Curated OER
Match the Pumpkin Faces
In this Halloween worksheet, students examine 5 Jack O'Lantern pictures with different facial expressions. Students cut out 5 pumpkin pieces with the names of emotions such as surprised, scared, happy and sad. Students match the face...
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Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Pumpkins
Students identify and interpret the lifecycle and parts of the pumpkin. Students utitlize interactive ways to discover this process. Students create a big book of their own by researching further information about pumpkins and what...
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Fall is All Around Us
Students 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...
Curated OER
Pumpkin Dot to Dot
In this connect the dots activity, students connect the dots and draw a line using the numbers 1-14 to outline the picture of a pumpkin.
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Pumpkin Addition
In this addition worksheet, 1st graders add the single digit addition problems and color the pumpkins with the sum less than 10. Students solve 8 problems.
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Orange Pumpkin
In this language arts worksheet, students learn the color word "orange" by tracing the dotted example once. Students then color the pumpkin picture.
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Halloween Patterns
In this mathematics worksheet, students cut out the four pictures at the bottom of the sheet. Then they continue each pattern with one of the pictures cut out.
Curated OER
Pumpkin Math
Students examine a pumpkin and make several estimations based on the number of lines around it, its circumference and the number of seeds it has.
Language Guide
Language Guide: Los Vegetales
Colorful pictures and audio files model correct Spanish pronunciation for vegetables. Pop-ups of the correct spelling for each new vocabulary word will appear as you move the mouse over the picture.
Language Guide
Language Guide: Los Vegetales
Colorful pictures and audio files model correct Spanish pronunciation for vegetables. Pop-ups of the correct spelling for each new vocabulary word will appear as you move the mouse over the picture.
Other
Brightly Beaming Resources: From Seed to Pumpkin
Five day lesson plan uses a variety of resources to cover the book, From Seed to Pumpkin, by Wendy Pfeffer.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: Halloween
This one-stanza poem gives a haunting message about the carving of a pumpkin during the season of Halloween.
Other
Pumpkin Patch: A Collection of Pumpkin Poetry
An awesome collection of student-generated poetry about pumpkins. The site is fully illustrated with student work.
US Department of Agriculture
Choose My Plate: All About the Vegetable Group
Learn about the vegetable group, including what foods are vegetables and how much of each type counts as a serving. Three broccoli spears counts as a cup of vegetables, as do one large ear of corn, and two large stalks of celery. What...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Food for Thought: Vegetable Group
Here, you can read up on the nutritional values of vegetables and on various ways to prepare vegetables to "Help your child enjoy," eating them. Also, get children eager to eat their vegetables by involving them in the kitchen and food...
Precision Nutrition
Encyclopedia of Food: Pumpkin
Commonly found in the United States and Canada, the pumpkin offers nutritional value. Find out the varieties and ways to prepare the fall harvested squash.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Pumpkin Predictions
[Free Registration/Login Required] This activity is ideal to use around Halloween to measure/explore your classroom pumpkin and finally to carve it into a Jack-o-Lantern.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Pumpkins
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains pictures of pumpkins throughout growth, a pumpkin lifecycle diagram, and United Streaming video on the pumpkin.
Teachers.net
Teachers.net: Pumpkin Potpourri (Lesson Plan)
Some cute ideas on integrating a pumpkin theme into many subject areas, based on reading "Pumpkin, Pumpkin," by Jeannie Titherington. Activities include making a pumpkin story wheel, creating a mural, and making a paper pumpkin patch.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pumpkin on Vine
Line drawing of a pumpkin on a vine.
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Smart Exchange: Large Image Preview: Jack O' Lantern
Cartoon illustration of pumpkin carved for Halloween.