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Flat Aggie: All About Pumpkins

October 20, 2014

With each Flat Aggie report, I’ll be putting together a list additional resources, websites, recipes, books, and activities.  Use this and farmer math from A Kansas Farm Mom to bring Flat Aggie’s Agmazing Adventures to life!

Use with Flat Aggie Visits the Great Pumpkin Patch

Classroom Materials
From Illinois Ag in the Classroom: Pumpkin Ag Mags

From Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom: Harvest of the Month posters (scroll down to find cucumbers or summer squash) & corresponding lessons about cucurbits (i.e. pumpkins, squash, etc.)

Books

  • Too Many Pumpkins by Linda White (ISBN-13: 978-0823413201)
  • The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin by Joe Troiano (ISBN-13: 97-8435120884)
  • How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? by Margaret McNamara (ISBN13: 9780375940149)
  • From Seed to Pumpkin by Wendy Pfeffer
  • Patty’s Pumpkin Patch by Terri Sloat
  • Picking Apples and Pumpkins by Liz Mills
  • Pumpkin by Jack Will Hubbell
  • Pumpkin Pumpkin by Jeanne Titherington
  • Pumpkins by Jacqueline Farmer

Classroom Activities
From Illinois Ag in the Classroom
Pumpkin Interest Approaches (scroll down to pumpkin) Includes pumpkin pie in a bag, pumpkin chain and more.
Pumpkin Glyph (for K-3). Found on page 12 of this lesson book.

Pumpkin Suncatcher

Web Resources

  • Science Kids
  • Kids’ Activities
  • How to Grow a Libby’s Pumpkin? (video)

 

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