It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Introduction

The peanuts gang plans to go trick or treating for Halloween, but one of them will be missing. Linus believes that the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch, flies into the air, and then delivers presents to all of the boys and girls in the world. Linus is sitting there all night waiting for the Great Pumpkin to arrive. During this Web Quest you will check out all of the different stages in the Pumpkin Life Cycle. It will be your task to be able to correctly color, cut, and put the stages of the Pumpkin Life Cycle in order.

Task

Grade:

Kindergarten

Task:

Students will be able to comprehend and explain the pumpkin life cycle.

Standards:

K-ESS3-1. Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live.

K-ESS2-2. Construct an argument supported by evidence for how plants and animals (including humans) can change the environment to meet their needs.

K-LS1-1. Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

W.K.2. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.

W.K.8. With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.

SL.K.4. Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail. SL.K.5. Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.

Process

After reading It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown as a class. We will dive into the stages of a Pumpkin Life cycle. The teacher will teach a lesson explaining the stages and going into detail of the stages. Then you will be put into 3 groups so you can rotate through 4 stations.

Station 1: This station will have pumpkins. Each student will be able to have their own pumpkin and they will be expected to close their eyes and feel the pumpkin while thinking about different characteristics they can feel but not see. The student will write down at least 6 characteristic of what they can feel. Example: curvy, bumpy, round, hard, and ect.

Station 2: At this station students will be listening and singing along to the pumpkin life cycle song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifLMJLN-A9w

Station 3: At this station students will be able to use in class computers and play a carving game online.

https://www.abcya.com/games/pumpkin_carving

Station 4: At this station students will be able to use in classroom Ipads to play a game that makes students move the stages of a pumpkins life cycle into the correct order.

http://www.akidsheart.com/science/os9sci/pumpkinlife.html

Then after all stations have been completed, students will be given a worksheet. They will have to color the different stages, cut, and glue them down in order of the pumpkin life cycle. They must complete the worksheet and turn it in the teacher will grade based on the rubric. Link to the worksheet below!

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/285908276323382718/?nic_v2=1a1TiOEQm

Evaluation

Rubric:

Criteria:	Excellent 3	Good 2	Needs Work 1	Unsatisfactory 0	Points Earned
Stages in Order:	Students will be able to correctly glue the stages of a pumpkins life cycle in the correct order without the teacher’s help.	Students will be able to correctly glue the stages of a pumpkins life cycle in the correct order with only 1-2 mistakes AND asks the teacher for help only once.	Students will be able to correctly glue the stages of a pumpkins life cycle in the correct order with only 3-4 mistakes AND asks the teacher for help 3-4 times.	Students will NOT be able to correctly glue the stages of a pumpkins life cycle in order without the teachers help.
Stages are colored Correctly:	Students will be able to correctly color the stages.	Students will be able to correctly color the stages with less than 1-2 mistakes.	Students will be able to correctly color the stages with less than 3-4 mistakes.	Students will NOT be able to correctly color the stages with less than 5-6 mistakes.
Work is Neat and Organized:	Students will be able to cut, color, and glue the stages in a neat and organized manner.	Students will be able to cut, color, and glue the stages in an ALMOST neat and organized manner.	Students will be able to cut, color, and glue the stages to the best of their ability.	Students can NOT cut, color, and glue in a neat and organized manner.

Total:___________

Conclusion

Great Job! You have completed this Web Quest. During this Web Quest we learned about the Pumpkin Life Cycle. I hope that you enjoyed learning about pumpkins and it gets you all in the Fall Spirit!