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Pumpkin Seed Multiplication
Learners practice multiplication facts. In this multiplication lesson plan, students participate in a pumpkin seed multiplication game where they match up addition sentences and multiplication facts. Game board and number sentences are...
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Discussing How Plants Grow
Study how plants grow with your English language learners with a cross-curricular lesson revolving around pumpkins. These activities provide opportunities to practice new scientific vocabulary while practicing skills such as estimating...
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Halloween Literature Unit: Pumpkin Patch Unit Project
Students simulate an agriculture project. In this sequencing lesson, students observe their classroom pumpkin patch, make journal entries, and predict how the pumpkins will grow. They discuss as a class how to keep their pumpkins safe...
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Making Predictions
First graders write with his or her pencil on a worksheet created by the teacher his or her prediction of whether each part of a pumpkin will sink or float. They drop each of five objects in the water one at a time allowing enough time...
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Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Pumpkins
Pupils identify and interpret the lifecycle and parts of the pumpkin. Students utitlize interactive ways to discover this process. Pupils create a big book of their own by researching further information about pumpkins and what makes a...
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Special Seeds
Students create their own garden. In this gardening lesson, students get a packet of seeds and plant them in a special part of the garden. They are responsible for watering, weeding, and caring for their plants.
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What's Inside a Pumpkin
Students make two pumpkins. In this art lesson, students glue yarn and pumpkin seeds on one of the pumpkins and attach the other pumpkin on top of the pumpkin with the seeds with a brad so as to see what is inside a pumpkin.
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What's Inside a Pumpkin?
Young scholars explore the properties of a pumpkin. In this What's Inside a Pumpkin lesson plan, students use a real pumpkin to investigate pumpkin facts, sing a song "Five Little Pumpkins", paint pumpkin patch artwork, participate in a...
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Going on a Seed Safari
Students describe biology by identifying different plants in class. In this seed lesson, students discuss the process of how a plant grows from seed to leaves. Students attend a field trip to their garden or another park and collect a...
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The Pumpkin: An Outstanding Teaching Tool
Capitalize on the availability of this seasonal squash by designing a lesson for a variety of disciplines.
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Growing Seeds Indoors: What is the difference?
In this dicot and monocot seeds worksheet, students read the difference between the two types of seeds and draw a picture, make a poster, and use the internet to find more research on them. Students complete 3 tasks.
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Pumpkin Math
Pupils examine a pumpkin and make several estimations based on the number of lines around it, its circumference and the number of seeds it has.
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Pumpkin, Pumpkin
First graders understand that pumpkins grow slowly over several months. In this pumpkin lesson plan, 1st graders listen to the book Pumpkin, Pumpkin and recall the sequence of the pumpkin life cycle. Students create pumpkin artwork...
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Pumpkin Problems
In this math instructional activity, students solve 4 story problems which pertain to Halloween. Students will use all 4 math operations to solve these problems. Two problems are to be solved and two are multiple choice in which students...
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Spring Potted Plants
Students identify and interpret plant growth as well as gain graphing skills and other important knowledge related to potting plants. They take a regular milk jug and cut off the top, leaving the handle and the rest intact. Then,...
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Fall is All Around Us
Learners develop and create a production company and produce a fall event that demonstrates what they have learned in various subject areas. STudents create stories, complete a venn diagram comparing fall and summer, graph and measure...
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Seed Sort
Students form a variety of categories for seed mixes (wild bird seed or 15 bean soup) and create graphs to display their categories.
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Garden Starters
Students grow their own gardens. In this planting lesson, students use egg cartons to start their own gardens by planting and caring for seeds. A game, a song, a craft, and a recipe are all included with the lesson to complement the theme.
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What About Cantaloupes?
Second graders investigate the physical properties of cantaloupe using their senses. In this life science lesson plan, 2nd graders estimate the weight of their sample. They get it's actual weight and compare it with their estimate.
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Plant Life Cycles
Follow the life cycle of a dandelion with a lab sheet for kindergartners. They learn about the order of events in a dandelion's life, then put the stages of life in order. Can they describe the life cycle of a pumpkin? For extra...
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How to Make a Halloween Jack-o-Lantern
In this Halloween worksheet, 3rd graders study the way to make a jack-o-lantern. Students respond to 10 multiple choice questions about the process involved and the chronological order of creating the perfect Halloween face.
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Zigzag Seeds
Students observe the effects of gravity on seeds. Students place seeds in various orientations and record their growth to determine how gravity affects the seeds' growth.
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The Carving of Old Jack
In this comprehension worksheet, 3rd graders read directions on how to carve a pumpkin. Students answer questions related to sequencing, definitions, and understanding of the story to demonstrate comprehension.