Pumpkin Investigation Halloween STEM Activity
Carly and Adam STEM Activities and Challenges
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Carly and Adam STEM Activities and Challenges
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Celebrate Pumpkin Day with these fun Pumpkin Day Activities!Make learning fun with these Fall Pumpkin STEM Activities where students investigate pumpkins, use pumpkins to teach Growth Mindset, and engage in Pumpkin STEM Challenges.Aligns with Common Core and NGSS!Includes:Teacher and Student InstrucPrice $14.00Original Price $19.50Save $5.50
Description
How many seeds in a pumpkin?
Make learning fun with this fall STEM activity in which students investigate pumpkins! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? by Margaret McNamara and G. Brian Karas.
Students measure how big a pumpkin is, how much it weighs, and guess how many seeds will be inside. After they have completed their activity, there is time for reflection on their work.
Aligns with Common Core.
Includes:
- Teacher and Student Instructions
- Student Planning Pages
- Student Reflection Pages
- STEM Journal
- CCSS Standards
- TpT Digital Version for Distance Learning with Google Classroom
Digital Activity:
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Material List:
- Pumpkin
- Rulers
- Scale
- Yarn/String
- Plastic Table Cloth (Optional)
- Knife to cut open pumpkin (FOR TEACHER ONLY)
- How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? by Margaret McNamara and G. Brian Karas (recommended)
Total Pages
10 pages
Answer Key
N/A
Teaching Duration
1 hour
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSS2.MD.A.1
Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes.
CCSS2.MD.A.2
Measure the length of an object twice, using length units of different lengths for the two measurements; describe how the two measurements relate to the size of the unit chosen.
CCSS2.MD.A.4
Measure to determine how much longer one object is than another, expressing the length difference in terms of a standard length unit.
CCSS3.MD.A.2
Measure and estimate liquid volumes and masses of objects using standard units of grams (g), kilograms (kg), and liters (l). Add, subtract, multiply, or divide to solve one-step word problems involving masses or volumes that are given in the same units, e.g., by using drawings (such as a beaker with a measurement scale) to represent the problem.
CCSS2.NBT.A.2
Count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.
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