Friday

Rocket points at a cucumber in the bowl. "This is a vegetable. Easy!"

Raven shakes her head. "What do you notice inside a cucumber? Seeds!"

Nova circles the bowl. "Ask where the seeds are," she hints. "That tells you the part."

Rocket blinks. "If it holds seeds, is it a fruit?"

Flowers are important for making seeds.

Bright petals help attract pollinators, like bees and butterflies.

After a flower is pollinated, part of it swells into a fruit.

A fruit holds and protects the seeds growing inside.

Many fruits also help seeds travel to new places.

Some foods we call vegetables are really fruits.

Cucumbers and bean pods are fruits, because they hold seeds.

An apple is a fruit too. Its seeds grow inside it.

Every seed holds a tiny plant called an embryo.

A seed coat covers and protects the tiny plant.

Seeds can travel by wind, water or animals.

Your bean has had four days to wake up.

Look closely and record what you see.

Fantastic plant scientists! Tomorrow is Grow It Day: a plant-part hunt in the kitchen.