If you are able to visit a pumpkin patch and bring pumpkins home, you’re in luck — there are many scientific and mathematical activities you can do with all those pumpkins! Before beginning any activities with the pumpkins we recommend putting each child’s name on his or her “personal pumpkin” with a permanent marker to eliminate any disputes about which pumpkin belongs to whom.
In our work on westward expansion we study why and how people moved across the country in the pioneer days. This is an extension of that idea using the story of Johnny Appleseed.
Students
* find and identify coordinates of points in a drawing on graph paper
* solve a graphing puzzle created by another student.
Students create descriptive autumn similes and write them on fall-themed paper.
Students measure the weight of a container of leaves daily to discover how quickly it grows lighter as the foliage dries.