** Please take note: Activity Two Contains Allergy

Precautions- Pumpkin and Corn Seeds**

Science-Nature Learning Center

Theme: Fall and Fall Harvest- Our Fall Tree
Standards:

Objectives:
Students will be able to identify the color of leaves and associate them with the
appropriate season.
Students will be able to create a two-dimensional tree which mimics the associated leaf
colors for the fall season.
Students will be able to identify and establish differences between two different types of
seeds while critically think to problem solve to participate in a game which focuses on
strategy.
Students will be able to enhance memory skills by learning the names (while also
enhancing the students vocabulary) of correlated autumn items and animals with its
picture.
Intent: The strategy behind these objectives are that which students will be able to learn
about common themes of the season autumn along with enhancing specific foundational
skills to build from in their future education. The pre-kindergarten students will learn
basic science behind the changing of leaf colors throughout seasons (focusing on fall), the

difference between two agricultural items in the fall (pumpkin and corn seeds), and learn
a new set of vocabulary while associating the word with its appropriate picture.
Activities: For the activities, it does not matter as to which order you decide to introduce
and complete the activities while engaging the students. However, we suggest the
following:
1. Students will create a fall tree. There is an example of this on the tri-fold on the
centers table.
Materials:

Tree template, fall-leaf colored pieces of tissue paper, brown

crayons, pencil, glue-stick, tree chart indicating the change of
seasons.

Firstly, we provided a chart of four trees: each tree shows the status of a tree and its
leaves in each season. Please go through this chart with the students before the following
activity so they may differentiate how each tree looks in each season.
Students will be given a template of a bare tree (for example, it looks a tree in the winterno leaves, just branches and trunk). Students will take turns using the templates to trace it
onto a blank sheet of paper. When students finish tracing the tree onto their sheet of
paper, they may color the trees arms and its body.
When students finish coloring, they will choose whichever color(s) of tissue paper they
would like. We recommend about 10 to 15 pieces of tissue paper squares per child.
Students will take a square of tissue paper, lightly crumple it, and then use the glue stick
to adhere the tissue paper to the sheet of paper so that the tissue paper becomes the fall
leaves hanging on the tree.

Once the class finishes their fall trees and the glue dries, you may enter every childs tree
into a book. We gladly created a book for you, including a cover page and an end pageall you need to do it enclose each tree inbetween those two sheets.
2. Students will play tic-tac-toe at the learning center. The two markers students will
use to differentiate between the two plays are pumpkins seeds and corn seeds.
Materials: Tic-tac-toe boards (which are laminated so they are re-usable) and a
set of pumpkin seeds and the set of corn seeds.
Firstly, please go through the differences between the two seeds: their shapes, smell,
colors, etc.
Once the children grasp the difference between the two types of seeds, they can use these
seeds to play tic-tac-toe at the center. Please explain to them the concept of the game if
they have not yet learned this.
Posted on the tri-fold are visual cues of how a child may win the game, hence showing
them how to play.
3. Lastly, students will use the laminated pictures at the learning center to practice
memory and vocabulary.
Materials: Laminated matching cards/pictures.
Before introducing these items to the students, please review the vocabulary and
correlating pictures with the students, even though some may already know a few of the
terms.
These items will be at the learning center for students to use and practice. Attached to the
tri-fold, like the latter, there will be visual cues to instruct the students how to go about
using the cards.