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10+ Halloween Activities to Engage Learners
This document provides 12 Halloween activity ideas to engage learners. Some of the ideas include having students compare and contrast Halloween celebrations in different cultures, create a haunted stories multimedia project researching local legends, telling spooky stories and reading recommended books, carving pumpkins and describing costumes, telling Halloween jokes, throwing a party or carnival with stations, making "terrifying treats", playing Halloween-themed games, dressing up as book characters, and using Halloween-themed educational apps.
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Editor's Notes
- #5 Fasching in Esslingen, Germany by LenDog64, Flickr
- #6 Fasching in Esslingen, Germany by LenDog64, Flickr
- #8 http://theshadowlands.net/
- #9 Capzles.com
- #10 http://Tripline.net
- #11 http://www.scribblemaps.com/
- #13 http://www.jibjab.com/cast_prem/204757/skeleton_dance?category_id=69&jjchannel=halloween
- #14 http://bit.ly/skeletondancelesson
- #21 ZooBurst.com
- #22 http://www.boomwriter.com/
- #23 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/halloween-ebook/id470673667?mt=8
- #27 http://www.starfall.com/n/holiday/halloween/play.htm?f
- #28 http://abcya.com/pumpkin_carving.htm
- #29 http://bit.ly/pumpkincarvingapp
- #41 http://www.digitalplay.info/blog/2012/10/05/top-ten-for-halloween/
- #46 http://www.pearltrees.com/shellyterrell/halloween-sites-activities/id6528723
- #47 http://pear.ly/bJNTn