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Predicting Pumpkins
If you want more pumpkin seeds, you should get a bigger pumpkin—right? Young harvesters use estimation skills to make a hypothesis about how many seeds they will find in a pumpkin before examining the real number inside.
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BIG Pumpkins!
How big is the biggest pumpkin you've ever seen? Did it weigh over a ton—literally? Young learners view pictures of some record-breaking pumpkins, including some that weighed over 1,300 pounds, before answering five word problems about...
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Pumpkin Predictions
It's time for Halloween and math! Perfect for Fall, this simple worksheet provides a grid for young mathematicians to record their predictions about a pumpkin's height, stem length, diameter, circumference, and weight. After learners...
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The Is No Such Thing as a Perfect Pumpkin
Students explore using descriptive words to describe physical appearance. In this appearance lesson, students look at pumpkins and discuss how there is not a perfect pumpkin. Students also hypothesize about what the perfect pumpkin's...
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Pumpkins!
Students discuss emotion, draw pumpkin faces and write about the way their pumpkin is feeling. In this emotions lesson, students make pumpkin faces and match pumpkin seeds to a card with seeds.
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Pumpkins . . . Not Just Part of Halloween
Students study the pumpkin. In this pumpkin lesson, students participate in different activities that explain the history of pumpkins and how pumpkins develop and grow, read "The Great Pumpkin Story" and answer comprehensive questions...
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Pumpkin Fallacies
Students complete circumference activities using a pumpkin and explore treating people fairly in regards to their physical characteristics. In this math and character lesson, students view images of pumpkins and describe them. Students...
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Pumpkin Puzzler
Light the Halloween festivities with an exercise that connects math, physical science, and language arts. After watching a demonstration of a burning candle, learners use division, multiplication, or algebra to determine how many boxes...
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Putting the 'pi' in Pumpkin Pie
Young scholars use geometric formulas to divide a pumpkin pie. In this geometric formulas lesson, students review equations for area and circumference of a circle and divide a pumpkin pie to practice the formulas. Young scholars use the...
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Profit From Pumpkins
Third graders cut open a pumpkin. In this math instructional activity, 3rd graders complete the worksheet "From Seed to Pumpkin" and then clean out their pumpkins to see how many seeds are in it.
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Pumpkins for Sale
In this problem solving instructional activity, students use division with remainders to determine what the 100th letter will be if the phrase "pumpkins*for*sale" is repeated continuously on a sign.
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Pascal's Pumpkins
For this number pattern worksheet, learners study the pile of pumpkins. Students add the numbers on the pumpkins to determine the pattern and fill in the missing numbers on 8 of the pumpkins shown.
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Fall Treasures: Pumpkin Puzzles
In this early childhood pumpkin math puzzles instructional activity, students cut out the 12 pumpkins labeled with numbers and the droplet puzzle pieces. Students then match the droplet pieces and pumpkin pieces that match.
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Fall Treasures: Scarecrow/Pumpkin Emergent Reader 2
In this early childhood fall activity emergent reader booklet worksheet, students cut out the 11 pages and construct a pumpkin counting booklet that may be read again and again. Students provide pumpkin illustrations based on the numbers...
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Fall Treasures: Scarecrow/Pumpkin Emergent Reader
In this early childhood fall activity emergent reader booklet activity, students cut out the 11 pages and construct a pumpkin counting booklet that may be read again and again.
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Halloween Pumpkin Dot-To-Dot, 1-15
In this dot-to-dot worksheet, students connect dots from numbers 1-15 to create a Halloween pumpkin picture. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Make a Pumpkin Pattern Worksheet
In this pumpkin patterning worksheet, students cut out 11 small pumpkin pictures at the bottom of the page. They use the correct cut outs to complete 5 patterns that each contain four pumpkins.
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Missing Pumpkin Emergent Reader
In these emergent reader worksheets, students create a booklet to help them learn numbers one through fifteen. Students fill in the missing numbers in the pumpkins.
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Canadian Thanksgiving Tradition
It's all about the portion size! Given a photo of a pumpkin pie, learners work to determine the number of calories that are missing. Supplemental information provides the angle of the piece that is missing as well as the nutritional...
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Halloween Graphitti
Students complete multi-curricular activities in a Halloween themed lesson. In this Halloween lesson, students examine newspaper ads to find prices of pumpkins and use them to complete a stem and leaf plot. Students find the diameter,...
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Tally Marks
In this tally chart learning exercise, 1st graders use tally marks to count. Students count the number of pumpkins in each row, keeping a running tally beside each grouping.
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Icing On The Cake
Eighth graders follow a recipe, focusing on the concepts of ratio and proportion, to mix a batch of icing. They decorate cupcakes in the form of a pumpkin.
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Colors of Nature
The colors of nature are the most beautiful and vivid colors in the world. Show kids the ways that colors are striking and changing throughout different habitats with a set of images that feature two animals or plants for each color.
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Things That are Orange
What can you think of that is orange? Bring this word recognition activity to your special education class. Learners can view this resource as many times as necessary to learn about items that are the color orange. They can also build...
