7th Grade Autumn Projects

Need a fun way to introduce Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets to upper elementary or middle school students? This great lesson lets students learn the basics of Microsoft Excel (or Google Sheets) as they create pixel art using the program. First, they'll create a quick pixel art from a given example and then they'll create their own! These are also fun lessons to use if you just need something for a one day lesson.

I've used this with 7th and 8th graders who used their free time to create even more art! I hope your students have as much fun as mine did learning Excel or Google Sheets!

Materials Required

· Computers with Internet access for each student (or pair of students)

· Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets

Files Included

· Teacher & Student Resources

· Introduction to Pixel Art Lesson (Microsoft Excel project) with tutorial

· Introduction to Pixel Art Lesson (Google Sheets project) with tutorial

· Legends and Sample Pictures for 2 Example and 7 Additional Pictures including:

o Example 1: Rake

o Example 2: Acorn

o Easy Picture 1: Smore

o Easy Picture 2: Sweater

o Picture 1: Bonfire

o Picture 2: Hot Chocolate

o Picture 3: Fall Leaf

o Picture 4: Fall Sunset

o Picture 5: Fall Trees

· Full Excel editable files for all pixel art projects (note: these can be opened in Google Sheets too)

Approximate Lesson Duration:

· 1-2 (50 minute) class period(s) (but your students will probably want to work on it longer!)

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Lesson Overview

Need a fun way to introduce Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets to upper elementary or middle school students? This seasonal bundle lets students learn the basics of Microsoft Excel (or Google Sheets) as they create pixel art using the program. First, they'll create a quick pixel art from a given example and then they'll create their own! This bundle includes the full lesson for each season: Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. These are each sold separately too, if you prefer. These are also fun lessons to use if you just need something for a one day lesson.

I've used this with 7th and 8th graders who used their free time to create even more art! I hope your students have as much fun as mine did learning Excel or Google Sheets!

Materials Required

· Computers with Internet access for each student (or pair of students)

· Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets

Files Included for Each Season

· Teacher & Student Resources

· Introduction to Pixel Art Lesson (Microsoft Excel project) with tutorial

· Introduction to Pixel Art Lesson (Google Sheets project) with tutorial

· Legends and Sample Pictures for 8 Additional Pictures

· Full Excel editable files for all pixel art projects (note: these can be opened in Google Sheets too)

Contains instructions and samples for these pixel art designs:

WINTER

Samples

1 – Winter Cap

2 – Easy Snowman

Additional Pictures

1 – Penguin

2 – Hot Chocolate

3 – Snowflakes

4 – Winter Village Scene

5 – Snowman SceneWinter

SPRING

* Daffodil

* Purple Flower

* Blue Spring Flowers

* Easter Bunny

* Easter Basket

* Pink Flower

SUMMER

Samples

1 – Watermelon

2 – Beach Umbrella

Easy

1 – Sunglasses

2 – Pail and Shovel

Additional Pictures

1 – Beach Ball

2 – Sandals

3 – Ice Cream Bar

4 – Ice Cream Cone

5 – Sandcastle

6 – Summer Sun

FALL

Example 1: Rake

Example 2: Acorn

Easy Picture 1: Smore

Easy Picture 2: Sweater

Picture 1: Bonfire

Picture 2: Hot Chocolate

Picture 3: Fall Leaf

Picture 4: Fall Sunset

Picture 5: Fall Trees

Approximate Lesson Duration:

· 1-2 (50 minute) class period(s) for each season (but your students will probably want to work on it longer!)

Each season is available separately at:

Winter: https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Winter-Pixel-Art-in-Microsoft-Excel-or-Google-Sheets-Distance-Learning-2689617

Spring: https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Spring-Pixel-Art-in-Microsoft-Excel-or-Google-Sheets-Distance-Learning-2283503

Summer: https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Summer-Pixel-Art-in-Microsoft-Excel-or-Google-Sheets-Distance-Learning-2312188

Fall: https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Fall-Pixel-Art-in-MS-Excel-or-Google-Sheets-11238769

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This creative Art Room Gaming Badges Activity 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. *NOTE: this is a yearly event; it will take most of a full school year for any student to complete all 30 gaming badges…and that’s a good thing! *Students may try for any badge, in any order, however, students will want to start working on gaining easy gaming badges first, before trying to get the harder ones done. *Once students accomplish the criteria for a certain badge, either the teacher or the student may take colored pencils (only) to color the accomplished badge, so it looks similar to the completed version. *Move on to completing another great gaming badge. Good Luck! I hope you and your kiddos love this! Enjoy.

Your middle schoolers are bored and tired of the same coloring sheets, crosswords, and pumpkin cutouts they've seriously been doing for years. Do them a favor and switch up your Halloween routine with this fun project-based Halloween unit which features cross-curricular content in math and language arts.

In this unit, you (or your sub!) can easily lead an independent, self-guided project for your middle-school students in grades 4 through 8. As with all of my products, you'll never see frilly hard-to-read fonts or babyish images. My products are intended for your students who think they're adults, but aren't quite there! They're loaded with examples and easy-to-understand language.

In this 13-page resource, you'll find the following activities, templates, prompts, examples and tasks that will keep them busy for days!

• "Une maison hantée thématique" - An activity that will get your students brainstorming a theme for their haunted house and a final reflexive activity on making their choice.

• "Donnez des frissons!" - An activity intended to have students stick to their "theme" and give details about the different rooms or areas within their haunted house. This activity should bring to life their design and concept.

• "Le plan d'étage" - A guided example of a building plan including a "légende" with typically used symbols in engineering to construct their one- (or multiple-) storey haunted house on paper.

• Also included is a large-format example to display for your students who need the extra visual supports.

• Also included is a blank sheet for students to draw their haunted house's building plan.

• "Mesures de ma maison hantée" - An activity to push your students' mathematical brains. These activities have step-by-step examples on changing the scale of their "paper" haunted houses to a realistic measurement, as well as calculating the perimeter and area of each of the areas within the house! Formulas are given and explained if you haven't quite got here, yet! This step will include multiplying decimal numbers.

• "Des paragraphes terrifiants!" - This writing activity will have your students thinking about audience and the purpose of writing. Miniature graphic organizers are provided for your students to create descriptive, persuasive and narrative paragraphs as well as a poster project to "sell" their haunted house!

• "Boutique Bouh!" - A series of math activities to boost your students' abilities to estimate and add decimal numbers including:

• Boutique Bouh!'s store prices to be used in 2 other activities:

• Story problems/written problems.

• Building a mathematically specific treat bag!

• "La liste de courses" - An activity that will have your students sticking to a budget when choosing the items they'll need to create the haunted house of their dreams! This activity includes a catalogue of items and prices at a local hardware store, and your students will have to calculate based on quantity, add and multiply decimal numbers, and finalize their total bill which must not surpass 1000$.

• "Potions des monstres" - An activity on ordering decimal numbers from smallest to greatest.

If you're looking for basic Halloween themed worksheets, I've got those here.

If you're looking for a more research-based approach to the traditions and culture surrounding this Holiday, I've also got those here.

In this Integer Operation Fall themed craft, students are going to practice all 4 integer operations. They will get 3 trees and 9 - 10 leaves with integer problems on them. They will get an addition tree, subtraction tree and multiplication/division tree. This would make such a cute bulletin board! You will need coloring utensils & scissors - minimal supplies!

Directions:

1. Solve the problems on the leaves

2. Write the answers on the line

3. Color the leaves and cut them out

4. Find the answer on the tree and paste the leaf on the tree

5. Create your own problems in the empty images

6. Explain in words how to add, subtract or multiply/divide integers

What you get:

• 1 Addition Tree
• 1 Subtraction Tree
• 1 Multiplication/Division Tree
• 3 pages of leaves with 28 total problems