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Pumpkin Lesson

The document describes the pumpkin life cycle in 7 steps: seed, flower, sprout, green pumpkin, plant, orange pumpkin. It then provides an integrated lesson plan for teaching students about the pumpkin life cycle through a read aloud, sequencing activity using pictures and words, and a craft activity where students staple paper plates together and attach pictures representing the life cycle steps to a piece of yarn inside the pumpkin.

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Pumpkin Lesson

The document describes the pumpkin life cycle in 7 steps: seed, flower, sprout, green pumpkin, plant, orange pumpkin. It then provides an integrated lesson plan for teaching students about the pumpkin life cycle through a read aloud, sequencing activity using pictures and words, and a craft activity where students staple paper plates together and attach pictures representing the life cycle steps to a piece of yarn inside the pumpkin.

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Pumpkin Life Cycle

seed

flower

sprout

green
pumpkin

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plant

orange
pumpkin

Amanda Post

Dr. Ron McIntire

EDU 5023, SU 01

Integrated Lesson Plan: Pumpkins


Measurable Learner Objectives:
Science:
The student will be able to recognize the plant life cycle.
Language Arts:
The student will be able to correctly sequence a story or everyday events.
Assessment:
The student will correctly sequence pictures of the pumpkin life cycle.
Suggested Learning Activities:
1. Shared reading of Pumpkin, Pumpkin by Jeanne Titherington
2. Sentence strips telling the story are displayed. The students are given
cards with pictures to fill in the blanks and are invited to come up and
place them on the chart.
Jamie planted a pumpkin ______,
and the pumpkin seed grew a pumpkin _________,
and the pumpkin sprout grew a pumpkin ________,
and the pumpkin plant grew a pumpkin ________,
and the pumpkin flower grew a pumpkin.
And the pumpkin __________, and ________, and __________,
until Jamie ______ it.
3. Students create a model of the pumpkin cycle.
Staple two paper plates together, leaving the top section unstapled.
Decorate like a jack-o-lantern. Attach a piece of yarn to the pumpkin.
Attach pictures to the yarn that represent each of the steps leading up to
the jack-o-lantern. The vine can be stuffed inside the pumpkin and
gradually pulled out as students retell the Pumpkin, Pumpkin story, or
recite the steps of the pumpkin life cycle.
Resources:
Big Book: Pumpkin, Pumpkin by Jeanne Titherington
Sentence strips, word/picture cards
Pumpkin life cycle sheet, paper plates
Pumpkins
Reteaching/Enrichment:
Take a field trip to a pumpkin patch. Recall events or use pictures from field trip
to sequence.
Plant pumpkin seeds:
Place in plastic bag with wet paper towel until they sprout, then place in soil.
Keep track of and sequence steps.
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