Welcome autumn into your classroom and celebrate harvest time and the changing foliage with fall-themed lesson plans about pumpkins, leaves, and life cycles and teaching ideas for math, science and art!
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Autumn and Harvest Lesson Plans and 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.
7 Fresh Fall Ideas
Fun fall activities for your classroom, such as hosting a math-and-science pumpkin party and keeping a tree journal.
Teachers' Picks: Books for Fall
Books with striking illustrations, early reader favorites, the best tales in the West, and — of course — a few spooky stories.
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.
Fall vs. Spring Lesson Plan
Science and language arts activities, from comparing and contrasting seasons to identifying the characteristics of a flower
All About Leaves
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf Extension Activities
These fun learning activities about trees incorporate language arts, math, and science.
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, including 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 an apple tree's growth by having students work as a team to create a display about the four seasons.
Pumpkin Ideas
Pumpkins in the Primary Classroom Curricular Unit
A thematic, interdisciplinary curricular unit that presents pumpkin-themed lesson plans in language arts, mathematics, and science.
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.
- Subjects:Autumn, Autumn Themes, Teacher Tips and Strategies
