Halloween
This list provides ideas for linking Halloween to your lessons including: a cross-curricular resource about growing pumpkins, using an irreversible reaction to make a freaky hand, making a magic potion in maths and listening to spooky sounds from Space.
Pumpkins against Poverty
This cross curricular resource explores the difference that growing pumpkins can make to the lives of people living in flood affected regions in Bangladesh. It includes finding out about Bangladesh and its people and ways to address poverty, investigating the pumpkin lifecycle and seed germination, designing and making seed packets and cooking using pumpkin recipes.
The Little Book of Experiments
Page 45 make shrunken heads
The apple dries, shrinks and changes shape. Freshly cut apples turn brown when
iron-containing chemicals inside apple cells react with oxygen in the air. The
chemical reaction is called oxidation, and it is similar to the rusting of iron. When you
soaked your apple in lemon juice, the acid in the lemon juice affects this reaction and
keeps the apple from browning too much.
Measures
Dressed as a witch, a Year Three teacher encourages her class to measure different volumes of coloured liquids accurately in order to make one litre of their own magic potion.
Science ideas for Halloween
Spooky lava lamps, fake blood, creepy density, weighing pumpkins. Loads of science ideas to investigate this halloween or if you'd rather hold a Monster tea party.
Animal Symmetry (Age 7 to 9) *suitable for home teaching*
Produced by ARKive this resource aimed at Key Stage Two is a collection of eight animal symmetry worksheets. Children are asked to complete the reflection of various animals to show that they exhibit reflective symmetry.
Each sheet also includes an image of the animal and key facts about it. The resource uses four animals from colder climates and four animals associated with Halloween so they could be used in a seasonal context.
Bones of the Body Bingo Cards
This activity aimed at EYFS is a bingo game designed to help children learn about the human skeleton. It contains two sets of cards one showing bones of the body and the other the names of the bones corresponding to the pictures.
Provided by Early Years Learning HQ, the cards may be printed out and laminated for use in a number of ways
Spooky Space: Creative Teaching of Space
Spooky Space contains activities, teaching materials and examples of students’ work for teaching space at primary level within science lessons and as a stimulus for enriching the teaching of other curriculum areas.
Spooky Space Sounds contains a PowerPoint presentation which showcases sounds from space. The presentation aims to introduce general concepts and give a sense of how dynamic the Universe is. The resource also contains a Word document of teachers' notes with detailed descriptions and background information on each of the sounds. These could be used as ‘space’ sound effects in a cross-curricular ICT and literacy project on writing science fiction stories
