Halloween

In this Halloween activity, students listen to a description of the origins of Halloween. Students answer fifteen questions related to the history. One activity has the story and questions. Another activity just list the questions...

Have a Happy Halloween and build strong oral language skills. Special needs Pupils functioning at a moderate level can practice sequencing, writing lists, and using oral language by explaining how they carve a pumpkin. 

Students complete multi-curricular activities in a Halloween themed lesson. In this Halloween lesson, students examine newspaper ads to find prices of pumpkins and use them to complete a stem and leaf plot. Students find the diameter,...

Read a story about a make-believe animal called a pigmoose who learns how to escape from the zoo, and who takes people's Halloween pumpkins because he thinks they are a yummy snack. See how two children get him to go back to the zoo.

Students examine various Halloween traditions and the legend of the Jack O'Lantern. They listen to the story "Pumpkin Pumpkin," examine a map and locate the origins of pumpkins, weigh and measure a pumpkin and graph the results, and...

Video in Spanish about the printmaking of Dutch artist Rembrandt.

A virtual exhibit presenting a variety of nineteenth- and twentieth-century portraits. As you browse through the pages, click on each portrait to see larger version and related information (date, artist, dimensions, etc.). Images are...

Inspired by George Washington's Socks by Elvira Woodruff, students will write in the historical fiction genre.

Learners discover how celebrations evolve. They explore the history of Halloween. Students devise an inclusive celebration for the end of school term. They create an illustrated pamphlet.

Rene Richard was a native of Switzerland who worked as a trapper and hunter to avoid the hardships of farming life that his family endured. He came to appreciate Alberta's north and went to France to train as an artist. When he returned,...