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An Elementary Activity Pumpkins are fun! Their size and color, smell and taste make them perfect for children's observation and exploration. In this activity students in cooperative groups search, suggest, question, predict, and estimate the number of seeds in a set of pumpkins. They will combine mathematical procedures and scientific observation to learn more about this seasonal delight. Divide ...

Museums in the Classroom Pumpkin Project This project was created by teachers in the 1997 Museums in the Classroom Summer Workshop at the Chicago Academy of Sciences. The lesson is all about those lovely, roundish, orange fruits--pumpkins. Included in this project are hands-on activities, links to other web sites on pumpkins, extension ideas, and a discussion of the standards met by this project.

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Halloween is the perfect time for your students to scare up a humorous poem or epitaph! Check out these poetry-writing ideas from teacher Glori Chaika. Send a selection of your students' work to us!

Image from Bats are Beautiful (http://users.mildura.net.au/users/dgee/) Go on a BatQuest Bats are unusual animals and endangered. They are the only mammal that flies. They also use an advanced system of echolocation for navigation. Did you know that there are almost 1000 kinds of bats located all around the world. There are some bats as small as a jelly bean and some as large as a small dog. On ...

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Halloween Happenings I divide my students into squads of 4 to 6 and run these as relays for the individual squads. I set up 10 stations a day ( I have double classes, so for single classes 5 would probably do fine). I have my grade 5 & 6 students run the stations. I rotate the students every 5 minutes and usually go through 5 a class. I don't keep score, but if you want to these are easily ...

Adapted from: A Cauldron of Halloween Ideas Scary Starters Writing Activity Ideas Give each small group of three to four students one of the following Scary Starters with which to begin a short story. Have groups share their stories, and then compile them into a class book. As an alternative, have groups use Scary Starters to begin an oral tale. After groups practice their story, they can ...