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Lesson Plans - 5th Grade

Fall Doorknob Decorations

This autumn decoration is great to give as a gift. Celebrate the season! Use these ideas, or your own imagination, to make a beautiful door hanger. Find out why leaves on deciduous trees turn such beautiful colors before you start.

Color-Changing Cells

Students gather information about photoperiodism and senescence.

Blushing Pumpkins

Explore growth cycles through the seasons then create original chalk drawings of pumpkins ready for harvest.

Tissue Leaf Rubbings

Make a beautiful picture with tissue paper leaf rubbings.

Signs of Autumn

This is a culminating activity on the study of photosynthesis, how chlorophyll is important to leaves, and why leaves change colors in the fall.