Fruit or Vegetable?

As part of our plant unit, students are learning about the differences between fruits and vegetables. You’d be surprised at how confusing categorizing fruits and vegetables can be! To help guide their understanding, I showed students this informative video:

We played a quick game of thumbs up if this is a fruit or thumbs down if it is a vegetable. Then students wrote a description of what is a fruit and what is a vegetable in their Plant Notebooks.

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Did you learn anything new from this post? 🙂