Halloween STEM Projects for Elementary Students That Start With a Story | Episode 316

Podcast: One Tired Teacher With Trina Deboree · Trina Deboree

Opublikowano: 2026-10-12

𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐌 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐟. Turn a favorite read aloud into an open-ended STEM challenge that gets kids creating, building, problem-solving, and thinking critically. In this episode of One Tired Teacher with Trina Deboree, I'm sharing 𝟏𝟎 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦 that naturally lend themselves to hands-on STEM projects—without turning every activity into a complicated craft or giving students a solution to copy. We'll look at Halloween favorites including I Need My Monster, Skeleton for Dinner, Turkey Trick or Treat, The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything, Even Monsters Need Haircuts, and more. Then I'll show you exactly how I turn Somethin' Pumpkin into an open-ended Halloween STEM project using candy pumpkins and simple classroom materials. Instead of telling children what to build, we start with the story, find a problem, and ask: What could YOU create? Maybe a pumpkin becomes an apartment complex for tiny critters. Maybe it's transformed into a cart for transporting materials. Maybe your students invent something you never would have imagined. That's ex...