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 Pumpkins!
- How
A Pumpkin Grows
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Students will enjoy coloring, cutting, and pasting these cards
into a mini-book, sequencing how a pumpkin grows and its various
stages of development.
- Online
Pumpkin Patch -Students can sort these interactive pumpkins
by size or color, counting how many of each there are and seeing
if they can count the total as well. Drag and drop the pumpkins
in the pumpkin patch, and give directions to drop the big green
pumpkin behind the small orange pumpkin, for instance.
- Halloween
And Pumpkins -Numerous creative activities explore the themes
of both Halloween and pumpkins in these thematic suggestions.
Make some pumpkin 3-D art or pumpkin playdough, or how about tissue
paper pumpkins? Songs and poems are also included.
- Pick
a Pumpkin Activity!
- Celebrate pumpkins with these across-the-curriculum activities.
- Pumpkin
Globes - Here's a unique
lesson on latitude and longitude, where students will use the
lines of a pumpkin to distinguish hemisphere and mark the longitudes.
They will also be painting on the continents and oceans, and displaying
their finished products in the classroom. Also think about creating
your own school pumpkin patch for all classes to enjoy and observe
the results of this creative lesson plan.
- Pumpkin
Seed Mosaics - You can create a wide variety of mosaics with
pumpkin seeds, particularly if you paint different batches in
different colors. Find instructions for a mosaic here.
- Estimating
With Pumpkin Seeds - This is a hands-on, or rather arms-in,
student exercise with pumpkins, so be sure to have plenty of newspaper
and paper towels handy. Student teams will take turns estimating
how many seed might be in a pumpkin, then dig in and find out
for sure. Wash and dry those pumpkin seeds to also practice counting
by 2's, 5's, etc.
- Investigating
A Pumpkin -A list of several excellent questions guides students
through careful investigation of their pumpkins, perfect for beginning
scientific observation skills. Several hands-on student activities
are also included.
- Pump
Up the Curriculum With Pumpkins!
- Jump into pumpkin facts and pumpkin lore. Try pumpkin science,
pumpkin math, pumpkin writing ...
- Pumpkin
Potpourri - ideas for K-2
- Pumpkins
at EnchantedLearning.com
- Pumpkin
Similies - shape book on similies
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