Tes Secondary: Halloween

A selection of hand-picked Halloween resources for the secondary classroom

Tes Resources Team

Halloween resources for secondary students

Explore and celebrate Halloween with your students with this spooktacular selection of hand-picked resources

As we rapidly move into autumn, the nights are longer and the days colder; students are gearing up for Halloween and a half term break of horror. So why not bring the festivities into the classroom and use them engage your students with the learning. 

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Halloween activities for subject areas

Halloween Equations
crafter1

Halloween Equations

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Halloween themed solving equations - only suitable for low ability KS4 or mid-low KS3. They do only have positive integer answers, so you may want to insist they show you their written methods to avoid too much cheating!
Halloween English
EnglishGCSEcouk

Halloween English

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Halloween English punctuation workshop that supports students to develop their use of punctuation and grammar by providing them with differentiated worksheets on capital letters, full stops, commas, paragraphing, apostrophes, semi-colons and dashes. By the end of the lesson students are given reward...
English Literature - Intro to The Gothic - Epistolary
CMillerEnglish

English Literature - Intro to The Gothic - Epistolary

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This lesson introduces the concept of 'epistolary' within the Gothic genre, looking specifically at two examples from Bram Stoker's Dracula. Activities move from analysis to evaluation to creative writing. This lesson is suitable for higher ability KS3 students, but could also work for KS4.
Halloween Art/Craft
Made_for_teachers

Halloween Art/Craft

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This Halloween Art Worksheet will bring seasonal cheer to your classroom! Students are tasked to sketch and create a Halloween Hanging Wall Art. Students are introduced to the famous Artist Matisse. They are then set three tasks - 1. Select a minimum of 2 Halloween Inspired Images below, these ima...
THE Ultimate Science of Halloween Quiz
Carina Bone

THE Ultimate Science of Halloween Quiz

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8 rounds with 60 science and Halloween quiz questions combined! Great for those end of half term filler lessons and to have a bit of fun with your learners! Rounds include: The Science of Halloween (multiple choice 10 questions linking Science and Halloween) Creepy Crawlies (multiple choice...
Halloween Coordinates
mrshopehistory

Halloween Coordinates

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Halloween coordinate worksheet activities to share with your KS3 secondary students (Or KS2 primary if you are really looking to challenge them!) Included in this resource is a student facing PowerPoint (with teacher notes - hidden slide 2), and 3 sets of coordinates for students to plot on their ...
French Halloween Mystery Activity
Bayside Teaching Resources

French Halloween Mystery Activity

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A fun resource to revise French whilst solving the Haunted House Mystery. Activities cover rooms in the house, furniture and Halloween vocabulary. Pupils are given a scenario and a list of suspects. They then work through the activities to find clues which allow them to eliminate suspects and ultima...
Catacombs Escape Room     KS3 French
labelleetoile

Catacombs Escape Room KS3 French

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An atmospheric interactive escape room to revise the **perfect tense** in the depths of the Paris catacombs. Designed for KS3 students, this immersive 10 15-minute challenge is ideal as a plenary or quick revision activity. **Storyline** Students find themselves trapped in the catacombs on a scho...