Halloween Pumpkin Investigation

Pumpkins with ghoulish faces and illuminated by candles are a sure sign of the Halloween season.

But what do we know about an integral part of Halloween festivities?

🎃 Why are carved pumpkins called Jack O'Lantern?

🎃 Who is Jack? Why Carved Pumpkins?

🎃 What to know the history of Jack O'Lantern?

Instructions

👉This original content is starting with Video-Assisted Learning to help build background and knowledge about the history of Jack O'Lantern.

👉Next, it’s Pumpkin Time!!! We are gearing up for engaging learning all about pumpkins.

These activity sheets will take you through the life cycle of a pumpkin, exploring the parts of a pumpkin and inside of a pumpkin.

👉Then, describing the inside and the outside of a pumpkin by using the Five-Senses Anchor Chart.

👉After that, students will take a picture of a pumpkin and throw it to the Whiteboard.

They will start to explore various science, math, and language art concepts activities in the classroom: what is the size of your pumpkin?

How many seeds, lines are in the pumpkin? Whether a pumpkin sinks or floats when placed in water.

Describe your pumpkin and draw your Jack O'Lantern face!

👉Last, using story mind map- 5W’s method to let students organize thoughts for showing their comprehension of the story.