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Winter Squash: Sink or Float?
Provided by: Center for Ecoliteracy |Published on: November 1, 2022
Lesson Plans Grades 3-5
Synopsis
- This hands-on lesson about California-grown squash includes directions for a squash taste test, a squash buoyancy test, a vocabulary list, and worksheets to print for your students.
- Students will enjoy this fun lesson, which can span one or two 50-minute periods.
Subjects: Science, English Language Arts, Health
Authors: Center for Ecoliteracy
Region: North America, USA - West, United States, Global, California
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- This lesson will provide students with lasting impressions.
- Students will get to test their hypotheses about squash buoyancy, taste several varieties of winter squash, and learn about these vegetables.
Additional Prerequisites
- Several materials are required to complete all the components of this lesson, including copies of worksheets, baking and kitchen supplies, several varieties of squash, and plastic containers filled with water.
Differentiation
- This activity would work well in a health class discussing nutrition, a science class working on density or biodiversity, and language arts classes reading non-fiction.
- It would work well as station work or lab work, where students complete a portion of the lesson and rotate through each of the stations.
- As an extension, have students complete the density test with other produce.
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About the Partner Provider
Center for Ecoliteracy
The Center for Ecoliteracy advances the teaching and modeling of sustainable practices in K–12 schools. The organization builds partnerships and the capacity of K–12 schools to support healthy, sustainable school communities and food systems change in schools. The Center for Ecoliteracy leads systems change initiatives, publishes original books and resources, facilitates conferences and professional development, and provides strategic consulting. The organization works at multiple levels of scale, with local, regional, state, and national programs.
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