Pumpkin Carving

Name: Stephanie Johnson

Date of Lesson: 10/24/19

Grade Level(s): 4-6

Title/Lesson Topic: Exploring a Pumpkin

Subject/Content Area: Science

Duration: 30-45 min

Unit Description: Exploring a pumpkin

Lesson Description (in student-friendly We will explore a pumpkin and describe how it looks, feels, and
language): smells. Both inside and out.

State Standards: SL.3.1

Co-Teaching Strategy (optional)

Goals

The students will describe the characteristics of a pumpkin both on

Unit Goals (expected outcomes for unit
the inside and the outside.
in observable/measurable terms):

Lesson Goals (expected outcomes for Students will use describing words and make guesses about how
lesson in observable/measurable the pumpkin feels and looks.
terms):
 Vocabulary

Word Student-Friendly Definition

Materials

Pumpkin, knife, chart paper, markers

Methods

Explain that we are going to be describing how the pumpkin looks

Anticipatory Set:
and feels. Talk about who has carved a pumpkin before and what
that was like.

Use some describing words and ask what they think the pumpkin
Introduce and Model New Knowledge
feels like on the outside. Write what they think on the chart paper.

Let the students feel the pumpkin and underline the words that
they thought it might feel like and write any new words on the
chart paper.
 Cut the pumpkin open, and while I am cutting it I will ask the
Provide Guided/Collaborative Practice
students what they think the inside will feel like, and write those
down on the chart paper.

After the pumpkin is open the students will take turns touching the
inside of the pumpkin and describe what it feels like. I will
underline the words that they thought it would feel like that it
actually does, and write down any new ones.

If time we can guess how many seeds are in the pumpkin and start
Provide Independent Practice:
to count them.

Review what the pumpkin felt like and looks like and the different
Closure (review what was learned)
words we used to describe it. What were we right about and what
was not the same.

Assessment (How will you assess student learning for this lesson? How will you know students have met the
objective(s) [What’s the criteria?)?

Formative/Ongoing Assessment: Have everyone describe something that they think about the
pumpkin and give everyone a chance to say what they think.

Summative/End Of Lesson Assessment: Each student will describe one thing about the pumpkin.

Classroom/Behavior Management Strategies

Supports for students with disabilities and/or English Learners

Student’s disability or diversity Support (including accommodations or

modifications)

Autism/Shout outs Student will say “you hate me”, and repeat
back “do you hate me?” and ask then why
they think I hate him.
Aggressive If tired able to sleep in the library until the
medicine wears off, if upset he is able to stay
in the library until he can regulate his
emotions.