.

This page includes a short video about Halloween from PBS Learning plus support materials for (elementary) teachers.

A free printable pumpkin quiz

Scholastic has a collection of lesson plans for you to use this Halloween, on the history of the season, science, math, crafts, language arts and more.

This short article discusses recent ideas for engaging math and science students through zombie-related curriculum.

These lesson plans (Gr. 8-12) use zombies to help students explore neuroscience. There is an introduction plus four lessons that explore: neurons, neurotransmission, neuroanatomy and psychiatric medicine. The last lesson is a writing activity.

A resource to help educators teach middle school aged children the basics of emergency preparedness and response using a fun, fictitious scenario.