Science of Apples

It’s hard to get excited about fall topics when the temperature is staying in upper 90s and the pool is still conveniently open. We are taking advantage of our September heat wave when we can. But yesterday Anna was tired after school and not in the mood for the pool, so we proceeded with the planned topic of this week – apples. Anna knows fairly well that apples grow from apple seeds, and we decided to try and grow an apple out of apple seeds. But first we had to decide which apple to grow, so we had a taste test. Our contestants were red delicious, granny smith, and fuji. We whipped up a delicious cream cheese apple dip and proceeded to taste every apple with and without a dip. Fuji was a winner for our taste test for both of us – we agreed that it was both the sweetest and the juiciest. We reviewed the instructions on how to grow an apple from an apple seed on the computer and completed the first step. As the “bonus experiment”, we did a sink/float test on one apple we had left. As I expected, Anna predicted that the apple will sink. She was quite surprised to see it float. When my husband came home, Anna was able to retell him all instructions on growing apples almost word by word despite reading them with me only once. I am curious to see if our apple seeds will sprout – I have two black thumbs, so I am not holding my hopes too high.

I am linking this post to Science Sunday hosted by Adventures in Mommydom.