Get Outside:

Brief Description: Through hands-on interdisciplinary activities, students learn about pumpkins as fruits and as food sources.

Level: Grades PreK-6

Subjects: Mathematics, Science, Language Arts, Social Studies

Teaching Time (est): 2-3hrs.

c. 2003 Project Food, Land and People

Suggested Readings for Children/Books (available at most local public and school libraries):

• Fleming, Denise. (2001). Pumpkin eye. New York: Henry Holt and Company. ISBN-0-80506681-0
• Robbins, Ken. (2006). Pumpkins. New Milford: Roaring Brook Press. ISBN:  978-159643184-3
• White, Linda. (1996). Too many pumpkins. New York: Holiday House. ISBN: 0-8234-1245-8 
• Wallace, Nancy E. (2002). Pumpkin day. Tarrytown: Marshall Cavendish. ISBN: 0-7614-5128-5 

Suggested Extensions:

Use computer software such as Graph Club (grK-4), Graph Master (gr4-8) of MS Excel to create the pumpkin data charts and graphs.