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Teacher Information:

I hope you and your students enjoy the activities that are presented on this page. There are so many activities available to do with pumpkins! Before your class explores the Pumpkin WebQuest page, they need to be familiar with a bar graph and how to create a bar graph. It would also be beneficial to read one of the books listed below as an introduction to the unit. Print off the Pumpkin template and make as many copies as you need for the Life Cycle booklets.

Additional Resources and Activities:

Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden by George Levenson. Tricycle Press, 2002.

Pumpkin Pumpkin by Jeanne Titherington. Greenwillow Books, 1986.

http://www.sadako.com/pumpkin/activities.html

http://www.pumpkinnook.com/facts/anatomy.htm

http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/themes/pumpkins.html

http://www.moorefarms.com/downloads/MooreFarmsTEKSLessonPlans.pdf

Evaluation

Rubric for Pumpkin Life Cycle Book and Pumpkin Chart and Graph Projects

National Education Standards

Math

• Understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems
• Understand meanings of operations and how they relate to one another
• Compute fluently and make reasonable estimates

Science Standards

• Understands the life cycles of organisms

Technology Standards

• Abilities of technological design

Language Arts

• Students use spoken, written, and visual language to accomplish their own purposes
   

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This page was developed by Traci Cliffman, reviewed by Lyndon and the late Barbara Irwin and maintained by Missouri Farm Bureau.

Please address questions to Diane Olson at Missouri Farm Bureau.