Pinecone investigation

The green group is preparing to make bird feeders from pine cones with their reading buddies. Ms. Behnke helped us by going to get some of the abundance of cones from our spruce trees outside our windows.

The cones were very tightly closed. We brought them indoors and we have discovered that they have opened up in the warmth. 

Once they opened up, we noticed tons of “helicopter” seeds come out. We are hoping to plant them later.

We decided to see what would happen if we put the opened cone in cold again. We speculated that it would close again. We put some in a jar of cold water. Sure enough....

The students then asked to see what would happen if we put them in hot water. Nature provides the best experiments!