The Great Pumpkin Inquiry

On Thursday we created a "How to Carve a Pumpkin" piece of procedural writing. We then followed our directions to create 4 excellent Jack O' Lanterns! The students predicted which pumpkin they believed would have the most seeds and estimated how many seeds were in their group's pumpkin. A few students were pretty close with their guesses! Each group created a strategy to count their seeds, some counted by groups of 5's, while others counted by 10's and 20's.  Their last task was to solve how many seeds our class had all together. They followed their problem solving criteria and discovered that we had 1700 seeds all together! It was an awesome day!