Do Pumpkin Investigations with this Printable

I’ve already shared a bunch of pumpkin learning activities, but this one is great, too, so I wanted to make sure to include it.

The free pumpkin investigations printable from the STEM Laboratory is an easy way for you and your kids to make predictions and measure a small pumpkin.

It includes guessing how tall and how big around the pumpkin is, how much it weighs and whether it sinks or floats (clearly these need to be small pumpkins that kids can manipulate easily).

There’s a place for kids to write words describing the pumpkin. You could also have them draw a picture of the pumpkin.

This is such a fun science activity for this time of year.

Do you use pumpkins in learning activities? I’d love to hear about it.

[Photo via the STEM Laboratory.]

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Learning about Women in STEM

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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