Kindergarten Pumpkin Activities: Pumpkins Research Project

It’s time for the pumpkins!! Learning about pumpkins is always a favorite in kindergarten!   And we love using our Pumpkin Research Project to get a hands-on learning adventure with these kindergarten pumpkin activities! This pumpkins research project gives students experience with research, writing, higher-order thinking, vocabulary, and pumpkin centers! And it’s fun! And that’s what matters most! Making learning fun! As always, we kick off our pumpkin research project or pumpkin unit with a schema map! We share our schema (what we know) about pumpkins. As we learn about pumpkins we add our new learning and finally, we address any misconceptions.

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Kindergarten Pumpkin Activities: Research

Our research projects center on read alouds and videos for the research and class charts for recording our learning. The students use the class charts to write in their research journals. THEY LOVE THEIR RESEARCH JOURNALS! I love that our research projects give them a consistent structure!

The true/false sort is one of the last activities we do in our research projects and is a great way to bring higher-order thinking into your classroom. This is also an opportunity to have some great academic conversations about what makes a statement true or false!

We study the life cycle of pumpkins and we label the parts of a pumpkin. Labeling activities provide great explicit vocabulary instruction which is a must for our kids.

Kindergarten Pumpkin Activities: Measurement

We measure ourselves using pumpkins! We learn about estimating and how we were making a SMART guess and then we estimate how many pumpkins tall we might be. Each student got measured using our pumpkins. We recorded our guess and actual measurement on our paper. Mr. Greg took a picture of each kidand we make it into a class book.

Kindergarten Pumpkin Activities: Sink Or Float

We also do sink or float with pumpkins! This science experiment is super fun because the kids are always amazed at the results! We predict if a pumpkin will sink or float, and then we do our experiment, and we record our results in our pumpkin research journal!

Kindergarten Pumpkin Activities: Art Projects

We also made pasta pumpkins! This is one of my favorites! I dye the pasta wheels orange. I give the kids a pumpkin outline and they glue the pasta onto the pumpkins!