This is a fall project that my third graders talk about all year! I've created an updated article about the sport of pumpkin chunkin. Students find the central idea, topic sentences, and text structures represented in the article. They also create a text feature for the article. Afterward, we follow directions to make our own launchers. Students launch paper pumpkins three times, measuring distances each time. They record results, make adjustments, and complete a DLE (draw, label, explain) about