Winter Squash: Sink or Float?

• This hands-on lesson about squash includes directions for a squash taste test, a squash buoyancy test, a vocabulary list, and worksheets to print for your students.
• Students will enjoy this fun lesson, which can span one or two 50-minute periods.

Positives

• This lesson will provide students with lasting impressions.
• Students will get to test their hypotheses about squash buoyancy, taste several varieties of winter squash, and learn about these vegetables.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Several materials are required to complete all the components of this lesson, including copies of worksheets, baking and kitchen supplies, several varieties of squash, and plastic containers filled with water. 

Differentiation

• This activity would work well in a health class discussing nutrition, a science class working on density or biodiversity, and language arts classes reading non-fiction.
• It would work well as station work or lab work, where students complete a portion of the lesson and rotate through each of the stations. 
• As an extension, have students complete the density test with other produce.

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