PUMPKIN SEED PROJECT
2015
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St. Ignatius of Antioch School
Grade 1B Mrs. Hastings
We had a lot of fun counting our seeds. We grouped them by fives and then counted. We also read some books about pumpkins and how they grow.
Currier Memorial School Danby, Vermont
We counted 740 seeds in our pumpkin. The closest estimate was 699 seeds. That student got to bring the pumpkin home. These are our small pumpkins that we decorated for our fourth grade classroom.
Travis Family Homeschool, Ontario, CA
My boys are busy searching for the perfect pumpkin for our project.
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Gillespie Park Elementary School, Greensboro, NC
Our first grade class counted 330 seeds in our pumpkin. Our pumpkin was donated by a local pumpkin patch.
Mrs. K’s Class from Buena Park, CA
We will be doing our project next week and are also excited!
Mrs. Beck’s First Grade Class from N.J.
We will be doing the project next week. We are so excited!!
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Travis Family Homeschool, Ontario, CA
They are estimating how many seeds are in our pumpkin then scooping out seeds.
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Travis Family Homeschool, Ontario, CA
We counted by 5's, then made piles of 100 until we had our total of 440 seeds!!!
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Eagle Creek Academy/Michigan
Mrs. Widgren’s Jr. Kindergarten class estimated, weighed, floated, tasted, counted drew and graphed as part of this project.
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Eagle Creek Academy/ Michigan
Mrs. Pinson and Mrs. King’s Kindergarten with Mrs. Gamache in Technology/STEM class
The kindergarten class counted 335 seeds in their class pumpkin.
Each K-3 class also did some stem extension activities - here they are collaborating on building a structure using candy pumpkins and toothpicks.
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Eagle Creek Academy/ Michigan
Mrs. Minton’s First grade with Mrs. Gamache in Technology/STEM class
The first graders broke into groups and counted the seeds in four pumpkins. Their totals were: 320,508,444,442 with an average of 429.
Here we are skyping with Tiffany Everett’s class in San Diego.
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Eagle Creek Academy/ Michigan
Mrs. Passon’s Second Grade with Mrs. Gamache in Technology/STEM class
The Second Grade Class counted 505 seeds.
We also made pumpkin glyphs during our collaborative project.
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Eagle Creek Academy/ Michigan
Mrs. Rorai’s Third grade with Mrs. Gamache in Technology/STEM class.
They had the most seeds out of each participating class - they had 519 seeds.
We also used the data from all the classes that participated to create graphs. K-2 made a group graph and 3rd grade learned how to make a graph using MS Excel.
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Eagle Creek Academy/ Michigan
Extending the Pumpkin Seed Project at Eagle Creek Academy
Since we are a JK-8th grade school and JK-3rd was participating, the 4-8th go involved in the pumpkin theme and created Punkin Chunkin catapults. We extended the project to the parents on Saturdays are working on building life size catapults.
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Rockfish Elementary/Hope Mills NC
We have 19 fabulous first graders. Our pumpkin will be dissected on Thursday! We can’t wait to share with everyone. Have fun!
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Scott Elementary School
Bilingual Third Grade Class
We are excited to share our results. This was a fun project that tied in well with our skip counting skills and teamwork abilities.
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Lady’s Island Elementary/ SC
~ Mrs. Walker’s 1st Grade ~
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Richmond Elementary/Vermont
Kindergarten students had a fun time separating the pumpkin seeds from the gooey parts. We counted and counted! We couldn’t believe how many seeds were in our pumpkin.
Students planted a few seeds in plastic bags with wet paper towels. They predict that the pumpkins will grow so big that the bags will explode!
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Our Prek-k class has six students.
We did a lot of activities about pumpkins this year!
We really like the Pumpkin Seed Project!
It is fun to make predictions and check after for the results.
We had a lot of seeds!!!
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Grosse Ile School, Magdalen Islands, QC, Canada
West Elementary, Emmetsburg, IA
We decided to count our pumpkin seeds by groups of 10 and found out our pumpkin had 402 seeds!
We are a kindergarten class with 17 students in it. Everyone got the chance to count out 2 groups of 10 by themselves and then we finished the rest as a class.
Our lowest guess was 31 and our highest guess was 1,100.
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Legend Springs Elem./ Glendale Az
The kids loved this project. It was fun and took a lot of thought on how to organize the seeds into groups to easily count. Lots of laughter and memories made today.
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Sunset Elementary School/Miami, Fl
Our class had a great time pulling out the
seeds and counting them by grouping
them into piles of ten.
Legend Springs Elem./Glendale, AZ
We had a great time with our pumpkins. Our 19 lb. pumpkin had 520 seeds inside with lots of seeds sprouting inside of the pumpkin!
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We are a Grade One class from St. Mark Catholic school in London Ontario Canada. There was so much counting to do today! We had two pumpkins. One had 511 seeds and the other had 530. Tomorrow we will cook and eat our 1041 pumpkin seeds!
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Sacred Heart School/ Kingston, MA
We worked in partner groups to count seeds by arranging them into groups of ten. Each student was able to take a small bag of clean seeds home to either bake or plant.
Central Lutheran -
New Haven, IN
We are a class of 15 first graders. We had 2 pumpkins to do our project with. First, we estimated how many seeds were in each one. Then, we put the seeds in groups of 10 to help us count them. Pumpkin A had 795 seeds while Pumpkin B had 589. We then used the seeds to do an experiment and figure out if garlic or salt was a better topping. This was so much fun!!!
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St. Gregory School/ Ottawa, ON, Canada
We are a group of fantastic Grade 2’s in Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. We made reasonable estimates and came up with some great counting strategies to count all those pumpkin seeds! We counted 545 pumpkin seeds in total.
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Shiloh Point Elementary/ Cumming, GA
Mrs. Godfrey’s class first estimated the number of seeds in the small pumpkins. Then, we used different strategies to count the seeds. Our numbers of seeds per pumpkin were: 379, 507, 512, 558, 695. Check out more details about our project on Twitter! https://twitter.com/bethbranhamgod1/status/660147022826180608/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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Glenbrook Elementary, Pulaski, WI
Our class has 17 1st graders. We had 2 “official” pumpkins that both weighed 2 pounds and one “Unofficial” pumpkin of 18 ½ pounds. Weighing, predicting, and counting our seeds were just a few of the fun things we did! We found it very interesting that our smallest pumpkin had more seeds than the large one! We also enjoyed comparing our results with Mrs. White’s class in IN!
Reeds Road School,New Jersey
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St. Cecilia Catholic School/ Ottawa, ON
Mrs. Proulx’s Grade 2 Class
We had 3 different sized pumpkins. We made a guess about how many seeds in each. After scooping out the seeds and looking at piles, we revised and made a new estimate. Finally we worked together in groups to count the seeds in each pumpkin. Our results were surprising.
St. Ignatius of Antioch School
Yardley Pa Grade 1B Mrs. Hastings
We had a lot of fun counting our seeds. We grouped the seeds by five and then counted them. We also read several books about pumpkins and how they grow.
Happy Halloween!
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Outlook Elementary/Saskatchewan
Our Grade 3 class invited the whole school to estimate the number of seeds. We will see who was the closest on Friday. We counted 397 seeds in a 2 pound pumpkin and 331 seeds in a 4 pound pumpkin. Then we baked and ate the seeds. We learned that the size of the pumpkin does not always indicate the number of seeds inside.
Stonehaven E.S. in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Mrs. Hulse’s Grade 1 class measured, weighed and estimated the seeds in our 3 pumpkins.
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Stonehaven E.S. in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
We cut them open and counted them. We put them in groups of 10, that was the easiest way to count. Then we shared our results via Google Hangouts with Mrs. DeGroot’s and Ms Flicek’s classes in the United States. It was very exciting. We loved when Ms Flicek read us all a story!
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Edward D. Sadler Elementary/ North Carolina
We visited a pumpkin patch. Our teacher bought us a pumpkin. We counted 523 pumpkin seeds. We found that a pumpkin will float in the water. We said the insides felt: slimey, squishy, wet, good, and soft.
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Stormonth/ Wisconsin- Mrs. Ahles’ 2nd Grade Class
We had so much fun with our Pumpkins Seed Project! We discussed a strategy to count our seeds and decided to use groups of 5. We worked in small teams and had a “goop free” data person. Our pumpkin weighed 5 pounds and had 625 seeds. Way more than we had estimated!
St. Mary’s Visitation Elm Grove, WI
Our K5 classes weighed 2 pumpkins and made a prediction if each would float or sink and tested our predictions. We also counted the seeds in each pumpkin. The pumpkin weighing 2 pounds had 525 seeds! The pumpkin weighing 4 pounds had 441!
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Reeds Road School/ Galloway Twp., NJ
Our second grade class loved the Pumpkin Project! We used two pumpkins and named our exploration teams; the Orange Ghost Pumpkins and the Jack-o-Lanterns. Each team excavated through the “pulp” and created arrays to help count the seeds.
Orange Ghost Pumpkins = 340 seeds
Jack-o-Lanterns = 330 seeds
Iroquois West Elementary/ Illinois
We were very surprised to find out that our pie pumpkin had 497 seeds!!
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St. Peter Lutheran School - Illinois
A total of 40 1st graders and 14 parents/grandparents dug into 5 pumpkins. The insides were “gross” and “disgusting!” We were very surprised that a 12 pound pumpkin had only 165 seeds! And an 11 pound pumpkin had 640 seeds! We named our pumpkins and ate toasted pumpkin seeds the following week!
Holland Middle School/Baldwin Park, CA
Our pumpkin weighed 5 pounds and had 536 seeds. We counted by 5’s, made groups of 25, and then groups of 100. We did not come close with our guesses, but we had fun counting together.
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Stormonth: Mrs. Mullen’s 1st Graders- Fox Point, WI
What a clever group of first graders! We worked together to decide how we should count our seeds. Groups of 10 was our decision. We then needed to figure out how to accurately count all of our groups. We decided NOT to put them all in a pile after we counted each group, because then we couldn’t do what mathematicians do: they CHECK their work! One of our friends put a ponytail holder around one group of 10. This gave us the idea to circle AND number them as we counted! (Seed totals: 393/295) Next week we’ll jointly construct a How-To text, capturing the steps of our process as a way to begin our new writing unit! We’ll also eat our seeds. Thank you for this GREAT project!
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PUMPKIN
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North Crawford/Soldiers Grove, WI
Mrs. Klema’s 5K Class
We used the seeds from my after school group pumpkin carving for counting. That way I could wash and dry them to make it easier to count.
As you can suspect all guesses of the number of seeds was way off. A pumpkin weighing 9 pounds contained 532 seeds. We counted by 10’s to get the total.
Each one of my 5K students chose a small pumpkin to clean out. I only had one squeamish student who did not enjoy pulling the “guts” out. They each designed a face and I proceeded to carve. They will take their jacks home for Halloween.
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Lesterville Elementary - Lesterville Missouri
We had a great time digging into our pumpkin. We counted 380 seeds inside!
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Orange Glen Elementary/ Escondido
Miss Russo’s Kindergarten class counted 220 seeds in our pumpkin. We took turns counting 10 seeds at a time all the way to 220!!
West Elementary/Daingerfield, Texas
Mrs. Spann sliced the pumpkin in two pieces. The students each counted 10 seeds into a small bag. Some students had to count again to get our 263 seeds. Lots of fun digging through the pulp.
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Cascade Christian School - BC
Our Grade 1 Class counted 494 pumpkin seeds in our pumpkin. We sorted the seeds into groups of tens. Our class pumpkin came from our field trip to the Apple Barn earlier in the month. We are now going to roast and eat the pumpkin seeds.
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P.S. 193- Brooklyn, New York
Class K-213 completed a unit about pumpkins. We learned how they grow, used our five senses to investigate the pumpkin and even did a fun art activity with the seeds!
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Gallatin Elementary - Downey, California
We are a 1st grade class. We worked together to create a Jack-o-lantern. We scooped out all the seeds and pulp. We counted the pumpkin seeds. We decided it was easier to count them in groups of 10. 735 are a lot of seeds. We voted and analyzed our data to figure out how to cut our Jack-o-lantern.
P.S. Our teacher did all the cutting!
Bayview School/ Owen Sound, Ontario
My grade 2s and 3s were so excited to cut into our pumpkins! Before doing so, we came up with 18 different adjectives to describe the outside and the stem of the pumpkins (which we wrote down to use in our writing next week). We did the same for the inside after cutting them open. What a great way to work on our language, number sense, problem solving, and teamwork skills while having a little fun!
The results for 2 of our pumpkins were:�1. Weight = 2 lbs; Estimate = 50 seeds; Total = 191.�2. Weight = 1.5 lbs. Estimate = 90 seeds; Total = 470.
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Rye Elementary/ Rye, NH.
Our third grade class had a great time estimating the total amount of pumpkin seeds in our 3 pumpkins. They figured out the circumference, weight, number of creases and then started counting. Most groups counted by 10’s. They determined how many groups of 10 then multiplied. Our final results were:
Pumpkin 1 (10.5 pounds & 512 seeds), pumpkin 2 (10.2 pounds & 554 seeds) and pumpkin 3 (10.5 pounds & 530 seeds).
They also loved dressing up their pumpkins!
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Richmond Elementary School/ Vermont U.S.A.
Second grade students in Mrs. Riggs’ class were very excited to participate in this project! One student in our class grew a pumpkin and brought it in to share. Our pumpkin weighed 7.8 pounds. After estimating how many seeds we thought the pumpkin might have, we worked together to count the seeds in our pumpkin. We counted in groups of ten and found that our pumpkin had 555 seeds. We also skyped with Mrs, Thompson’s class in Ardmore, Kansas. We enjoyed making new friends and sharing our data!
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St. Gregory / Ottawa, ON
Our grade one class enjoyed participating in this project! We started off by writing our pumpkin ‘wonderings’. Our grade 4 students helped us answer our questions towards the end of our inquiry.
Students enjoyed estimating and counting the seeds in our pumpkin. We practised counting by 5s and 10s.
Students were then given a design challenge and voted on their favourtie pumpkin design which we then carved in our pumpkin!
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Queen Victoria/Hamilton, Ontario
Our class had a great time measuring, weighing, scooping and counting the pumpkin seeds.
Our largest pumpkin was 6 lbs. and had 534 seeds and the pumpkin with the smallest amount of seeds weighed 4 lbs.
Montgomery Elementary/ Montgomery, New York
21 Students, 1 Pumpkin, 688 SEEDS!! Watching the faces when they touched the “guts”.....Priceless!
Hilton Head Island International Baccalaureate Elementary School
Hilton Head Island, SC
2nd Grade Chinese Immersion students in Dr. Stempel and Ms. Bin’s class had a great time doing pumpkin math both in the English and Chinese Language!
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Oaktree Elementary- Goodrich, Michigan
We each had our own pumpkins. First we counted the ribs, then we measured the circumference. We did a sink and float experiment with our pumpkins. We all counted and the average number of seeds was 322 seeds. You can view our Animoto here: Pumpkin Project
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H.L. Johnson Elementary/ Royal Palm Beach, FL
We had so much fun with this project. We had 58 students and 9 pumpkins to investigate. Our average was 458 seeds!
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Legend Springs/ Glendale
Our class had an amazing time!! We had 35 seeds in our pumpkin.
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