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Pumpkin Life Cycle
From seed to jack-o-lantern, young scholars walk step-by-step through the life cycle of pumpkins with this fun art and science activity. After first participating in a shared reading of the children's book Pumpkin, Pumpkin children color...
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Life Cycle of the Plant - The Pumpkin
First graders access prior knowledge about pumpkins and read the story Pumpkin, Pumpkin. They will sequence the life cycle of the pumpkin through the use of picture cards and then sing a song about the life cycle of the pumpkin and plant...
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Observing the Pumpkin Cycle
Students observe and listen to nonfiction books about the life cycle of pumpkins. They practice early reading skills in a shared reading related to pumpkins. They observe the life cycle of a pumpkin including growth and decay.
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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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Pumpkins-Life Cycle of a Plant
In this instructional activity, Pumpkins-Life Cycle of a Plant, students study the life cycle of a pumpkin. Students will analyze the pumpkin and how it goes from seed to pumpkin over a three days of activities. Students sing a song...
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Museums in the Classroom Pumpkin Project
Students identify the 5 stages in the life cycle of a pumpkin. They create a model showing the correct order of pumpkin life stages. They explain a pumpkin's life cycle to a partner, using their model.
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Life Cycle of a Frog
Students work together to explain and illustrate the life cycle of a frog.
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Pumpkin Time
In these two lessons, science learners participate in various activities involving pumpkins. They investigate and research the life cycle of a pumpkin. They observe pumpkin growth and decomposition. Finally, they estimate and measure...
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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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Pumpkin, Pumpkin
First graders understand that pumpkins grow slowly over several months. In this pumpkin instructional activity, 1st graders listen to the book Pumpkin, Pumpkin and recall the sequence of the pumpkin life cycle. Students create pumpkin...
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Pumpkin Patch
Students create a pumpkin art project that outlines the life cycle of a pumpkin in order to learn the growth process of this particular vegetable. In this pumpkin art lesson plan, students first review the life cycle of a pumpkin as a...
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Peeking At Pumpkins
Students listen to a read aloud about the life cycle of the pumpkin and discuss the process. They complete a life cycle booklet.
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Plant Life Cycle of Pumpkins
Students identify the life cycle of different plants. They complete a life cycle wheel for pumpkins. They draw a picture to go along with each description. They put the life cycle into the correct sequence to complete the lesson.
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Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
In this life cycle of a pumpkin worksheet, students color pictures of the life cycle stages, cut out and tape onto a string in the correct order. Page has a link to additional activities and instructions.
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Patty's Pumpkin Patch
Learners explore Halloween by examining pumpkins in class. For this pumpkin observation lesson, students discuss the method in which pumpkins are grown and the time line it takes a pumpkin to grow from a seed. Learners read a pumpkin...
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Planting Pumpkins
Students plant pumpkins. In this agriculture lesson, students use pumpkin seeds, mulch, and shovels to plant seeds from a pumpkin. Students observe the changes during each season.
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Pumpkin Pumpkin Activity Card
In this reading worksheet, students respond to the book Pumpkin Pumpkin by completing an activity at home with parents. Students cut apart 9 pictures that show the life cycle of a pumpkin and put them in sequential order.
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Halloween Literature Unit: Pumpkin Patch Unit Project
Students simulate an agriculture project. In this sequencing lesson plan, 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...
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In a Giants Garden
Learners explore the effect of the earths rotation and its relationship to the suns position and the effect that the longer and shorter amount of daylight has on a pumpkin plant which they have planted.
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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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Contrasting Landscapes - UBC Farm Field Trip
Students visit the UBC Farm. In this lesson on various landscapes, students spend a day at the University of British Columbia exploring the farm and trail adjoining the campus. This lesson could be modified for use in any region that has...
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Books for Teaching About Colors
Young scholars explore colors through books. In this lesson plan students read books about colors. The lesson plan is divided by color and within each color there is a list of books about that color. Moreover each color section also...
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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...