11th Grade Holiday Resources

April Fools Day French digital escape game in French - reading, vocab, listening

Created by
Frenchified

This French April Fool's Day digital escape game will have your students using their reading and listening comprehension skills to learn about the holiday, its history, and how it is celebrated.The instructions are in English, while the activities are in French. It is suitable for level 2 and higher

9th - 12th French

Also included in: French Digital Escape Games Bundle | 10 Holiday Activities

French vocabulary activity practice games Easter le Pâques

Created by
Frenchified

This set of six French vocabulary practice games will allow your students to practice the vocabulary for Easter. There are 6 different activities, and several of them will regenerate new activities over and over - so your students can play as many times as they like!The games are no-prep and do not

9th - 12th French

Also included in: French vocabulary practice games huge bundle NO PREP self-grading activities

French vocabulary activity practice games Thanksgiving Action de Grâce

Created by
Frenchified

This set of six French vocabulary practice games will allow your students to practice the vocabulary for Thanksgiving. There are 6 different activities, and several of them will regenerate new activities over and over - so your students can play as many times as they like!The games are no-prep and

9th - 12th French

Also included in: French vocabulary practice games huge bundle NO PREP self-grading activities

French vocabulary activity practice games Christmas le Noël

Created by
Frenchified

This set of six French vocabulary practice games will allow your students to practice the vocabulary for Christmas. There are 6 different activities, and several of them will regenerate new activities over and over - so your students can play as many times as they like!The games are no-prep and do n

9th - 12th French

Also included in: French vocabulary practice games huge bundle NO PREP self-grading activities

French vocabulary activity practice games Halloween la Toussaint

Created by
Frenchified

This set of six French vocabulary practice games will allow your students to practice the vocabulary for Halloween/La Toussaint. There are 6 different activities, and several of them will regenerate new activities over and over - so your students can play as many times as they like!The games are no-

9th - 12th French

Also included in: French vocabulary practice games huge bundle NO PREP self-grading activities

Juneteenth digital escape game for high school US history Emancipation Day

Created by
Frenchified

Make learning about the history of the Juneteenth holiday interesting with this no-prep digital escape game.  The game includes access to a website where your students will hunt for the codes to unlock a locked door and continue with the role as a time-traveling observer, sent to the past to learn f

9th - 12th U.S. History

Edgar Allan Poe Biography & Background | PowerPoint, Guided Notes, Themes & Work

Created by
Plotting Something

Introduce Edgar Allan Poe with a concise biography and background lesson that gives students the literary context they need before reading his stories and poems. Rather than turning Poe’s life into a list of sensational facts, this lesson connects his biography to the themes, techniques, and literar

8th - 12th Literature, Poetry, Reading

Also included in: Edgar Allan Poe Unit Bundle | Background, The Raven & House of Usher

Would You Survive Gothic Literature? | Halloween ELA Activity | Gothic Game

Created by
Plotting Something

Turn Halloween into a Gothic survival game where every choice changes what students know - and how much the house has gotten inside their heads.Would You Survive Gothic Literature? is a one-class-period Halloween ELA activity for grades 9-12. Students work in teams as one fictional heir trapped insi

9th - 12th Literature, Other (ELA)

Also included in: Halloween ELA Activities Bundle | 4 Gothic Games, Mysteries & Simulations

Literary Séance | Halloween ELA Activity | Character Inference & Writing Game

Created by
Plotting Something

Ten voices have arrived. None will tell your students its name.Literary Séance is a one-period Halloween ELA mystery that asks students to identify classic literary characters from a sequence of staged “manifestations” — then write one final message in character and challenge classmates to identify

9th - 12th Creative Writing, Literature

Also included in: Halloween ELA Activities Bundle | 4 Gothic Games, Mysteries & Simulations

The Monkey's Paw Lesson | Gothic Suspense, Foreshadowing, Irony & Ambiguity

Created by
Plotting Something

KeKeep “The Monkey’s Paw” tense instead of turning it into a worksheet marathon. This two-day secondary ELA lesson uses a few deliberate reading stops, then asks students to go back and examine how W. W. Jacobs builds suspense through warning, irony, pacing, Gothic atmosphere, and ambiguity.“The Mon

8th - 12th Close Reading, Literature, Short Stories

Spooky Substances Lab Station Activity - Physical vs Chemical Changes Halloween

Created by
TWFScience

Bring Halloween fun into your chemistry or physical science class with this Spooky Substances Lab! Students mix eerie “Swamp Sludge” and “Graveyard Fog” to observe real scientific changes—then decide which are physical and which are chemical.This station lab activity package is designed to enhance s

6th - 11th Science, Biology, General Science

NGSS MS-PS1-2, MS-PS1-4, HS-PS1-4+1

Also included in: Halloween Science Activities & Investigations | Labs, Stations, STEM, Readings

Halloween Candy Combustion Calorimetry STEM Lab Food Energy & Chemical Reactions

Created by
TWFScience

Midnight approaches in Hallowbrook, and the town’s Lantern of Wards is flickering. To keep prankster spirits from short-circuiting Halloween, we must fuel the lantern with treats that have enough Treat Heat—the real, measurable energy hidden inside candy. You are the Order of the Calori-mancers. You

9th - 12th Basic Principles, Chemistry, Physical Science

NGSS HS-PS3-1, HS-PS3-4

Also included in: Halloween Science Activities & Investigations | Labs, Stations, STEM, Readings

Candy Chemistry Combustion Calorimetry STEM Lab Food Energy & Chemical Reactions

Created by
TWFScience

Turn everyday candy into a rigorous calorimetry and energy conservation investigation. Students burn a small candy sample under a soda-can calorimeter, measure the water’s temperature change, calculate q = m·c·ΔT, and estimate energy per gram (J/g and kcal/g)—then deduce from evidence which candy ha

9th - 12th Basic Principles, Chemistry, Physical Science

NGSS HS-PS3-1, HS-PS3-4

Also included in: Valentine's Day Science Activities | STEM, Project, Readings | High School

Halloween Science Activities & Investigations | Labs, Stations, STEM, Readings

Created by
TWFScience

Make October downright electric with hands-on, low-prep Halloween science. This Growing Bundle includes STEM activities, stations, readings, and more-all with a festive twist. Buy once and get every future addition free via bundle updates (price increases as new activities are added).What Students D

6th - 11th Chemistry, Engineering, Physical Science

Monster Genetics Challenge – Punnett Squares & Heredity Halloween STEM Lab

Created by
TWFScience

Under the eerie glow of a full moon, strange creatures are stirring in the lab—each one a mix of mysterious genes and spooky surprises! It’s up to your students to uncover the secrets of monster heredity by predicting, combining, and sketching their own genetically engineered beasts.In this interact

9th - 12th Basic Principles, Biology

Also included in: Genetics, Heredity, DNA, and Traits - 5E Lesson Bundle | Genotype and Phenotype

Halloween Creatures Dichotomous Key – A Spooky Classification Challenge

Created by
TWFScience

The classroom lights flicker. A chill skims across the lab tables as ten mysterious creatures shuffle, flap, and ooze into view. Your students have one tool to survive the night: a dichotomous key. With each YES/NO choice, they narrow the suspects—bat or crow, wisp or witch’s familiar—until every mo

6th - 11th Basic Principles, Biology

Also included in: Halloween Science Activities & Investigations | Labs, Stations, STEM, Readings

Marble Ramp: Height vs Average Speed STEM Investigation | Scientific Method

Created by
TWFScience

Give students a fast, hands-on motion investigation: set up a simple marble ramp, change only the ramp height, and measure how height affects average speed. With clear test rules and simple materials, students plan a fair test, collect multiple times for each height, calculate average speed, and cre

6th - 11th Basic Principles, Physical Science, Physics

NGSS MS-PS2-2, MS-ETS1-1, MS-ETS1-2+1

Also included in: STEM Investigations Growing Bundle — Scientific Method, Design, Data & CER

Clean Water Filtration STEM Investigation | Scientific Method 6th, 7th, 8th

Created by
TWFScience

Give students a fast, hands-on engineering investigation: build a low-cost water filter, change only one design choice at a time (layer order, thickness, sealing, or adding charcoal), and measure which design makes the clearest water the fastest—all while staying under a classroom budget cap. With t

6th - 11th Basic Principles, Physical Science, Physics

NGSS MS-PS2-2, MS-ETS1-1, MS-ETS1-2+1

Also included in: STEM Investigations Growing Bundle — Scientific Method, Design, Data & CER

Beetle Genetics STEM Investigation | Scientific Method | 6th, 7th, 8th

Created by
TWFScience

Give students a fast, hands-on genetics investigation: simulate beetle heredity, change only the parent genotypes, and use Punnett squares to predict and compare offspring outcomes. With print-and-cut genotype cards and clear scaffolds, students run multiple monohybrid crosses, extend to one dihybri

6th - 11th Basic Principles, Physical Science, Physics

NGSS MS-PS2-2, MS-ETS1-1, MS-ETS1-2+1

Also included in: STEM Investigations Growing Bundle — Scientific Method, Design, Data & CER

Adaptations by Design - Extreme Environments | STEM Investigation 6th, 7th, 8th

Created by
TWFScience

Students will design a biologically plausible organism, choose one extreme environment, and justify how its adaptations solve real environmental pressures. With a trait bank, word bank, a structured CER, and a Survival Index that rolls into a class bar graph, students connect structure → function →

6th - 11th Basic Principles, Physical Science, Physics

NGSS MS-PS2-2, MS-ETS1-1, MS-ETS1-2+1

Also included in: STEM Investigations Growing Bundle — Scientific Method, Design, Data & CER

Newton 1st Law of Motion STEM Investigation | Penny and Index Card Inertia Test

Created by
TWFScience

Students will investigate Newton’s First Law of Motion by testing how different masses behave when the support beneath them is removed rapidly. Using an index card, a coin, and a cup, students flick the card to observe whether objects of varying mass drop straight into the cup or move with the card.

6th - 11th Basic Principles, Physical Science, Physics

NGSS MS-PS2-1, MS-PS2-2, MS-ETS1-1+2

Also included in: Newton's Three Laws of Motion STEM Investigations Bundle — Scientific Method

Newton's Second Law of Motion STEM Investigation | Balloon Rocket, 2nd Law

Created by
TWFScience

Students will investigate Newton’s 2nd Law of Motion by testing how changing the mass carried by a balloon rocket affects its acceleration. Using a taut string track, a straw, a balloon, and removable mass clips, students run repeated launches to measure travel time and calculate average speed. Thro

6th - 11th Basic Principles, Physical Science, Physics

NGSS MS-PS2-1, MS-PS2-2, MS-ETS1-1+2

Also included in: Artemis Missions, Moon Bases, and Future Space Colonization Unit Bundle

Newton's Third Law of Motion STEM Investigation | Thrust vs Nozzle Size, 3rd Law

Created by
TWFScience

Students will investigate Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion by testing how changing the nozzle opening of a water-powered bottle jet affects the distance it travels. Using a plastic bottle, interchangeable bottle-cap nozzles with different hole diameters, and a simple launch cradle, students observe how th

6th - 11th Basic Principles, Physical Science, Physics

NGSS MS-PS2-1, MS-PS2-2, MS-ETS1-1+2

Also included in: Newton's Three Laws of Motion STEM Investigations Bundle — Scientific Method

Mythical Creature Dichotomous Key Activity

Created by
TWFScience

The classroom hum fades into a hush. A warm breeze rustles imaginary leaves as ten fantastical creatures drift, stomp, slither, and shimmer into view. Your students have one tool to navigate this enchanted encounter: a dichotomous key. With each YES/NO choice, they rule out the possibilities—drake o

6th - 11th Basic Principles, Biology