High school Halloween algebra 2 simulations

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

Created by

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

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

Linear Equations Project Cost of College

Created by

Education with DocRunning

Bring real-world applications that are relevant to students with this linear equations project on college costs. Students examine the cost of individual colleges and compare colleges using linear equations. For students ready for systems of equations, students evaluate the impact of grant money on the overall cost. Great to get students thinking about and researching colleges now! Included in this resource:- Ready-to-use student pages- Teacher's Guide- Answer Key- Separate powerpoint file w

Subjects:

Algebra, Algebra 2, End of Year

Grades:

10th - 12th

Types:

Projects, Activities, Simulations

CCSS:

Also included in: Algebra 2 Curriculum

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

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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

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

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

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

...

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:

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Halloween Forensic Science Crime Scene Investigation Blood Spatter Activity

Created by

EasyFunScience

Are you looking for a fun and engaging science activity for Halloween? Introduce your students to blood spatter analysis in forensics and how investigators use blood droplets in forensics to solve crimes. You will definitely want to add this not-so-scary, hands-on experiment to your list of mock crime scene investigations (CSI) activities. Your upper elementary or middle school students will love this mock crime scene classroom activity! This activity was designed for my homeschool co-op, but i

Subjects:

Forensics, Halloween, Science

Grades:

5th - 9th

Types:

Activities, Laboratory, Simulations

Also included in: Easy and Fun Halloween Science Activities for Middle and High School Bundle

Salem Witch Simulation Card Game

Created by

Teach History BETTER

Salem Witch Trials - Card Game Simulation This card game is a low-prep activity ready for your classroom! This Salem Witch Trial Game is meant to be a simulation for students to understand the hysteria and paranoia during a witch hunt. The objective of the game is to “execute” any witches present among the group. But there is always a twist...Like the Salem Witch Trials, there are no witches! This is an excellent activity to accompany a lesson about the Salem Witch Trials or Arthur Miller's "Th

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Halloween, U.S. History

Grades:

8th - 12th

Types:

Games, Simulations

Quest: The Night Terror- A Nature of Science Observation/Inference Challenge

Created by

Hellmund Science

A farmer's cattle has been attacked at night by an unknown predator in the game world of Aureus Imperium! He begs your students to help him discover the predator's identity so that he can protect his remaining cattle! Your students will use evidence found at the farm as well as bite marks discovered on the injured cattle's hide to infer the predator's identity! Their inferences must be based on careful observations rather than opinions and assumptions. Although students are engaged with trying t

Subjects:

General Science, Halloween, Science

Grades:

6th - 9th

Types:

Activities, Simulations, Lesson

Also included in: Nature of Science, Bias, and Graphing Bundle!

Unit Circle Shrinky Dink Template

Created by

Love Math to Infinity Products

Create a first quadrant model of the Unit Circle. Make learning and memorizing the Unit Circle fun and engaging! Trace the template onto a clear Shrinky Dink sheet, then bake to shrink down to a hard, scaled quarter unit circle. High School students may shrink on their own at home or you can shrink!There are three pieces: The Quadrant One piece marked with the first quadrant and angles in degrees and radians, in addition to the cosine measurements from 0 to 1.The Radius piece, marked with the on

Subjects:

Algebra 2, PreCalculus, Trigonometry

Grades:

9th - 12th

Types:

Projects, Activities, Simulations

Measure Objects Using Trig - Clinometer Activity

Created by

Math Martinez

This guided worksheet is the perfect lesson for students to experience trigonometry around their schools! Students can use the compass app on their iphones to measure the angles of elevation to calculate heights of different objects around campus.

Subjects:

Algebra 2, Geometry, Trigonometry

Grades:

9th - 12th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Simulations

Non Functional Vending Machine

Created by

Causey's Interactive Algebra CIA

This powerpoint is used to engage students before learning about functions. When you click on a number it will go to the coresponding candy. If you press the push button on the machine it will lead you to a table. The A2 button is special, if you click on the A it will lead to the Pops candy. If you click on the 2 it will lead to the Dots. (This is the non function part) You can ask the students is this a functional vending machine. They will say no because when you pressed the A2 button you got

Subjects:

Algebra, Algebra 2

Grades:

9th - 12th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Simulations

Exponential Growth/Decay Hands On: Penny Toss | High Interest | End of the Year

Created by

Madalyn Searson

Thank you for purchasing this resource and supporting my store. I love using this activity in Algebra 1 to discuss exponential growth and decay. I also use it in my Algebra 2 course as a review activity before we enter our exponential functions unit. My students get really excited to use pennies in the classroom and see real-life applications in math. I follow along with the desmos activity linked below to help students form their graphs. This activity does require a little prep with pennies and

Subjects:

Algebra, Algebra 2, Math

Grades:

9th - 11th

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Simulations

CCSS:

HSF-IF.C.8b

Also included in: Bundle & Save: Intro to Exponential Functions Growth/Decay Activity

Simple vs. Compound Interest Investment Project

Created by

Student Centered Mathematics

Bring some real world experience to your classroom with this project that turns your students into investment advisors working for clients to reach a 10 year financial goal. Students must choose from a selection of simple and compound investments to develop a sequence of investments that will maximize client growth or return on investment. I award bonus points for students who can not only meet the client's goal but also earn 51% growth or higher. I detail the lesson plan in my video but he

Subjects:

Algebra, Algebra 2, Word Problems

Grades:

8th - 11th

Types:

Projects, Assessment, Simulations

CCSS:

Preparedness Teamwork Activity SEL with a Zombie Halloween Activity

Created by

Kenneth Hynes

This is a combination of SEL Teamwork activities, thinking outside the box, planning, and a fun Halloween Zombie activity that is prepared using the guidelines of the CDC. The zombie portion of activities are user friendly with directions and areas to type for each student. This is setup to be completed in groups of 4. Includes: 4 different group activities - Assign one slide show to the group so that they can cooperatively work on it.Teacher Example provided.Step by Step prompts to push their t

Subjects:

Halloween, Health, Social Emotional Learning

Grades:

5th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Simulations

Also included in: Halloween Edition - Reading, Writing, SEL, and More - National Day Bundle

Bundle & Save: Intro to Exponential Functions Growth/Decay Activity

Created by

Madalyn Searson

These two resources are amazing activities for an intro to exponential functions growth and decay for Algebra 1 students, as well as review for Algebra 2 students.

Subjects:

Algebra, Algebra 2, Math

Grades:

9th - 11th

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Simulations

CCSS:

HSF-IF.C.8b

Transformations Discovery Activity

Created by

We Teach Math

This is a discovery activity dealing with transformations of absolute value graphs, constant graphs, linear graphs, and quadratic graphs. Students will use sliders on Desmos Online Graphing Calculator to see how each variable affects the parent graph of a function. Students will then draw conclusions and answer questions about similar functions without looking at the graph based on what they discovered. Note: You will need computers. We suggest pairing students in groups of two.

Subjects:

Algebra, Algebra 2

Grades:

9th - 11th

Types:

Activities, Simulations

Exponential Function Transformations Digital Activity

Created by

Boldly Inspired Curriculum

Have you noticed that your students just follow the steps of a problem, but don't actually understand it? This exponential function interactive graph allows the students to change the values of each part of the equation to see the transformations. This entire Google Sheet is editable and pre-coded to change the y-values based on the a, b, x, h, and k inputs.Additionally, there are open-ended reflection questions that the students will answer along with the interactive graph. All of these questio

Subjects:

Algebra 2, Math, PreCalculus

Grades:

9th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Simulations

CCSS:

HSF-BF.B.3

, HSF-LE.A.2

, HSF-LE.A.3

Also included in: Parent Functions and Transformations Digital Activity Bundle

Investing in the Stock Market

Created by

MsMaryMath

This project was created for a consumer math class. It has the students selecting 3 stocks, and buying different amounts based on their budget (I chose budgets and had them draw from a hat). Students will then track the 3 stocks for a month (I have them back track dates on Yahoo! Finance's History tab), and then graphing their gains or losses. Students will then finish by summarizing their month.

Subjects:

Algebra, Algebra 2, Other (Math)

Grades:

9th - 12th

Types:

Projects, Simulations

Parent Functions and Transformations Digital Activity Bundle

Created by

Boldly Inspired Curriculum

Help your students get a better understanding of function transformations with these interactive graphs! All of the Google Sheets are editable and pre-coded, so all you will need to do is share them with your students. Save 20% when you purchase the whole bundle!Topics Included:Absolute value functionsCubic functionsEnd behaviorExponential functionsQuadratic functions

Subjects:

Algebra 2, Math, PreCalculus

Grades:

10th - 11th

Types:

Activities, Simulations

CCSS: