Agricultural WebQuest

Agricultural WebQuest Series

Missouri Farm Bureau and

Missouri State University

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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/units/pumpkins.htm

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

Evaluation

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

Competency	10 pts.	8 pts.	6 pts.	0 pts.
Pumpkin life cycle book	Draws and describes all the life cycle stages	Draws and describes most of the life cycle stages	Draws and describes a few of the life cycle stages	No attempt
Pumpkin chart and graph	Graph has no errors	Graph has one-two errors	Graph has three-four errors	Graph has five or more errors

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 Barbara Irwin and maintained by Missouri Farm Bureau.

Please address questions to Diane Olson at Missouri Farm Bureau or Dr. Lyndon Irwin at Missouri State University.

Last revised on September 10, 2006