Apple Science!

We have really made good use of the apples that we picked on our trip to the orchard.  We learned that scientists ask questions, notice details, draw what they see, make predictions, count accurately and record their findings.  Here is some of the work we've done...


Question #1: ARE SMALLER APPLES MORE GREEN THAN BIGGER APPLES?
We wondered if the smaller apples in our collection would be more green than the larger apples.  We thought this might be true because, at the orchard, we learned that red apples sometimes have parts that are green.  These parts did not get as much sun as the red parts of the apple.  We think apples need sun to grow and so the smaller apples might be more green. 


 So we sorted our apples into two groups, big and small.  We examined the apples to see if the smaller ones were more green. 


We noticed that  The smaller apples were more green than the bigger apples. 

The cubes show how many apples were MOSTLY green.

Question #2:  DO ALL APPLES HAVE TH SAME NUMBER OF SEEDS?  DO BIG APPLES HAVE MORE SEEDS THAN SMALL APPLES?
We wondered because bigger apples can hold more seeds.  We thought that we would find more seeds in our big apples than in our small apples. 
So we cut our apples open to count the seeds inside.  Here are some pictures of us at work...

We noticed that all apples do NOT have the same number of seeds.  A small apple can have more seeds than a big apple.  In fact, one of our small apples had the most seeds...14!  That's the same as the number of kids in our class!

We tasted three different kinds of apples: red, yellow and green.  We noticed that most of the kids in room 3 liked YELLOW apples the best. 

There has been a lot of great science happening in room 3!  Next up?  BATS!!