The play button should take to you to a video of our school naturalist chopping open our giant pumpkin.
I hope technology is on our side!
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| A family donated a giant pumpkin! We made a big rocker balance out of a log (fulcrum) and a sturdy board. The kindergarteners were able to compare their weight with the giant pumpkin. Only two kids were able to tip the scale! Later, our naturalist chopped the pumpkin open. We collected the seeds and watched it decompose in our learning forest. |
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| We invited families and other adults in our district community to lead small groups of kids in a pumpkin exploration day. They counted seeds, explored pulp, weighted, measured and carved. We provided observation sheets to record their findings. Using this produce scale to weigh the pumpkins was a highlight. |
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| Click on this link to watch the magic of baking soda, vinegar, and green food coloring as they interact with a carved pumpkin. |
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We kept one pumpkin indoors, enclosed in a plastic container and observed the decomposition process.
The book Pumpkin Jack by Will Hubbell is a great resource and read aloud for this. |
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We left some of our pumpkins outside to find out what would happen to them.
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| The happy dancing pumpkin helped us learn a pumpkin rhyme. |
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We asked families to donate gourds and pumpkins. We collected enough variety to engage in hands on sorting, measuring and patterning activities.
More pumpkin physics!
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