Halloween Activities for Third Grade Technology
Interactive Halloween activities familiarize third grade students with computer use and technology skills through play activities. Learning to navigate virtual games and puzzles helps students feel comfortable with more complex computer applications in the future. Engaging graphics and simple functions keep online Halloween play fun and educational. Does this Spark an idea?
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Carve a Digital Pumpkin and Solve an Online Puzzle
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Carve a digital pumpkin or play a virtual jigsaw puzzle. Read a story online about a bat and carve a face or design on a virtual pumpkin using a "third grade enrichment with technology Halloween activity" plan posted by Our Lady of Providence School (olp-school.org). This lesson plan also includes links to interactive Halloween crossword, jigsaw and word search puzzles. ABCTeach also has several interactive word search and crossword Halloween puzzles, in addition to dozens of printable puzzles and worksheets.
A Halloween Safety Game and Interactive Coloring Pages
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Third graders play an interactive Halloween safety game at Alphabet Soup. Play 10 different interactive Halloween games at the Alphabet Soup website. The site offers interactive coloring pages, digital crossword and word search puzzles, a Halloween safety game, three different virtual dot-to-dot pictures and a Halloween quiz. This site also features an extensive Halloween area full of costume ideas, treat recipes, party ideas, Halloween poems and songs, crafts, links and books.
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Play Halloween Games Online
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Play games online with ghosts, withces and pumpkins. Help a witch protect her pumpkins from ghosts playing the game Whack-o-wheen on Kaboose's website. Other activities available are an online Halloween coloring game with digital coloring pages and colors to add, as well as stickers to place in the scenes. Add facial features to a virtual pumpkin or play a digital game of "What's The Difference," identifying subtle differences in Halloween pictures that look the same. This site also offers two other interactive Halloween games: Transylmania and Streamer Screamer.
Day of the Dead Activities
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Learn about a Mexican holiday that corresponds with Halloween. Corresponding with Halloween is the Mexican holiday, the Day of the Dead. Use this time to educate about this holiday and its customs. The Smithsonian Institute has an interactive Day of the Dead section, which includes features about customs, beliefs, symbolism and altars. AZCentral offers a lesson plan for the Day of the Dead, which includes several types of technology such as articles, slide shows and videos. A downloadable pdf is available with coloring pages, puzzles and patterns for skeleton puppets and a calavera mask. Articles include foods for the Day of the Dead and recipes for bread of the dead, which is shaped into skeletons performing activities. The videos include explanations of Day of the Dead symbolism, traditions and altars. Slide shows include preparation of the graves for the holiday and street fairs in Mixquic, Mexico.
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