What are seeds? What do they look like?
What’s that big thing at the center of your peach and plum? What are those little hard brown things inside your apple core? Yes, those are seeds. The baby plants inside them ready to unfold and grow into a new apple, peach or plum tree.
Seeds come in all shapes and sizes and colors. Can you find the seeds in the tomatoes you eat? The melons? Some watermelons have very few seeds these days, but older varieties and other melons still have them. Can you find the seeds in cucumbers? Can you find the pea and the bean seeds in the pea and bean pods? Hint: the peas and beans are the seeds! Another trick question for you: what does corn seed look like? It’s the kernels! 
Here’s another tricky one: what are bread and cookies made of? Flour, right? But what is flour? Ground-up seeds of the plant we call wheat! We also make cookies from oat seeds and bread from rye and barley seeds. They are called grain and are in the grass family.
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