Lesson Plan

Halloween Lesson Plan: Middles Edition

Measure pumpkins, bust spooky myths and write a story with a twist ending.

This is the Middles Edition of Halloween: one ready-to-teach week written just for grades 4-6. Every day follows the same rhythm: Reading on Monday, Writing and Words on Tuesday, Science and Math on Wednesday, a Hands-on Project on Thursday, and Show and Tell on Friday.

The big question: Which parts of Halloween are real science, and which are just good stories?

The Week

• Mon: Where Halloween Came From (Reading) • Tue: A Story With a Twist (Writing & Words) • Wed: Pumpkin Data Lab (Science & Math) • Thu: Build a Labeled Skeleton (Hands-on Project) • Fri: Myth Busters Show (Show & Tell)

Teaching more than one level? The all-levels edition of Halloween has Littles (K-3), Middles (4-6) and Bigs (7-8) in one file, so siblings or a mixed classroom can study the same topic together.

Perfect for homeschool families, grade 4-6 classrooms, co-ops and substitute plans.

What's inside

• 5 ready-to-teach days for Middles (grades 4-6), about 60 to 90 minutes a day
• Lab sheet: Does Bigger Mean More Seeds?
• Sequence cards (The Pumpkin Life Cycle) and a cut-and-sort page (Fact or Spooky Myth?)
• Writing page: The Twist
• Hands-on project: Jointed Paper Skeleton
• Word search, crossword, scramble and secret code puzzles
• 8 fact cards, 9 vocabulary cards and a book list of 5 titles
• A certificate and an answer key for the grown-up

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