
This Hallowe’en Powerpoint presentation details some of the customs and traditions surrounding this celebration. It includes information on the origins of Hallowe’en, customs, games, food, dressing up and how the Irish took the Hallowe’en tradition to America. [click to continue…]

Eight rounds of six questions, a tie-break round and answers to all questions on 145 Powerpoint slides. I’ve attempted to provide a variety of questions from different curricular areas with varying degrees of difficulty. Hopefully, there is a mixture of easy enough questions and some to challenge the better able pupils. The aim really is that pupils should be able to get a good few correct with the harder ones there to sort out winners. At the end of each round is a Hallowe’en Joke to get kids into festive mood. [click to continue…]
Great Visual Arts Lesson Plan, the aim of which is to get pupils to design and create an inventive, distinctive and original Halloween costume that they can wear into school at Hallowe’en. The emphasis is on creativity, so pupils must create the costume and not simply buy a commercial one. The lesson plan gives detailed instructions on Strands and skills, and also gives pupils criteria to bear in mind [click to continue…]

Scoilnet have a selection of more than fifty themepages that cover many different curricular areas such as Italy, the Titanic, Ancient Egypt, Music in the classroom and many others. However, at this time of the year teachers will be very interested to visit the Hallowe’en Themepage to get inspiration for seasonal lessons . There are suggestions on Visual Arts lessons, the history of Hallowe’en, Hallowe’en food, the science of the skeleton, [click to continue…]