Bedtime with Mrs. Honeybee.

We just need to do a quick experiment to determine which of the seeds are ready to become oak trees.

First, we fill up all these cups with water.

Then, we put the acorns in the water to see if any of them float.

Did you know the float test also works with eggs?

You can tell which eggs are fresh if they stay at the bottom of the water.

If they float, they're not fresh eggs. Same with these acorns. We're going to be

acorn scientists this afternoon.

Sometimes... this afternoon. Sometimes acorns will be hollowed out by little forest creatures. If so, the little holes will make the acorn float, and we know they won't germinate or sprout.

We need heavy acorns that stay at the bottom of the glass.

Mr. Honeybee picks up the first acorn that's closest to him.

He plops it into the water, and it falls all the way to the bottom.

Little bubbles float up to the top, and we all watch in anticipation. The acorn wobbles side to side at the bottom

of the glass until it slowly begins to float up to the top.

This one won't work.

I'll go next.

Melody B's acorn doesn't even make it to the bottom of the glass

before it begins to float and settles on the surface of the water.

Oh, darn. Okay.

Your turn, little honeybee.

Holding Harold with one arm, you pick up the acorn that's closest to you with the other

hand.

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