Flowers, Fruit, Seeds and Peppers!

Learning about peppers was a great intro to flowers and seeds. The kids learned about flowers and how they make seeds. Sometimes flowers turn into fruit, which is a suitcase for seeds. We talked about how peppers start out as flowers, and then turn into a fruit with seeds inside of them. We got to do some great hands on activities in this lesson. We broke into three groups.



The first rotation was in the Discovery Garden where kids went on a flower scavenger hunt. They studied different types of flowers, their names and details and got to pick one or two and talked about their favorites. With a little time at the end they read A Fruit is a Suitcase for Seeds.

 Another Rotation explored the pulp where the seeds are made in mature peppers with magnifying glasses and talked about their observations. 

Seeds were harvested from the pulp and planted in composted soil in recycled seedling packs. 

The seeds came up like gangbusters in the greenhouse. This shot was taken 8 weeks later.

 In our third Rotation kids worked together to make delicious veggie ranch dip with Chef Giovanna and ate the peppers!