Inside a fruit or veggie....how many seeds?

 This has got to be one of my favorite plant lessons because involves math, science, and a yummy snack at the end. For this lesson I brought a peach, avocado, bell pepper, tomato, melon, and an apple to class. We discuss that inside fruits are seeds. We made estimates of how many seeds were in each fruit or veggie. Once I cut them in half under the document camera, they were shocked by some. I placed the cores of each one on a plate for stations and kept all the good parts for a healthy snack at the end. Students had to come up with strategies of how to best count the seeds. When it came to the bell pepper they knew that counting by ones was going to take forever. They quickly started grouping the seeds into groups of tens. By the end of the activity the bell pepper had the most seeds and we accounted for over four hundred seeds. The least favorite to count was the tomato and the melon because the guts from these were pretty slimy! We kept a record of what the inside of each fruit or veggie looked like with the seeds attached and how many seeds were in each. Check out the photos from this fun lesson.