9th Grade Autumn Resources

Turkey Photo Craft | Fun Thanksgiving Keepsake Activity for Kids

Make Thanksgiving extra special with this adorable Turkey Photo Craft! Perfect for classrooms, homeschool activities, or family gatherings, this craftivity lets kids create a unique turkey photo frame that captures their personality. Featuring a colorful turkey tail, customizable photo spot, and fun, easy-to-follow templates, this craft will be a hit with young learners and families alike!

This Thanksgiving activity is great for promoting creativity, fine motor skills, and holiday excitement. Kids can add their own photo to the frame and decorate the turkey’s feathers, making each craft unique. Hang it up as classroom decor, send it home as a seasonal keepsake, or use it as part of a Thanksgiving display.

What’s Included:

• Printable turkey templates with a spot for photos
• Easy-to-follow instructions for teachers and parents
• A colorful and kid-friendly design that kids will love

Perfect for: Thanksgiving classroom activities, holiday-themed crafts, preschool and elementary Thanksgiving projects, fine motor skill development, family keepsakes, and festive holiday decor.

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This set of 3 Fall reading comprehension passages for 8th, 9th, and 10th grade is designed to engage students with high-interest, nonfiction content. It is ideal for building reading comprehension skills through engaging and thought-provoking material about fall season.

The passages include:

• Autumnal/Fall Equinox: This passage explains the science behind the equinox, exploring how the Earth's tilt affects daylight hours and its cultural significance around the world.
• The Fall Harvest: Students will learn about the economic importance of fall harvests, including the role of crops like pumpkins and apples in supporting agriculture and local economies.
• Why Do Our Moods Change in the Fall?: This passage examines the reasons why people often experience mood shifts during fall, including the effects of daylight changes and the impact on our biological rhythms like circadian rhythm.

Each passage is followed by 10 short-answer questions to assess students' understanding, with answer keys included. This versatile resource can be used as a whole-class activity, small group discussion, or independent assignment.

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This 38 image fall corn themed clipart set has everything corn related that you need for your autumn, harvest, or thanksgiving resources! From colored corn, emotion corn, corn stalks, cornbread, scarecrow, and more!

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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!

Make math fun this Thanksgiving with this Thanksgiving Fall Coordinate Grid Graphing Picture activity! Students will practice their graphing skills by plotting points to reveal a cute and humorous image of a turkey running away, shouting "Help!" This engaging activity is perfect for reinforcing coordinate graphing while adding a festive touch to your lessons.

What's Included:

• Two Versions for Differentiation:

  • 1st Quadrant Only: Ideal for beginners, this version helps students practice graphing positive coordinates only.
  • All Four Quadrants: A more challenging version for students comfortable with both positive and negative coordinates.

• No Decimals: Straightforward plotting with whole number coordinates, making it easy for students to graph accurately.

• Answer Key: Save time with a complete, easy-to-follow answer key.

Why You'll Love It:

• Engaging & Festive: Students will enjoy watching the picture of the turkey emerge as they graph, making this activity perfect for a pre-holiday math lesson.
• Skill Reinforcement: Great for practicing plotting points, understanding the coordinate plane, and reinforcing spatial awareness.
• Differentiation Options: With versions for both single-quadrant and full-quadrant graphing, you can easily cater to different skill levels in your classroom.

This Thanksgiving Coordinate Grid Graphing activity is ideal for classwork, homework, or a fun seasonal math center. Add it to your math resources and watch your students' enthusiasm for graphing soar!

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 word search puzzle will introduce and reinforce Autumn vocabulary words for your students. It covers 37 vocabulary words to find in every direction except backward, which kids will enjoy figuring out. word search puzzles make a great introduction to a lesson, but they could also be used for a test or homework.

The vocabulary words covered in this crossword are: Acorn, Autumn, Berries, Branch, Chestnut, Clouds, Coat, Cobweb, Cold, Corn, Fall, Fog, Grapes, Halloween, Harvest, Hedgehog, Leaf, Leaves, Mushroom, November, Nuts, October, Owl, Pear, Pumpkin, Rain, Rake, Scarecrow, Season, Sleet, Squash, Squirrel, Tree, Umbrella, Wellingtons, Wind, Yellow.

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Fall Poetry and Creative Writing Prompts for 7th, 8th, and 9th Graders

This collection of engaging writing prompts is designed to help students express themselves, explore new ideas, and develop their writing skills in a fun and inspiring way.

What’s Inside?

• Poetry Prompts: A variety of prompts that encourage students to explore poetry centered around the fall theme.
• Creative Writing Prompts: Engaging and thought-provoking prompts that inspire students to write stories, personal narratives, and descriptive pieces.
• No Prep Needed: Ready-to-use prompts that can be easily integrated into your lesson plans, saving you valuable time.

Educational Benefits

• Enhances Writing Skills: Students practice and improve their writing skills through structured and creative exercises.
• Encourages Self-Expression: Prompts provide an outlet for students to express their thoughts, feelings, and ideas, fostering a sense of individuality and confidence.
• Stimulates Creativity: Diverse and imaginative prompts inspire students to think outside the box and explore new ways of writing.
• Engages and Motivates: The fall theme and variety of prompts keep students engaged and excited about writing.

Perfect for Various Settings

This versatile resource is ideal for:

• Classroom Activities: Use as part of your regular writing curriculum, in writing centers, or as warm-up exercises.
• Homework Assignments: Assign as homework to reinforce classroom learning and encourage creative writing at home.
• Supplemental Practice: Great for extra practice, early finishers, or as enrichment activities.
• Home Learning: Perfect for parents looking for engaging and educational activities to support their child's writing development.

Why Choose These Prompts?

Our Fall Poetry and Creative Writing Prompts for 7th, 8th, and 9th Graders offer a comprehensive and engaging approach to developing writing skills. The themed prompts not only make writing enjoyable but also help students connect their personal experiences with their creative expression. With a variety of prompts and no prep needed, this resource is a convenient and valuable addition to any writing program.

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This autumn-themed activity is a great way to help students reflect on their fall break or Thanksgiving break. Use this digital resource as an icebreaker the morning students return from fall break, community building game, or brain break in your middle school and high school classes. Students will stand up or sit down depending on their answer to the themed slides, such as "stand up if you ate more than one Thanksgiving meal in a day."

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• 1 directions slide & editable directions slide

Sample Slides:

• Stand up if you didn't set a single alarm.
• Stand up if you did NOT eat turkey.
• Stand up if you saw leaves falling from trees.

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Need an awesome UDL / Conferencing Activity? I have just the thing for you! These creative U.D.L. & Conferencing slides were 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 activity I reviewed what U.D.L. is and how it is used in my Art Room-and how it could be used differently in classrooms. I also reviewed how I conference with students: as a class, in a small group, and in a one-on-one situation. I used my pinch pot clay sculpture unit to showcase U.D.L. & Conferencing in my Art Room. I had students use the U.D.L. Checklist Worksheet to focus on Engagement, Representation, and Expression. I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy.

This coordinate system graphic art mystery picture would be ideal for students that are just beginning with graphing coordinates or students that need a little extra practice. It is also a great fun activity and engaging worksheets for Grade 4-11 for Back to School or any time of the year. Prep free! Differentiated! Independent!

The picture has two different graphing options to easily provide differentiation in your classroom.

- One picture to be graphed in first quadrant with positive whole numbers only only

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Fall - Autumn Taboo Speaking Game in English - Great for ESL and any English speaking classroom

Playing TABOO is a great way to get students to speak English and learn a lot of new FALL - AUTUMN vocabulary. This game is simple to modify and use with beginners and advanced students alike. 32 game cards are included There are 2 fun ways to play this fun vocabulary game and both are explained in the instructions. This game is great fun, suitable for any English speaking classroom, and 4th - 12th grade will enjoy playing it.

This Autumn Taboo speaking game includes the following:

➤ How to play classic Taboo (beginner and advanced levels)

➤ 32 Taboo game cards to print, laminate, cut out and hook together with a ring

➤ Color and black and white copies of the 32 cards are provided

➤ How to play 15 MINUTES MAX - an alternative version of the game

➤ 15 MINUTES MAX game board

➤ File for projecting one card at a time for a whole class activity

In the upper left corner there's a spot for you to punch holes in the cards so that you can then attach them with a ring for no prep use every time. Be sure to laminate if possible.

Object of the game:

One player tries to get his teammate to guess the word at the top of a card. The player must give clues, but he can't use any of the Taboo words in his description. The taboo words are written beneath the word at the top of the card. Teams score points for each word successfully guessed. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.

Beginner students should be allowed to use the TABOO words printed on the cards. This will encourage them to use new vocabulary and will help them in forming sentences to use as clues.

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These fun filler activities are great to keep students busy or for sub work. Say goodbye to boredom and hello to engaging fun with engaging activities. Keep your students entertained and challenged, turning those spare moments into valuable learning opportunities. Great to use for after testing or breaks too.

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Get ready for some spooky fun with this Halloween-themed word scramble!

What’s Inside:

• A list of Halloween-themed words for you to unscramble.
• Space on the reverse side to write 4 sentences using these words .

Instructions:

1. Unscramble the Halloween words listed on the page.
2. On the reverse side, use the unscrambled words to write 4 sentences using these words .

Perfect for classroom activities, Halloween parties, or just some eerie fun at home. Enhance your vocabulary and get into the Halloween spirit with this engaging activity!

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Students roll the dice to unravel a magical and exciting tapestry of settings, protagonists, antagonists, conflicts, and Halloween-themed elements, igniting creativity and narrative fluency! Perfect for narrative writing units, centers, daily writing, public speaking practice, Fun Friday, and more!

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What's Included

• A PowerPoint with 1 unique board
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• Vocabulary page
• Writing page

Story Elements

• Setting (examples: Halloween headquarters, town where it is always Halloween, creepy cabin with a mind of its own)

• Protagonists (examples: zombie who is obsessed with skincare, friendly ghost, paranormal investigator)

• Conflict (examples: is cursed by, is tormented by, is stalked by)

• Antagonists (examples: alien who visits earth on Halloween, clown who is afraid of clowns, creepy babysitter)

• Halloween Elements (examples: talking doll, scraping noises on a window, radioactive spider)

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If you are looking for a way to start your school year off strong with a rigorous yet engaging activity, look no further than this Back to School Digital Escape Room for ELA for use with Google Drive!

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! Now, you can facilitate our popular Back to School Escape Room at home for distance learning or in the classroom using your school's technology (thereby cutting down on paper and valuable prep time) with this meticulously-crafted resource. Each task is skills-based so that with this fun activity, learning is not sacrificed. Distance learning can certainly be a struggle for both students and teachers, so this escape room aims to provide a welcome break from the monotony while encouraging higher order thinking skills and a fun review of ELA material.

How does it work?

Your students must escape your digital classroom by solving 5 different Language Arts skills-based puzzles, discovering a hidden message, and finding clues along the way.

• Lit Match: In the first task, students must match literary terms with examples from popular books, songs, and animated movies by drawing a line connecting the term with the example. These lines will intersect with letters that once unscrambled, will form their first code word.
• Book Talk: In the second task, students must identify the part of speech used in quotes about literature by famous figures. When matched correctly, shaded boxes reveal the second code.
• Word Maze: In the third task, students must solve a word maze. Letters collected along the way form the third code.
• Figuratively Speaking: In the fourth task, students must identify the figurative language device used in animated movie songs. Designated letters in each answer form the fourth code.
• Jig Saw Quote: In the fifth and final task, students must assemble a jig saw puzzle that forms an inspirational quote to motivate them to start their year off strong. (We can't give that away here!)

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Get ready for your upcoming visit to the pumpkin patch with this field trip unit! Includes reading passages and fun activities for before and after the field trip, as well as a trip reflection activity that can be used for any field trip.

Includes:

• Parent/Teacher information sheet that gives a quick run down of all the pumpkin patch information included in the unit

Pre-Trip Activities

• Pumpkin Patch reading passage
• Show What You Know writing activity
• History of Pumpkin reading passage
• Three Sisters reading passage
• Three Sisters writing activity
• Pumpkin Baking activities - comes with instructions, plus 4 recipes to chose from (these could also be done post-trip)

Post-Trip Activities

• Field Trip Log - for homeschoolers to track the year's field trips
• Field Trip Reflection
• Home Again reading passage
• Roasted Pumpkin Seeds baking instructions
• Time to Carve reading passage and activity
• Additional resources sheet

The Pumpkin Patch Field Trip Unit is part of my Field Trip Unit Series. The series was created with homeschoolers in mind, but can be adapted to be used in a classroom as well. Field trips are a great way to supplement learning, but often homeschoolers don’t get any background information on the location of their field trip and want to enrich their experience by expanding the learning at home before and after the trip. These units help give information and fun activities before and after the field trip.

These units are available in PreK/Kinder, Elementary, and Middle & High School levels. All Pumpkin Patch Field Trip Units follow the same outline and the parent/teacher info sheet is the same for all three so that if you have children of several ages, you can seamlessly teach them together. Homeschooling parents and teachers taking multiple grades on the trip can easily combine different units. Check out all of the levels below, as well as a money saving bundle.

Pumpkin Patch Field Trip Unit - PreK Preschool and Kindergarten

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Uncover the Welsh origins of Halloween and trace its journey to becoming the modern, commercialized holiday celebrated in the U.S. today. This no-prep activity worksheet for middle and high school students delves into the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, its adaptation by Welsh, Irish, and Scottish immigrants, and how it transformed into the Halloween we know today. Through engaging reading passages, comparison activities, and critical thinking questions, students will analyze the cultural evolution of this holiday and its shift from honoring the dead to costumes, candy, and fun.

What's Included:

• Reading Passage: The Welsh Origins of Halloween and Its Journey to the U.S. (1 page)
• Critical Thinking Questions on cultural adaptation and commercialization (1 page)
• Venn Diagram for comparing ancient and modern traditions (1 page)
• Discussion Prompts on key Halloween changes (1 page)
• Solution Key for teachers (1 page)

Skills Developed Through This Activity:

• Historical Analysis: Encourages students to explore the cultural transformation of traditions.
• Critical Thinking: Fosters analytical skills by comparing ancient and modern holiday practices.
• Cultural Awareness: Helps students understand how immigration and commercialization shaped modern U.S. holidays.

How to Use the Activity in Your Classroom:

1. Begin with the reading passage to introduce the Welsh origins of Halloween and its evolution.
2. Use the Venn diagram to compare traditional Samhain with modern U.S. Halloween.
3. Assign the critical thinking questions for in-class discussions or independent reflection.
4. Engage students in discussing the cultural and commercial shifts of Halloween using the provided prompts.

Common Core Standards:

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.2: Determine central ideas of a text and analyze their development.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.1: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasoning.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Outcomes:

• ELA.9.7(F): Analyze the influence of historical and cultural contexts on literature and traditions.
• ELA.9.9(B): Analyze how cultural traditions evolve over time.