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Going, Going Gone Pumpkins: Exploring the Life Cycle of a Pumpkin - Project-Based Learning

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Subject ScienceLife Science
Grade Level PreK, Grades K-2
Resource Type Project Based Learning
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About This Lesson

In this project-based learning lesson, students will learn what qualifies something as a living thing, if each living thing has a life cycle, and about the life cycle of a pumpkin. Students will also compare and contrast two different books about pumpkins and how they grow. This fun, hands-on learning lesson includes cleaning out pumpkin guts along with planting a pumpkin seed inside of another pumpkin and watching it grow!

Technology: Computer, mouse, YouTube, and KidSpiration software

MaterialsPumpkin Circle book, Pumpkin Jack book, The Tiny Seed book, Spookley the Square Pumpkin book and video, scissors, glue, markers, pumpkin, knife, soil.

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WalkerDED5001-3.docx

Project Based Learning
February 13, 2020
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Standards

Develop a simple model that mimics the function of an animal in dispersing seeds or pollinating plants.
Identify and sequence life cycles (birth, growth, and development, reproduction and death) of animals (i.e., butterfly, frog, chicken, snake, dog)

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