Kindergarden - Plants

156 Plants: Supplemental Guide 7A | Plants and People

 Show image 6A-5: Strawberry plant

Buzz, buzz! Over here! Can you tell which plant I am buzzing next to?

This is a strawberry plant. This strawberry plant has both blossoms

and fruit. Some of the fruit is ripe enough to eat. Yum!

[Have students identify the blossoms and fruit.]

 Show image 6A-6: Strawberry

Look at this ripe strawberry. You can see the seeds all over the

outside of the strawberry. The seeds in this strawberry are so small

that people can eat them along with the fruit.

Tell your partner about how the seeds of the apple tree and cherry

tree are different from the seeds of a strawberry plant. Then tell your

partner about how the seeds are the same.

[Allow thirty seconds for students to talk. Call on two partner pairs to share

their answer.]

 Show image 6A-7: Watermelon

Buzz, buzz! Here’s one last plant. I love to drink the scrumptious

nectar of this plant’s blossom, too. Do you know what the fruit of this

plant is called?

[Pause for answers.]

It’s called a watermelon.

 Show image 6A-8: Watermelon slice

Here’s a watermelon that has been sliced open. Can you see the

black seeds inside? The seeds of the watermelon are on the inside of

the watermelon with the red, juicy fruit that people like to eat. People

spit out the seeds when they are eating the red, squishy part of the

watermelon.

What do you think the watermelon seeds can grow into?

• The watermelon seeds can grow into watermelon plants.