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Autumn Lesson Plans and Ideas
Take advantage of the seasonal changes to excite students about fall
- Grades:PreK–K, Grades 1–2
Welcome autumn into your classroom by celebrating harvest time and the changing foliage. These fall-themed lesson plans, activities, and resource lists cover a variety of subjects, appeal to different learning styles, and can be taught in your classroom today!
Activities
Harvest Time Math
Combine real-world math skills with information about harvests by using raw data provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Colorful Fall Fun With Clifford
With the help of Clifford, children compare problem solving strategies used in his stories. Also, find a variety of fun ideas to celebrate one of the most brilliant colors of autumn — orange.
Fresh Fall Ideas
Tested in classrooms by Instructor readers, these activities include hosting a math and science pumpkin party, creating masks from around the world, and keeping a tree journal.
Teachers' Picks: Books for Fall
From apples to pumpkins, Ramadan to Halloween, autumn has plenty of things to celebrate. Here are some books that will help.
Harvest Prints
Using fruits and vegetables as stamps, students create prints and patterns to reinforce the lesson that fruits contain seeds.
Music and Movement: Falling Rain Dance
In this ready-to-use teaching idea for mixed ages, children go on a short rainy day walk while developing their observational skills and exercising creative movement.
Leaves and Trees
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf Extension Activities
Engage the children in a discussion about the different types of trees in your community.
Fall Leaves Fall! Lesson Plan
In this brilliantly hued celebration of the fun of fall, two brothers enjoy everybody's favorite autumn activities: chasing leaves through the air, stomping on them, raking them into piles, and jumping in!
Now It's Fall Lesson Plan
In this lesson plan for the picture book Now It's Fall, by Lois Lenski, students will learn about autumn and different objects and events associated with this special season.
Autumn Leaves Curriculum Connections
Explore leaves through exercising estimation skills, expanding leaf-themed vocabulary, and moving like a falling leaf.
Finger Paint Leaf Prints Activity Plan
Observe the different shapes, sizes, and vein patterns of leaves by using finger paints and leaf prints.
See the Fall Foliage: Web Resources
Take a tour of what the Web has to offer on autumn. Featured sites contain a comparison of fall in different biomes, step-by-step directions on how to preserve leaves, and a kid-friendly explanation of why leaves change colors.
A Look at Life Cycles Lesson Plan
Illustrate the life cycle of an apple tree by having students work as a team to create a display about the four seasons.
Lesson Plans
Fall vs. Spring Lesson Plan
Science and language arts activities, from comparing and contrasting seasons to identifying the characteristics of a flower
Pumpkins
Pumpkins in the Primary Classroom Curricular Unit
This thematic, interdisciplinary curricular unit presents lesson plans in language arts, mathematics, social studies and science. All lessons are centered around pumpkins and their uses and meaning in the fall season.
Books for Teaching With Pumpkins
Use this book list as a starting point for discussions and experiments about pumpkins. These titles can be used as read-alouds, pocket chart stories, and choral readings.
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