The second group of plants we are studying are the angiosperms - plants with flowers and fruits. Today each fifth grader was given a different fruit to cut open and explore the seeds inside. We had a kiwi, watermelon, cantaloupe, pomegranate, pear, star fruit, mango, persimmon, apple, pineapple, orange, cucumber, lemon, tomato, green pepper, Asian pear, lime, grapefruit and avocado.
It's always fun to get into the fruit verses vegetable debate, and it takes some convincing to get fifth graders to believe tomatoes, cucumbers, and green peppers are really fruits. They now know that a fruit is a fleshy covering for seeds. If it has seeds, it's a fruit!
After our dissection, I cut up all the fruits for the kids to eat. Many of them tried something new today.
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