Core Knowledge Foundation
A Time for All Seasons - Fall
The weather is cooling down and the leaves are starting to change color; fall is right around the corner. Celebrate this special time of year with this earth and life science lesson series that teaches children about the causes of...
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Color Change in Leaves
High schoolers identify the different leaf pigments and colors. In this biology lesson, students perform chromatography to separate them. They explain how light affects green leaf colors and causes falling leaves in autumn.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Cultural Change
High schoolers research the passage of the 19th Amendment as an illustration of the mutual influence between political ideas and cultural attitudes. They also read the Seneca Falls Declaration and explore the cultural shifts it both...
Education World
Leaves Change Color Scavenger Hunt
In this leaves changing worksheet, students use the Internet to search a specific website to find the answers to fill in seventeen blanks involving the reasons why leaves change colors during the Fall season.
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Watercolor Leaves
Students explore autumn leaves. In this autumn activity, students read a story about fall and discuss why leaves change. Students examine fall leaves and trace leaves onto paper. Students may use watercolors to decorate their leaf.
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Crayon Resist Fall Leaves
Students observe the different colors in fall leaves. They create a multi-color fall leaf in the crayon-resist technique.
CK-12 Foundation
Seasonal Changes in Plants: Leaf Pigment
Leaves fall off the tree in the autumn, but why do they change colors? The interactive covers the role of chlorophyll and photosynthesis. It also explains both carotenoids and anthocyanins.
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Falling Into Leaves
Students investigate why leaves change color. In this chlorophyll lesson, students examine how chlorophyll effects the color changes in leaves. Students take pictures of changing leaves, and create a class quilt showing the changes of...
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Adjectives About the Fall Season
In this recognizing descriptive words worksheet, students write adjectives about the fall season and the color change in leaves and then create sentences using the adjectives.
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Stem-Changing Reflexive Verbs
Intended for learners who are somewhat familiar with stem-changing reflexive verbs, this resource provides a quick review chart and a nine-problem practice section.
Virginia Department of Education
Weather Patterns and Seasonal Changes
Get your class outside to observe their surroundings with a instructional activity highlighting weather patterns and seasonal changes. First, learners take a weather walk to survey how the weather affects animals, people, plants, and...
Curated OER
Autumn Arrays
Autumn is a time for nature to get ready for the upcoming winter. After listening to the book Time to Sleep about the changes of deciduous trees in the fall, learners monitor a tree on a daily basis and view photos of fall foliage online.
Core Knowledge Foundation
Weather or Not, Seasons Change
Embark on a year long investigation of the seasons with this 10-lesson earth science unit. After being introduced to different types of weather and the tools used to measure it, young scientists perform fun hands-on activities that teach...
Curated OER
Look At Those Leaves!
Students collect, observe, sort, and measure leaves. For this leaf lesson, students take a walk to collect leaves. They bring the leaves back into the classroom to observe, sort, and measure them. They visit a website to learn more about...
Curated OER
Crayon Resist Fall Leaves
Students study and explore the season of fall and investigate why fall leaves change color. Students explore the crayon resist technique and discuss other events of the fall season.
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Crayon Resist Fall Leaves
Pupils create examples of fall leaves using crayons, paints, and white paper in this fall Art lesson for the early-elementary classroom. Emphasis is placed upon a class lecture/discussion about why leaves change color prior to the lesson.
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Fall Vocabulary Quiz
In this fall vocabulary worksheet, students complete a ten question multiple choice quiz with vocabulary pertaining to the season of fall.
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Fall Vocabulary
For this fall vocabulary worksheet, students read 10 definitions and match them to the vocabulary words pertaining to fall in a word box.
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Watercolor Leaves
Create your own fall landscape in kindergarten! After listening to a story about fall and discussing why leaves change colors, young learners use the crayon resist technique and color resist art technique to craft their own illustrations.
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Fall Perspective Landscape
Fall can be a beautiful time of year with leaves and bright colors everywhere! Little ones can explore the wonders of fall as they create perspective landscapes showing a fall scene. They work on creating a foreground, background and...
Resources for Educators
Fractions of Fun
Reinforce concepts and encourage learner engagement with a collection of math games, science experiments, and cross curricular activities. In one fun resource, learners sort objects, keep a diary of everyday fractions, play a game using...
Crayola
Autumn Scratchings
Students discuss some of the signs of changing seasons. They are asked how do they know that it is fall? Students use Crayola Crayons, to rub patches of traditional fall colors on white construction paper. They fill the entire sheet with...
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Pigment Puzzles
A hands-on chromatography lesson brings science to the magic of changing autumn leaves. After collecting plant samples, young scientists use paper strips, two liquids, and coffee filters to separate the pigments, then match their print...