Halloween Podcasts and Activities for Elementary Students
Bring WOW to the spooky season with our bewitching podcasts, activities, resources, and more! Whether you’re looking for a brain break or a lesson plan, we’ve got some fang-tastic stuff for you to check out!
Not a teacher? Click here to see Halloween activities for the kids in your life!
Get spooky all school-week long with WeWow!
WeWow is a variety show that’ll surely knock your students’ socks off! Each day, listen to a spooky episode of Wow in the World and tinker with its corresponding activity!
Join Mindy and Guy Raz as they head to ScreamCon to unpack the six different types of human screams, and learn why not all screams are so bad! Then, have your students learn more about sound with our Screaming Balloon experiment!
Mindy is up on her roof dressed as a… 9 legged spider?! Learn what she has spinning up her sleeves as Mindy, Guy Raz, and the gang discover the WOWs of spiderwebs. Your students can then make their own spiders out of egg cartons!
Why is Guy Raz wearing a bright orange bat costume?! It’s time to meet the newly discovered species, MYOTIS NIMBAENSIS! Then, play a round of Echolocation Hide & Seek!
What starts out as a paranormal phenomenon slowly turns into a scientific sensation as Guy and Mindy learn all about the ghoulish ghost crab and their growling stomachs! Then, try our Dancing Rice experiment!
Join, Mindy, Guy Raz, and the whole WOW crew on a scary, fun adventure into your imagination, and learn WHY in the world scientists think people who experience aphantasia, or mind blindness, might not get as scared as those who don’t experience it! Then, try mind-mapping!

TinkerClass
Check out all of our Halloween-themed podcasts for kids on TinkerClass, our FREE NGSS-aligned project-based learning program. Get your students listening, laughing and learning while they build 21st-century skills like critical thinking, collaboration and creative innovation! Use TinkerClass to bring the WOW to YOUR classroom!
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Brain Breaks
Kahoot!
From short trivia games to quizzes based on full-length podcast episodes, we’ve got you covered! Check out our Kahoot! page for more!

Halloween Trivia
Turn your class into a scientific game show where YOU are the host! Your students will be presented with three facts in each round, but only ONE fact will be true! Their goal is to choose the one true, scientific “WOW” from the made-up “whats”! Let’s play Two Whats?! And A Wow!

Hallo-Wow!
Listen to this spooky episode of WeWow, a variety show featuring new scientific research! Then, test your student’s listening comprehension with questions based on the episode!

Fall Trivia
Turn your class into a scientific game show where YOU are the host! Your students will be presented with three facts in each round, but only ONE fact will be true! Their goal is to choose the one true, scientific “WOW” from the made-up “whats”! Let’s play Two Whats?! And A Wow!
WowTube
Visit our Youtube Channel for spooky full-length podcast episodes, music videos, and more!
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