Port Clinton Middle School held its annual “Pumpkin Day” for Fleet 7 Oct. 30. This interdisciplinary lesson covered many subject areas allowing for fun and educational lessons for grade 7 students.
In science class, students weighed 30 pumpkins and counted the seeds. The students would then calculate the average number of seeds per pound and then estimate the number of seeds in the “Mystery Pumpkin” which weighs 15 pounds. The person who guesses the closest to the actual number wins a prize. Then, depending on the number of seeds in the mystery pumpkin, students will talk about their hypotheses to see if they could or could not mathematically predict the seed count.
Students also had pumpkin themed lessons in math, social studies and language arts.  Some other pumpkin lessons included: Solving pumpkin riddles using number/letter keys to solve the riddles; Halloween version of Deal or No Deal with Halloween sentences to find the parts of speech using the SmartBoard; frosted and ate pumpkin cookies. In math, students used their math skills to cut a pumpkin bread recipe in half.

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