Pumpkin Math and Science
Fifth grade classrooms enjoyed some October Science activities at George Fischer Middle School.
The students utilized the scientific method to see if there was a relationship between the physical characteristic of a pumpkin -- its height, weight or circumference -- and the number of seeds inside a pumpkin. The students collected and analyzed the data, even though some of it was quite messy. After much discussion, and a lot of laughs, the students determined that there was no clear relationship between the dimensions of a pumpkin and its number of seeds.
Nonetheless, the student had an enormous amount of fun coming up with that conclusion.