8th grade Halloween for all subjects simulations

Growth Mindset Escape Room | Middle and High School

Created by

Want a fun and engaging way to teach perseverance, grit, teamwork and why having a growth mindset is important? This Growth Mindset Escape Room is the perfect challenge for middle and high school students to both teach the concepts of a growth mindset and to have fun. ● ● ● Students are given the a scenario where their school is taken over by the evil Dr. Dread, with the only way out is to use their brain power before it turns to mush. By working together, and figuring out the clues, studen

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, School Counseling

Grades:

7th - 10th

Types:

Activities, Simulations

Also included in: Escape Room Counseling Bundle | Friendship Growth Mindset Career

College and Career Awareness Escape Room | College and Career Exploration

Created by

Carol Miller - Counseling Essentials

This College and Career Escape Room is the perfect challenge for students to build teamwork and learn about awareness of their college and career options. Students will be exposed to college terminology, the branches of the military, and various career paths. Students are given the a scenario where there school is invade by aliens who want to learn about college and career options on earth and the only way to save everyone from infiltration is for students to work together to solve the chall

Subjects:

Career and Technical Education, For All Subjects, School Counseling

Grades:

5th - 10th

Types:

Activities, Simulations

Also included in: Escape Room Counseling Bundle | Friendship Growth Mindset Career

Insanity Plea -- "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe

Created by

Arik Durfee

This is a fun activity to help students analyze a classic short story and practice using logical evidence and reason in persuasive writing and speech. NOTICE that this "Insanity Plea" activity is included in the Psychotic Short Stories unit, so don't purchase both as you'd be paying twice for the same thing! One of the most fascinating aspects of Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart," is the fact that the narrator insists so adamantly that he is NOT insane while explaini

Subjects:

Criminal Justice - Law, Halloween, Writing

Grades:

7th - 10th

Types:

Activities, Simulations

Would You Survive The Salem Witch Trials?

Created by

Wilson Workshop

NO PREP! Students will simulate what it was like to live in Salem during the time of the Witch Trials. Perfect activity to use during Halloween, after discussing the Witch Trials or Colonial America, or after teaching the Crucible! Google Compatible and includes a Slides-based worksheet for students to follow along! PLEASE NOTE: This activity is designed to do as a whole class, so it will show outcomes for all chosen decisions.If you enjoy the witch trials be sure to check out "Would You Survive

Subjects:

Halloween, Other (Specialty), Social Studies - History

Grades:

5th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Simulations

College and Career Awareness Activities/Budgeting/Personal Financial Literacy

Created by

Carol Miller - Counseling Essentials

Want an engaging Career Lesson that will help kids understand the connection between lifestyle and salary? This Adulting Lesson is a great addition to any career and college awareness program. Students will learn all about budgeting and financial management as they enter the adult world, obtain a career, get paid a salary, make lifestyle choices, and pay bills. It's not until the end will they figure out if they can stay within a budget.●●● Students are given a career with a salary. Their sa

Subjects:

Career and Technical Education, For All Subjects, School Counseling

Grades:

5th - 9th

Types:

Activities, Simulations

Also included in: Middle School Classroom Guidance Lessons Bundle | SEL Counseling Lessons

Halloween Escape Room - Digital & ELA Skill-Based!

Created by

Smiling in Sixth

This Halloween digital escape room is a fun way for kids to practice some key English Language Arts skills while be a completely no prep activity for you! This fun digital escape room is completed on Google Forms. Students will be a part of a group of friend’s adventure that begins when they accept a dare to go into a haunted house on Halloween night. The friends get trapped in the house by the mansion’s ghost and must solve 12 clues and complete 12 ELA skill-based challenges to move on to the n

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Halloween, Holidays/Seasonal

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Games, Simulations

MOCK TRIAL! - The Guide, Rubrics, and Handouts to the Ultimate Project

Created by

Jake Miller's Creative Social Studies

Would you like to see your students rise to the highest of expectations? Watch your students transform into lawyers pushing the envelope of persuasion, witnesses carefully building a case, or judge/jury to conduct it fairly and appropriately. Do you want to have some of the most fun in your teaching life? Then purchase this Word document - easily my most downloaded and highly rated product - and customize it for your students and the trial of your choice. There are role descriptions and customiz

Subjects:

Criminal Justice - Law, For All Subjects, Social Studies - History

Grades:

5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

Types:

Projects, Simulations

Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart Reader's Theater Play

Created by

Mackowiecki Lewis

Originally published in the October 2008 issue of Scholastic's Storyworks magazine (and later reprinted in Scope, Scholastic News, and my book, Read Aloud Plays: Classic Short Stories), this newly-revised script is true to the original text but is cleverly structured to be more appropriate for middle grade and young adult audiences. It includes the original text, a comprehension worksheet, a "mock trial" activity, as well as teacher notes and a key--fourteen pages in all. Parts for 9 students, s

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Drama, Halloween

Grades:

5th - 9th

Types:

Worksheets, Scripts, Simulations

Edgar Allan Poe Activity CSI Mystery of Literary History Analysis

Created by

Learning Pyramid

Explore Edgar Allan Poe's greatest mystery: his own death! Your students will explore primary sources, non-fiction text, and leading theories about Poe's early death with this engaging crime scene investigation activity that encourages original thinking!A visually engaging case file is provided with comprehensive background readings on Edgar Allan Poe's life and literary accomplishments, and the events and circumstances leading up to his death. Leading theories about Poe's death are provided. St

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Halloween, Social Studies - History

Grades:

5th - 10th

Types:

Activities, DBQs, Simulations

CCSS:

, W.8.1e

...

Summer Break Simulation | Last Day of School Activity

Created by

Mr and Mrs Social Studies

This no-prep, game-based Summer Camp Simulation will be a fun activity for the last day of school! In this last day of school activity with printable and digital options, students will participate in a game-based simulation in which they attend a summer camp with many different activities, events, and social opportunities!Simulations can be such fun and meaningful activities, but they often take a lot of work and preparation to set up, which is why we did all of the work for you! You don't need

Subjects:

End of Year, For All Subjects, Summer

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Activities, Simulations

Also included in: Seasonal Activities and Printables for Teachers | Fall Winter Spring Summer

Class Escape: Halloween Edition

Created by

Erin Smith ELA

My students loved my original Class Escape, so I created the HALLOWEEN EDITION when they begged me to make another! Modeled after the popular "Escape" games in many cities around the country, this classroom version prompts students to work together as a class to solve puzzles, connect the clues, and crack the code! Your students will be totally engaged in this hands-on, Halloween-themed challenge! You will need the following tools: - tape - color printer (preferred) or regular printer - scisso

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Halloween

Grades:

6th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff

Types:

Games, Simulations

Financial Literacy - Budgeting - Money Management: 14-Day MS-EXCEL Simulation

Created by

Education Get Real - EGR

FINANCIAL LITERACY - BUDGETING - MONEY MANAGEMENT 14-Day MS-EXCEL VERSION SIMULATION – is a very comprehensive, exciting, and interactive computerized real world turn-key activity/simulation whereby students “Flip the Die” for their “Station in Life” and experience “The Real World” according to the roll of the die -- it is guaranteed to keep students “on their toes! This simulation can be used for years to come and in all disciplines — it never becomes obsolete. This version has been created

Subjects:

Career and Technical Education, For All Subjects, Vocational Education

Grades:

8th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Simulations

Halloween Activities for Secondary ELA - Halloween Writing, Research, and Games

Created by

Nouvelle ELA

Are you looking for seasonal activities to promote creativity, analysis, and critical thinking? These Halloween activities for Secondary ELA include nonfiction articles, creative writing, research, drama games, and much more! (optimized for grades 7-10)What You Get:1. Sweet Symbolism (paper + ISN) - 45-60 minutesStudents identify concrete and abstract qualities of an object to analyze symbolism. I start with Tootsie Pops, making this a great seasonal activity! Includes a PPT on Symbolism & A

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Halloween, Writing

Grades:

7th - 10th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Simulations

Career Exploration Lesson and Career Research Workbook

Created by

Carol Miller - Counseling Essentials

This Career Exploration and Career Research Lesson is a great addition to any career and college awareness program. Students will learn about the 6 career Fields and 16 Career Clusters while competing a career cluster survey. Students will then research a career of their choosing by competing a student workbook. This lesson may be used digitally or in person. A PowerPoint presentation will guide the students through their career project and the student workbooks are available in either pdf o

Subjects:

Career and Technical Education, For All Subjects, School Counseling

Grades:

5th - 9th

Types:

Activities, Simulations

Also included in: Middle School Classroom Guidance Lessons Bundle | SEL Counseling Lessons

Choose Your Adventure: Dystopia

Created by

Reading with Rachel

Immerse your students in the world of Dystopian literature with this "Choose Your Adventure" activity! Students are inserted into the story as the protagonist and are given a series of choices that will determine their fate. There are 74 choices and 28 possible endings! They must navigate through social classes, a rebellion, totalitarian rule, and a dubious government. Use as a hook activity for a novel, a genre study, or to accompany another dystopian text!

Subjects:

English Language Arts, For All Subjects, Gifted and Talented

Grades:

6th - 10th

Types:

Activities, Games, Simulations

Life Dice Budget Simulation Game

Created by

Career Focused

This career and budgeting lesson is built for high school students to recognize the struggles of "adulting". This lesson is a great spur-of-the-moment game or can be built into instruction across many areas of study including but not limited to: Government/Economics, Math, Career Preparedness, Personal Finance, etc. The purpose of this lesson/game was to provide students an opportunity to learn about budgeting and experience elements of the “real world” within the safety and comfort of a class

Subjects:

Career and Technical Education, For All Subjects, Life Skills

Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Games, Simulations

Halloween Social Skills Task Cards

Created by

Carol Miller - Counseling Essentials

Halloween Social Skills Task Cards are 64 task cards that will help your students practice how to enter and maintain conversations dealing with Halloween, problem solve difficult situations that might arise, practice body language and wording of answers for situations, and talk about what they do and love about this holiday. ● ● ● Students can really struggle with knowing what to say and do in tough situations, and these social skills cards can help walk them through it.►► Includes:✅ 16 Trick

Subjects:

Halloween, School Counseling, Special Education

Grades:

4th - 10th

Types:

Activities, Simulations, Task Cards

Also included in: Social Skills Task Card Bundle

Snowman Detective Mystery | Problem Solving | Escape Room | Growth Mindset

Created by

Carol Miller - Counseling Essentials

Experience the thrill of being a detective to follow the clues and solve the Case of the Missing Snowman. Can you find the solution before time runs out? This Clue Mystery Game is the perfect teambuilder challenge for upper elementary and middle school students to both teach teambuilding and problem solving.● ● ● Students are given the a scenario describing the mysterious disappearance of the class snowman. Then they must use their Clue Recording Sheet to elimate suspects, time of incident,

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, School Counseling

Grades:

4th - 8th

Types:

Activities, Simulations

Also included in: Middle School Classroom Guidance Lessons Bundle | SEL Counseling Lessons

Halloween Origins and History Activity CSI Mystery of History Analysis

Created by

Learning Pyramid

Explore the mysterious origins of Halloween, Halloween history, and related traditions like Día de Muertos and Samhain! Your students will explore leading theories about the origins of Halloween with this engaging crime scene investigation activity that encourages original thinking!A visually engaging case file is provided with comprehensive background readings on the history of Halloween, along with Día de Muertos. Leading theories about the origins of the Halloween are provided, spanning from

Subjects:

Halloween, Holidays/Seasonal, Social Studies - History

Grades:

5th - 10th

Types:

Activities, DBQs, Simulations

CCSS:

, W.8.1e

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Conflict Resolution Escape Room | Problem Solving | Team Building

Created by

Carol Miller - Counseling Essentials

Experience the thrill of problem solving and conflict resolution in our immersive escape room. Can you find the solution before time runs out? This Conflict Resolution Escape Room is the perfect teambuilder challenge for middle school students to both teach the concepts of a conflict resolution and problem solving. ● ● ● Students are given the a scenario where they're having a not so great day and the only way to turn things around is to use the skills and strategies of solving problems to es

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, School Counseling

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Activities, Simulations

Also included in: Middle School Classroom Guidance Lessons Bundle | SEL Counseling Lessons

Public Speaking and Debate Activities for Middle and High School

Created by

Miss Bee's Bodega

Help your students build their confidence while having fun with this collection of public speaking and debate activities. These games and exercises would be great for middle or high school Model United Nations, English, and drama classes, or for use in any context in which students practice speech and argumentation. Instructions for 22 different activities are included, along with hundreds of prompt and topic ideas. Activities included: The Bowl of DestinyFight the FillerSynergistic SpeechesTalk

Subjects:

Drama, English Language Arts, For All Subjects

Grades:

7th - 10th

Types:

Teacher Manuals, Activities, Simulations

CCSS:

CCRA.SL.1

, CCRA.SL.4

, CCRA.SL.6

Also included in: Model UN Lesson and Activity Bundle

Mock Interview Questions, Templates, and Resources for Google Drive

Created by

Mr and Mrs Social Studies

These Mock Interview Questions and Supplemental Resources for Google Drive can help prepare your students for their future job interviews in a meaningful way! All of the resources are completely editable and ready to post on Google Classroom.This resource includes the following editable files:Teacher Guide (Google Doc)Job Interview Slideshow (Google Slides)Mock Interview Question Sheet (Google Doc)Mock Interview Sign-up Sheet (Google Doc)Mock Interview Grading Sheet (Google Doc)To use this resou

Subjects:

Career and Technical Education, For All Subjects, Vocational Education

Grades:

8th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Simulations

CCSS:

, SL.8.6

...

Also included in: Life Skills Bundle | Career + College Readiness, Financial Literacy, Studying

Game-Based Simulation Template for Google Drive

Created by

Mr and Mrs Social Studies

Due to the popularity of our game-based simulations and frequent requests for new topics, we have now created this simulation template so you can create your own simulation following the same outline and flow of our game-based simulations.Please note that this template is not available for commercial use, so you may not sell a simulation created using this template.This simulation template includes the documents, formatting, and step-by-step directions to create a game-based simulation about any

Subjects:

For All Subjects, Social Studies - History

Grades:

6th - 9th

Types:

Activities, Simulations

Host Your Own Classroom Murder Mystery Masquerade Ball!

Created by

Adventures with Mrs Anderson

Do you teach a mystery novel/unit/genre study? Need something AMAZING for Halloween? Want to be remembered as the most AWESOME TEACHER EVER? My students' absolute FAVORITE events of the whole year was the murder mystery masquerade ball I put on after students read Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. Three weeks before the event, I would send out mysterious invitations alluding to a masquerade ball. Two weeks before the event, I would give students their character cards. These cards inclu

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Halloween, Problem Solving

Grades:

6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

Types:

Activities, Simulations

CCSS: