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Fall Season Lesson Plans

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Fall Teaching Theme
September Monthly Helpers
Fall Worksheets
Signs of the Fall Autumn Season
Halloween Lesson Plans
Word Libs - Fall Theme Workbook
How Does Fall Work? Reading Series
Word Libs - November Theme Workbook
October Monthly Helpers    
  1. 5 Step Lesson Plan: Falling Leaves- "Students will create a tree from construction paper."
  2. Apple Tree in Seasons- "Students will make a class list of what has happened in each season, and then they will complete an assignment that requires them to glue and color the correct tree to the correct season (word)."
  3. Apples and Seasons- " Use the apple tree, and The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree by Gail Gibbons to teach seasonal changes."
  4. Autumn Leaves Are Falling- "Autumn in New Hampshire is always so beautiful! In October we begin to learn about trees, leaves, and the changing of the seasons."

How Does Fall Work? Reading Series

This wonderful series of lessons and reading comprehension worksheets helps students understanding the ins and outs of Fall (Autumn) Season.

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Signs of the Fall Autumn Season

This series of lessons and worksheets looks at the predominate signs that the fall season is upon us.

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  1. Autumn Leaves: Where does the color come from? - In Autumn most people enjoy colorful leaves, brought about by external stimuli. In this lesson students explore leaf pigmentation through chromatography.
  2. A Reason For Season - Become a season sleuth. Learn the long and short of the changing of the seasons, then test your knowledge with our cosmic map.
  3. Colors in the Leaves - Where do the brilliant colors of fall come from? Most leaves appear green. In the fall, leaves turn orange, yellow, and red. Most leaves aren't changing colors. The pigments are always present in the leaves.
  4. Comparing Leaves - Students will compare trees by studying leaves, in order to tell them apart.
  5. Community Canned Food Drive (Part 1) - During the fall holiday months, the class actively assists the local community in the annual collection of canned food for needy families. Advertisements promoting the campaign are created with Student Writing Center.
  6. Community Canned Food Drive (Part 2) - During the fall holiday months, the class actively assists the local community in the annual collection of canned food for needy families. Students become involved in a graph-keeping adventure as they encourage the school to collect many canned foods.
  7. Estimating With Pumpkin Seeds- "Do you know how many seeds are inside the pumpkin? Follow these steps to find out."
  8. Fall Fun- "Students will learn about opossums, share embarrassing moments that they've had, and discuss how each person is unique. Students will create "Special Spiders" to showcase their uniqueness."
  9. Fall Haiku- "Students learn to use the poetry style of Haiku."
  10. Fall into Rhyme- "Students write a Fall poem and explore rhyming patterns."
  11. Fall Similes- "Write fall-themed poems using similes."
  12. Fall Leaf Watercolors- "Students will create a leaf scene using a variety of leaf patterns."
  13. Forest in a Jar- "In this activity, students will be able to see in miniature how a swampy area can be succeeded by a forested habitat."
  14. Form and Texture in Autumn - The student will use nature guidebooks and plant handbooks to identify the names of plants found during an autumn walk.
  15. Fun Fall Leaves- "To see the natural beauty in a fall leaf."
  16. Haiku Leaves - The students use prior knowledge and first-hand observations of the natural world around them to create their own Haiku poems. The final draft is put on handmade leaves (from construction paper) to create an autumn-theme classroom display.
  17. How Tall in the Fall? - Students use nonstandard measurement to measure. Students estimate to predict the correct length before they measure. Students count the correct number of objects used to measure.
  18. If Trees Could Speak, What Would They Say? - The change of seasons, as seen in New York, is a phenomenon not all people experience. This lesson addresses how students experience the change in the fall season. Students will describe how the change of the seasons makes them feel, and they will share their past experiences with seasonal changes.
  19. Leafy Green- "Is green the only color in a leaf?"
  20. Pumpkin Potpourri
  21. Seasonal Haiku: Writing Poems to Celebrate Any Season - In this three-part lesson, students write and illustrate haiku depicting seasonal images. First they use their observation skills, real-world knowledge, and knowledge of parts of speech to help them create seasonal word charts.
  22. Seasons For Kindergartners- "Students will be able to list the order of seasons, starting with Fall--the beginning of the school year. Students will be able to tell what activities are done during each season."
  23. Signs of Autumn - This is a culminating activity on the study of photosynthesis, how chlorophyll is important to leaves, and why leaves change colors in the fall.
  24. The Leaves of Autumn - Dance lesson which incorporates visualization and imagination to create individual expressive dance movements the focus on the words and movement found during the season of autumn.
  25. What and When is Fall?- "This activity helps students to understand the tilt of the Earth and how it factors into seasonal changes."

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Fall Theme Workbook

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