Download This Full Lesson: We’re into Pumpkins
Lesson Description: Through hands-on, interdisciplinary activities, students learn about pumpkins as fruits and as food sources.
Objectives
The student will:
- describe pumpkins, including their parts, colors, sizes, and shapes;
- learn new wordsfor describing pumpkins, pumpkin plant parts, and uses of pumpkins;
- explore uses of pumpkins in the past and present; and
- predict, measure or count, record, and draw conclusions about characteristics of pumpkins.
Estimated Teaching Time
- Two to three hours. (Can be taught in two or three sessions.)
Alignments
Kindergarten-2 Writing: Text Types & Purposes – 2,
Speaking Listening: Presentation of Knowledge & Ideas – 4
Kindergarten Counting & Cardinality – K.CC.4, K.CC.6
Measurement & Data – K.MD.2
Grade 2 Measurement & Data – 2.MD.10
Grades 3-5 Writing: Text Types & Purposes – 2
Writing: Production & Distribution of Writing – 4
Speaking Listening: Presentation of Knowledge & Ideas – 4
Grade 3 Measurement & Data – 3.MD.2,
Grade 6 Writing: Text Types & Purposes – 2a, 2b Ratios & Proportional Relationships – 6.RP.1
Writing: Production & Distribution of Writing – 4