Students worked together on the Friday before Halloween. Each child brought in a pumpkin o donate to the class for us to dissect. The students received a recording sheet for pumpkin mania. The had to first make a hypothesis about what pumpkin would have the most seeds and why? I pre-cut all pumpkin tops beforehand to save on time. The students worked in pairs to remove the "guts" from the pumpkins and collect/count all seeds in the pumpkins and record it. They had to weigh their pumpkins and measure the circumference of their pumpkin. All data was recorded and they even made graphs for how many seeds they thought there were vs. how many their actually were. We all shared our results afterwards.
The parent support was AWESOME!!!
After the children were done, they cleaned up, and handed all seed bags to me. I went home that weekend and made apple cider and roasted pumpkin seeds to bring to class for the kids. What a fun time!
