growing pumpkins as detectives

Growing Pumpkins

You are the Detective!

Which picture shows real pumpkin flowers? Turn and talk – which picture is real?

How do you know?Hessel, Dominique. Freemages.com. Freemages.com, 03 Dec. 2011. Web. 10 Aug. 2013.http://www.freemages.co.uk/browse/photo-1477-red-rose.html>. edited

Edible Plant Project. WordPress and Atahualpa, 28 July 2008. Web. 9

Aug. 2013. <http://edibleplantproject.org/seminolepumpkin/>

This is real. Pumpkin flowers are yellow.

Edible Plant Project. WordPress and Atahualpa, 28 July 2008. Web. 9 Aug. 2013. <http://edibleplantproject.org/seminolepumpkin/>

Which picture shows pumpkin ready to be picked? Turn and talk – which picture is real?

How do you know?

Picture: West, Liz. "Apple Tree." Flikr.com. Flikr.com, 19 Oct. 2005. Web. 10 Aug. 2013. http://www.flickr.com/photos/calliope/54070473/ edited with pumpkins.

Picture: Hagemann, Judy. "Pumpkins in Field." Pics4Learning. Tech4Learning, Sept. 2008. Web. 9 Aug. 2013

This is real.Pumpkins grow on vines, not trees.

Picture: Hagemann, Judy. "Pumpkins in Field." Pics4Learning. Tech4Learning, Sept. 2008. Web. 9 Aug. 2013

Now look carefully at this picture. Is this how a pumpkin grows?

Turn and talk. Tell how you know.

Sobek, Tomas. "Green Pumpkin." Gallerymenalto.com. Gallerymenalto.com Codex.gallery2.org, 27 Mar. 2013. Web.

10 Aug. 2013. <http://tomassobekphotography.co.nz/gallery3/index.php/Other/Food/130327_Green_pumpkin>.

This is real. Pumpkins grow on a vine. They do not have faces.

You were great detectives today. You showed you know how a

pumpkin grows.