Durian Coconut and Passion Fruit Compare

The grade one sorting sheet, grown up. Six properties, measured where possible, recorded in a table.

Mass, size, seed count, skin thickness, smell and taste. Seed count is where it gets interesting because a passion fruit has dozens and a coconut has one, and children reason about why almost immediately.

Weigh them. A kitchen scale costs very little and turns heavy and light into numbers.

The page has the table, the six properties, and a conclusion asking which fruit is best at surviving a fall from a tree. That question has a real answer, the coconut, and children arrive at it from their own data rather than being told.