How Many Seeds In A Pumpkin?

We met up with friends from our Nature Club and did a fun project based on the book 'How Many Seeds In A Pumpkin?' by Margaret McNamara. This a fun book that walks a class through an experiment to see how many seeds are in pumpkins and why that might be.

For our group we started with pumpkin observations, estimations of how many seeds might be in our various pumpkins, then the seeded them and counted, graphed their results and we compared our results. This is a fun project to do this time of year with a small group because it makes the collective data more interesting versus just one or two pumpkins.

A great fall activity!!



Review

Starting out the year begins with a lot of review... which can be mundane and honestly, quiet boring! Holly is reviewing counting verbally working her way up to 300. We started day one with 100. To spice it up a bit she did a little writing review that was very easy and then did a little estimation project with it.

Using a container, an eye dropper and water she had to estimate how full a container would be after 100 drops of water. She had to count them aloud for me (review... shhh!). She made her predictions, set to work after mastering the eye dropper gentleness and discovered her predictions were a bit off. It was a fun little project and she really made no qualm of counting to 100... again!