8th Grade Autumn Activities

Bring some seasonal fun into your classroom with Oops! Autumn Edition, a taboo-like game designed to challenge students' vocabulary while keeping them engaged. This interactive game will boost team collaboration, communication, and critical thinking—all while having fun! Perfect for middle school and high school students, this fall-themed activity is ideal for classroom warm-ups, brain breaks, or seasonal events.

Objective of Oops:
In this game, students work together to guess a word while avoiding specific "Oopsies" (taboo words). The clue giver provides hints without saying any of the "Oopsies," while the guesser has one minute to guess the word based on the given clues. If the clue giver says an "Oopsie," they lose a point!

What's Included:

• Teachers Guide with step-by-step instructions on how to play
• PDF Version of the game featuring a clickable game selection board and a return-to-board button on every "Oops" card
• Printable Game Tracking Sheet to keep track of points and rounds
• Online Game Versions with timers:
  • 40-second timer version
  • 1-minute timer version

How It Works:
Players pick a number from the game selection board to reveal a word and the associated "Oopsies." The clue giver describes the word without using any of the "Oopsies," while the guesser, seated with their back to the screen, tries to figure it out. You can easily track scores using the provided tracking sheet. After the set time, the next team takes a turn.

Why You'll Love It:

• No Prep Needed – Just download and play!
• Interactive and Engaging – Perfect for building vocabulary and teamwork skills.
• Seasonal Fun – Add an autumn twist to your classroom activities.

Get ready to hear your students laugh, learn, and compete in this engaging game. Great for autumn-themed lessons, Thanksgiving prep, or classroom celebrations!

Add some festive fun to your math lessons this fall with this Fall Thanksgiving Coordinate Grid Graphing activity! Students will practice their graphing skills by plotting points to create a charming picture of an owl perched on a tree limb with the word "FALL" displayed beneath it. This engaging activity reinforces coordinate plane concepts while providing a seasonal touch perfect for autumn.

What's Included:

• Two Versions for Differentiation:

  • 1st Quadrant Only: Ideal for beginners, focusing on positive coordinates for easier plotting.
  • All Four Quadrants: A more advanced version for students comfortable graphing with positive and negative coordinates.

• No Decimals: Coordinates are whole numbers only, making the activity straightforward and accessible for students.

• Answer Key: Includes a fully completed graph to make grading quick and easy.

Why You'll Love It:

• Engaging & Festive: Students will enjoy watching the owl and "FALL" design come to life as they graph, making this a perfect pre-holiday activity or math center for the fall season.
• Skill Reinforcement: This activity strengthens students' ability to plot points, understand the coordinate plane, and follow directions—all while having fun.
• Great for Sub Plans: The straightforward instructions and self-contained nature of the activity make it a fantastic choice for substitute teachers, ensuring students stay productive and engaged.
• Differentiation Options: With versions for both single-quadrant and full-quadrant graphing, this resource accommodates different skill levels in your classroom.

Perfect for classwork, homework, or as a fun seasonal math activity, this Thanksgiving Coordinate Grid Graphing resource brings math practice and creativity together. Add it to your teaching toolkit for a no-prep, engaging lesson that students will love!

For many, the passage into Autumn means a shift from Summer to the academic year. That passage is marked by changes of season. Long days and short nights turn to shorter days and longer nights. Summer days may have been filled with recreation, camp, family, and travel. Now schools days are filled with academics, homework, extracurricular activities, and busy schedules.

With all the changes, some students and families experience anxiety, stress, and difficulty balancing all they need to do. 

Our Autumn Yoga Sequence can help yoga practitioners of all ages to feel a deeper sense of balance within. 

With yoga and mindfulness, kids can become more calm, focused in school, and empowered to start every day with confidence and compassion.

Explore the benefits of Yoga and Mindfulness

• More self-awareness
• Improved focus
• Attunement to nature
• Experience in mindfulness with real-world context 
• Fun
• Promotes physical and mental wellbeing
• Improved balance 

Lesson Plans for Teachers and Parents

In our Educator’s edition, we provide 3 easy-to-follow curriculums for teachers, parents, and anyone else that works with children (split by age: young kids, kids, and tweens). 

Each lesson plan is formatted to teach an entire class and includes:

• Facilitated discussion prompts
• Group activities
• Yoga movement 
• Guided relaxations
• Crafts

Also included are:

• Printable yoga deck to learn five (5) yoga poses
• Tips for yoga and yoga card games
• Four (4) Autumn mindfulness activities
• Five (5) coloring pages 
• An Autumn story to integrate the yoga poses for literacy integration
• Journaling pages to reflect on your practice

Learn and Move with our Yoga Cards

Learn five (5) yoga poses. Written for kids, each card comes with easy-to-follow illustrations and step-by-step instructions.  In this resource, the yoga cards come in two variations: one with instructions and another version without text, which is perfect for new readers and people that may have special needs.

This Autumn yoga deck is the perfect way to de-stress and share yoga and mindfulness with children!

Practice anywhere! Use this deck at home, school, park, or when traveling! Add to your peace corner, play yoga games, practice individual poses or as a full sequence. 

Add Mindfulness to your Routine

Research shows that mindfulness can improve executive functions in their brain like cognitive control, working memory, cognitive flexibility, and better grades.

We’ve added four (4) Autumn mindfulness activities to teach your children how to manage their emotions and be present. These Fall-themed activities will get your kids excited about the changing seasons while developing their own mindfulness practice.

Also included are five (5) coloring pages of the poses so kids can mindfully color while learning the poses and a journal so they can reflect on their practice.

The Autumn Sequence is a 44-page PDF download which you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print out onto paper. We recommend cutting out each card and taping/gluing on a 4x6 index card or card stock. For added durability, laminate each card. 

Made for educators, yoga teachers, and people leading children's yoga in any setting

Includes three (3) specially designed yoga lesson plans that can be taught to kids ages 2-7, 7-11 and 11-14.

This bundle includes 4 resources. By buying the bundle you will save a lot and always have a hand on appropriate useful flashcards for your class and word serch puzzles for early engaging homework to keep your students or kids buzy learning new things. With a carefully chosen fruits & vegetables vocabulary, flashcards are in 5 languages (English-Arabic-Spanish-Chinese-Russian) and each puzzle is not only fun but an opportunity for discovering and reinforcing knowledge and vocabulary.

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Celebrate Halloween with our Cute Spooky Halloween Coloring Pages Big Bundle! This pack of Halloween coloring sheets is perfect for adding a festive touch to your classroom or home activities. The bundle includes spooky Halloween coloring pages, happy Halloween coloring sheets, and Halloween-themed quadratic activities that are perfect for October in your classroom. Engage your students with these fun Halloween art activities and spooky coloring pages. The Fall Coloring Pages for Kids Bundle is ideal for keeping young minds creative and entertained. Students love these Halloween art sheets, making them a must-have for the season. Grab this bundle for fun spooky coloring pages that will make Halloween extra special!

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Walk in My Shoes Activity tailored for this Fall/Halloween season. Students get to jot down what it would be like for others to walk a day in their shoes.

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Get ready for an after fall break reset with this no-prep four corners game! Use this digital game for an icebreaker, brain break activity, after Thanksgiving break activity, or classroom autumn activity in your middle school and high school classes. This is the perfect game to get those after fall break chatters out! Students will read the statement and choose a corner that best relates to them!

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What's Included:

• Directions Slide
• 5 Four Corner Statements with Multiple Choice Answers
• A, B, C, D Printable Classroom Labels

Directions:

• Step 1: Place A, B, C, D labels on each corner of the room.
• Step 2: Show a slide and read the statement out loud.
• Step 3: Students pick their corner based on their answer.
• Step 4: Let's chat about everyone's choices, then zoom to the next slide!

Some examples included:

• Being on fall break made me feel...
• Over fall break I spent most of my time...
• The best part of going back to school is...

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This creative Stained-Glass Tree Painting Unit was designed to be printed and displayed as examples while you teach. Use this Google Slide file to display these beautiful images one-by-one on a large screen. For this assignment, I asked students to practice drawing different trees. Next, I taught students how to draw a tree that has branches extending to the edge of the paper. I demonstrated how to outline and fill in the tree. Students created their own stained-glass tree artwork on Final Copy Paper. Students outlined and colored their artwork. Students used mostly watercolor paints for their artwork. I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy.

Fall vocabulary - 30 speaking prompt question cards in English

Want your students to use their AUTUMN and FALL vocabulary in meaningful conversations? This LOW PREP activity is a fun way to encourage your students to speak more to each other. This resource is suitable for any curriculum in which English is the language spoken, and will work best for students in 6th to 12th grade.

You can use these cards after learning specific vocabulary for fall or as a fun interactive activity on a day when you want to just focus on speaking and reviewing vocabulary in a different way.

All cards are visually stimulating and feature a circle to punch out in the upper left corner so that you can print, laminate, cut out, punch holes and hook the cards together with a ring. Using these cards this way makes it easy to pull them out year after year to use as NO PREP speaking activities. A pdf with only one card per page is included for easy projection when you don't want to print.

Included:

➤ 30 color speaking prompt cards

➤ 30 black and white speaking prompt cards

➤ 9 ways to use these cards

➤ Easy to project file for whole class activity

➤ Scoot activity instructions

➤ Scoot student recording sheet

There are many ways you can use this set of cards:

➤ Print, laminate, cut out, punch holes and attach on a ring for small groups to ask and answer questions.

➤ Project the pdf file in class to work in group or with your whole class and avoid printing.

➤ Use as a warm-up speaking activity with a conversation partner. As students enter the classroom have them choose 2-3 cards from a box.

➤ Students who finish their work earlier than others can choose a few of the cards and write out correct answers to false statements.

➤ Use as exit tickets. Give each student a card before the end of class and as they walk out of the room they tell the teacher their answer.

➤ Stations: Put students into groups and divide the cards amongst them. Have groups rotate to a new station as they finish the cards.

➤ Scoot: Put one card on each desk in the classroom. Give each student a response sheet and set a timer to give them just enough time to answer true or false and to correct the false statements. When the timer rings students move on to the next desk and the next question. All cards are numbered so it is simple to stay organized. Full instructions are included.

➤ Use the cards with board games. Students must answer a question in order to move.

➤ Use the cards as an icebreaker activity.

➤ Great resource for tutoring sessions and vocabulary building.

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You need this Ultimate Thanksgiving Bundle to get through the month of November. It's chockful of games, writing & drawing activities, including Would You Rather that will keep elementary and middle school students busy when they finish their work! Perfect for use throughout the month of November to help celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday!

I made these creative activities because I needed independent work that I could use in my classroom that I knew students would actually LIKE doing!

What's Included:

November Early Finishers Packet This monthly packet features like puzzles, games, and SEL-centered drawing and coloring activities.They'll love the fun games they can play with a partner quietly, or anything from the selection of 20 fun pages of independent, challenging puzzles and creative activities this packet offers!

Would You Rather Thanksgiving Edition This class game is a fun way to get your students excited to be in school, create relationships, and get students talking and connected! Questions are fall-themed and related to Thanksgiving. All you need to do is project the questions on the board to get the fun started, no other prep is needed!

Disguise a Turkey - MIddle School Edition Help your older students celebrate Thanksgiving with this "Disguise a Turkey" craft that's designed for middle school aged children. They'll love disguising the turkey as one of them so it doesn't get eaten this Thanksgiving!! Help the turkey blend in by designing and cutting out a hoodie, and choose from an assortment of hats. Tom the turkey will blend right into middle school!

Thanksgiving Dinner POV Writing Activity This activity includes 2 options: students will draw and label what they're eating for Thanksgiving dinner, then they can either write using the point of view of what's on their plate, using the thoughts and feelings of each item on their plate. Or, students can draw and label their ideal Thanksgiving dinner and include their all-time favorite foods, and then write about their choices on the writing page.

Happy Thanksgiving Gratitude Card Help your students celebrate Thanksgiving by being thankful as well as mindful with this card they can color! Perfect for teens and secondary students who may not have the time or patience to make a card. Choose from 3 design options for the cover of the card. The inside of the card has a short writing prompt that is designed to help students think about why they are grateful to have someone in their lives. This card is cute and a fun way for students to express their gratitude this Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving Coloring Pages Help your students celebrate Thanksgiving by being thankful as well as mindful with these coloring pages! Choose from 2 different design options. These pages are a cute and fun way for students to express their creativity this Thanksgiving.

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Looking for a fun and low-prep activity to celebrate Fall / L'automne with your beginner-level French students? This product is a bundle of word search and crossword activities that contain 31 related themed vocabulary - both come in color & BW!

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- 1 word search activity (colored)

- 1 crossword activity (colored)

- 1 word search activity (black&white)

- 1 crossword activity (black&white)

- Answer Key

Vocabulary list:

1. écureuil
2. citrouille
3. maïs
4. flaque
5. hérisson
6. parapluie
7. noix
8. marron
9. feuilles
10. arbre
11. mûres
12. forêt
13. pluie
14. conifères
15. imperméable
16. botte
17. poire
18. pomme
19. champignon
20. tarte
21. branche
22. souris
23. vent
24. épouvantail
25. récolte
26. raisin
27. soupe
28. montagne
29. escargot
30. panier
31. rateau

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This AVID Thanksgiving November Early Finisher Packet is designed to engage students with no-prep activities that reinforce WICOR skills (Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, and Reading). Perfect for keeping early finishers productive, it offers Thanksgiving-themed worksheets and fun challenges. Ideal for 5th-12th graders, this packet is a great way to combine learning and seasonal fun!

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3. option 3- students complete pieces of the packet each Friday through the month of November

21+ Pages Included in This Packet:

• A cover page
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• Academic turkey feather SMART goal writing
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• Studying strategies chart with questions and answer key
• Create your own mnemonic studying song for a core content area
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Create spooky 3D haunted houses with this exciting Halloween 3D House Craft pack. Perfect for Fall crafts and Halloween festivities, these fun templates provide a hands on experience for your students. Suitable for kindergarten and elementary classes, turn your classroom into a Halloween wonderland with these adorable 3D haunted houses. With 15 black and white templates to choose from, plus additional templates for students to draw their own haunted characters and decorations, your students will color, cut, glue, and fold the side pieces to bring these eerie haunted houses to life. This activity is an opportunity to foster creativity and collaboration in your classroom. Imagine a haunted village made by your students or unique Halloween decorations hanging around the room.

This pack includes:

• 15 templates with characters and decorations,
• 3 design your own Halloween house templates,
• 5 Draw your own Halloween character templates.

Here are some fun ways to use these templates in your classroom:

• Spooky Village Display: Create a classroom display by combining all your students haunted houses into a spooky village.
• Storytelling Prompts: Use the houses as prompts for creative writing. Your students can write spooky stories about the inhabitants of their haunted house.
• Math Activities: Incorporate math by measuring the dimensions of the houses, calculating perimeter and area, or graphing the number of windows and doors.
• Science Lessons: Discuss the materials used to make the houses and explore concepts like stability and structure in engineering.
• Art Show: Host a Halloween art show where students can showcase their haunted houses and explain their designs.
• Group Projects: Have your students work in groups to create larger, more complex haunted house scenes with multiple houses and characters.
• Scavenger Hunt: Organize a scavenger hunt where your students find and identify different features on each other's haunted houses.

Get ready to embrace the spooky season and create lasting memories with your students.

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This activity features a rigorous yet engaging digital escape room in which students tackle 5 Language Arts skills-based puzzles about Thanksgiving! (for use with Google Drive)

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging activities that encourage students to think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! Now, you can facilitate our popular Thanksgiving ELA Escape Room at home or in the classroom using your school's technology with this resource. Each task is skills-based so that with this fun lesson on a highly-anticipated holiday and impending vacation, learning is not sacrificed. This escape room encourages higher order thinking skills and a fun review of ELA material with a Thanksgiving twist.

How does it work?

Your students are stuck in your digital classroom and cannot leave for Thanksgiving break until they solve 5 challenging Language Arts skills-based tasks about Thanksgiving!

• Thanksgiving Fun Facts: In the first task, students will read 8 fun facts about Thanksgiving and must identify the parts of speech of underlined words within the passages. When matched correctly, shaded boxes will reveal the first code.
• Word Maze: In the second task, students must solve a series of word mazes. Letters they collect along the way will form their second code.
• Figuratively Speaking: In the third task, students must identify the figurative language devices used in fun Thanksgiving sentences. Shaded boxes in the correct answers form the third code.
• Landing of the Pilgrims: In the fourth task, students must perform a close reading of Landing of the Pilgrims by Felicia Dorothea Hemans, a perfect poem to study on Thanksgiving. Letters of the multiple choice question answers following the poem reveal their fourth code.
• Encrypted Message: In the final task, students must solve an encrypted Thanksgiving message using the codes and clues from the first four tasks. Once they decipher the quote about Thanksgiving and bring it to you, they are free to escape to Thanksgiving break!

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Dive into the world of Edgar Allan Poe with this no-prep, Halloween-themed activity resource designed for middle and high school students. This unit focuses on Poe’s Gothic masterpieces, The Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven. Students will analyze these stories' themes of madness, death, and the supernatural, all while exploring 19th-century American history. Ideal for building critical thinking, literary analysis, and engaging students during the Halloween season. This lesson plan provides everything you need to connect Poe’s dark themes to the broader cultural anxieties of his time.

What's Included:

• Text Analysis Worksheet for The Tell-Tale Heart extract
• Text Analysis Worksheet for The Raven extract
• Class Discussion Questions

Skills Developed Through This Activity:

• Literary Analysis: Strengthens students' ability to identify themes, symbolism, and literary devices.
• Historical Understanding: Links literature to societal and cultural developments in 19th-century America.
• Critical Thinking: Encourages students to analyze how Poe's works reflect the anxieties of his time.
• Creative Writing: Provides opportunities for students to craft their own Gothic-inspired pieces.

How to Use the Activity in Your Classroom:

1. Use the slide deck to introduce Edgar Allan Poe and 19th-century America.
2. Assign extract The Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven for reading and use the analysis worksheets to guide discussion.
3. Facilitate a Venn diagram activity comparing the themes of death, madness, and fear across both works.
4. Lead a class discussion on Poe’s works and their reflection of 19th-century anxieties.
5. Use the creative writing prompts for a fun extension activity where students write their own Gothic short stories.

Common Core Standards:

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Outcomes:

• ELA.9.4(A): Analyze the use of literary devices such as irony and figurative language.
• ELA.9.8(B): Analyze the cultural significance of Gothic literature in Poe’s time.

Let your 6th-grade students practice while having fun with this engaging, no-prep, and self-checking, adding and subtracting decimals mystery picture activity. This pixel art activity will be a great way to review your lesson, perfect for back to school review, early finishers and for students who need extra practice. Students will solve 20 operations using Google Sheets. As they correctly answer the questions a mystery picture will be revealed. I used it as a sub-plan in sixth grade and the kids loved it, they were so engaged!

It includes 20 operations with decimals and no negatives.

A set of task cards with all the questions is included.

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Suitable for IB MYP Middle Years Programme.

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Introducing our "Fall Jigsaw Coloring Puzzles" - a delightful fusion of creativity and learning!

This engaging activity set features charming Fall scenes that will captivate young minds. Assembling the puzzles not only enhances cognitive and problem-solving skills but also ignites the joy of coloring. With easy instructions, kids will have a blast putting together these puzzles, adding their personal touch with vibrant colors. Whether at home or in the classroom, these puzzles are a perfect way to kick-start the new school year with excitement and creativity. Get ready for an unforgettable Autumn experience!

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Do you need engaging Halloween and autumn-themed emergency sub plans? Then download this Bundle Emergency Sub Plans Middle School Social Studies and ELA Holidays!

• Halloween, Day of Dead, and Samhain WebQuest: Students will learn about the history, traditions, and customs of Halloween, Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos), and Samhain
• Autumn Holidays Around the World WebQuest: Students will learn about the history, traditions, and customs of a variety of autumn holidays around the world, including Diwali, Guy Fawkes Day, Homowo, El Señor de los Milagros, Loy Krathong, Chuseok, Día de los Muertos, and more!
• Monsters Around the World WebQuest: This is all students need to learn about the rakshasa, kongamato, Yule Lads, chupacabra, wendigo, ifrit, and more!

Students will finish these activities with a deeper understanding of the topics. Some research questions will be easily located, while others will require deeper exploration to find the correct answers.

When you purchase this scavenger hunt resource, you'll receive the activity in both print and digital formats. The research questions provided allow for scaffolded instruction that can be completed individually, in pairs, or in small groups. You can even use this lesson as a fun team-building or gamified activity. Your students are guaranteed to learn more with this high-quality, no-prep resource!

➟ Ways to Use This Resource:

• Full Class Activity
• Small Group Instruction
• Homework
• Extra Credit
• Substitute Plan
• ... and more!

➟ This Resource Includes:

• 3 Multi-step Question WebQuests (Print + Digital Formats)
• Reflection Questions
• Instructions & Answer Key
• Live links are provided on the last page of the resource
• Website evaluation form (to assess the appropriateness of websites as a few of the questions direct students to locate their own website).
• Terms of Use

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These order of operations without exponents matching cards are cute, fun and engaging! Your students will get a set of 32 tree cards and match the top half with the expression to the bottom half with the answer. There are 2 sets of cards. One set has the answers underneath them if you plan on cutting them out for them. The other set has mismatched questions and answers so the students can do the cutting without knowing the answer ahead of time!

All top halves of the cards are numbered so students can show work on their workspace and keep the work organized and make it easier for you to see if they are correct!

What you get:

- 32 Tree Cards (4 cards to a paper)

- 3 sets of Student Direction Cards

• a card for if you cut the cards out for them
• a card for if they cut the cards out
• a card for if you don't give all 32 cards at once

- Workspace Page

TOPICS

• Order of Operations without exponents
• Order of Operations with addition, subtraction, multiplication, division & distribution

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