Pumpkins and Gourds Notebooking Pages for 1st to 8th grades
These free Pumpkin & Gourds Notebooking printables will help your elementary and middle school students show what they’ve learned about the history and biology of pumpkin and gourd varieties.
These Pumpkins & Gourds notebooking pages can be used for any botany lesson about winter squash cultivars. Online resources, videos, and book recommendations are below to help you and your students with their study of pumpkins (curcubita).
With these Pumpkins & Gourds notebooking pages, your kids can write about the history of the many different varieties grown around the world. (Pumpkins are native to the Americas) Or they can write facts they learned about the pumpkin’s life cycle. They could even use them to write a story about a fall harvest or a trip to a pumpkin patch.
These free Curcubita notebooking printables would even work for copying poems or quotes about pumpkins, such as Edward Smythe Jones’ poem, A Song of Thanks
The pumpkin and gourd notebooking pages come in 3 differentiated levels to fit all of your students’ needs.
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Resources for Researching Pumpkins, Gourds, & Winter Squash
Books
Library List
Select one of each of these books:
From Seed to Pumpkin: A Fall Book for Kids (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1) by Wendy Pfeffer
OR The Pumpkin Book by Gail Gibbons
Too Many Pumpkins by Linda White OR if your family does Jack O’Lanterns: Pumpkin Jack by Will Hubbell
Online Resources
Videos
Watch the life cycle of a pumpkin from Scholastic
You and your older kids will appreciate the amazing pumpkin facts from True Food TV.
Why are pumpkins orange? with Mystery Doug
How to draw a pumpkin from Art for Kids Hub
Pumpkins & Gourds Notebooking and Journaling Printables
These notebooking pages come in 3 levels to fit all of your students’ needs. There’s a large elementary lined one, a smaller elementary lined one, and a regular lined one. There are 13 pages total.
Each level of the winter squash printables also comes in a photo, a color graphic, and in a printer ink friendly black/white.
Download your copy of the Pumpkins & Gourds Notebooking Pages from the Free Resource Library. Look under Individual Notebooking > Botany
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