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Pumpkin Life Cycle Worksheets

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Seed, sprout, vine, flower, green pumpkin and pumpkin: a chart, cut and paste, a wheel to spin, parts of a pumpkin and counting seeds.

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Pumpkin life cycle

Parts of a pumpkin and pumpkin math

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About these pumpkin life cycle worksheets

A pumpkin grows from a flat white seed into a sprout with two round leaves, then a long vine with big leaves and curly tendrils. Yellow flowers open, a little green pumpkin grows behind a flower, and by fall it is a big orange pumpkin full of seeds.

These pumpkin life cycle worksheets show all six stages in detailed line drawings. Every life cycle set has a chart, a label the stages page, a cut and paste sequence, a life cycle wheel to color and spin, a draw the stages page and a read-aloud story with picture questions.

The parts of a pumpkin pages show a pumpkin cut in half, with the stem, skin, flesh, stringy pulp and seeds to label. Bring a real pumpkin to class for the counting page and the pumpkin investigation page.

Standards

  • NGSS 3-LS1-1Grade 3, introduced early: develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
  • NGSS 4-LS1-1Grade 4, introduced early: construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.2Use 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.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.2Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.6Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.5Count to answer "how many?" questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1–20, count out that many objects.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.MD.A.1Describe measurable attributes of objects, such as length or weight. Describe several measurable attributes of a single object.

How to use them

  1. Show the chart and ask what children already know about how pumpkins grow.
  2. Use the cut and paste page to practice the order, then build the wheel.
  3. Cut open a pumpkin and find the stem, skin, flesh, pulp and seeds from the parts of a pumpkin chart.
  4. Count seeds into groups, then use the counting page.

Teaching tips

  • Pumpkins float, even big ones, because they are hollow inside. Have children predict first.
  • A pumpkin is a fruit because it grows from a flower and holds the seeds.
  • Pumpkin seeds take about 3 to 4 months to become ripe pumpkins, so farmers plant them in early summer.
  • Dry and save a few seeds so children can plant them in spring.

Questions teachers and parents ask

What are the stages of the pumpkin life cycle?

Seed, sprout, vine, flower, green pumpkin and orange pumpkin. The ripe pumpkin is full of seeds that can grow new pumpkins.

Is a pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable?

Scientists call a pumpkin a fruit because it grows from a flower and holds the seeds. In the kitchen people often cook it like a vegetable.

Are there answer keys?

Yes. The label, cut and paste, read-aloud, parts of a pumpkin and seed counting pages each have an answer key on page 2.