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The ancient Romans grew pears and introduced them to other parts of Europe with the rise of the Roman Empire. Europeans brought the pear to the Americas. They were brought west across the United States by people headed to the 1849 California Gold Rush. Unscramble the letters to reveal what these gold seekers were called:
• There are more than , pears. • In the United States,
varieties of
% of pears are grown in California, Oregon, and Washington. • Pear trees can produce fruit for up to years.
How many pears can you nd here?
You’ll need: • one sliced pear • cream cheese
You can use peanut butter instead of cream cheese.
Spread the cream cheese on a tortilla.
Roll up the wrap and eat it up!
Add the lettuce and pear slices.
• lettuce • tortilla
Put one slice of pear into a bowl of water, one slice in a plastic baggie, and cover the third slice with lemon juice and leave it out. (You can eat the fourth slice!) Wait for 20 minutes and observe.
one pear cut into four slices one plastic baggie one lemon small bowl of water small plate • • • • •
Have you ever opened your lunch bag and found your yummy pear slices have turned brown? Enzymes in your slice of pear cause this to happen. Foods like apples, potatoes, bananas, and pears all have enzymes inside their cells. When these enzymes are exposed to oxygen in the air, the esh of the fruit turns brown. This is called oxidation .
Question: Hypothesis: Observation:
Conclusion:
Which slice of pear will turn brown first?
(What you think the answer is)
Which slice turned brown first?
(What you learned from performing this experiment)
pear in water pear in plastic pear with lemon juice
Content on this page adapted from Network for a Healthy California Harvest of the Month program and www.usapears.com
© Vicki Whiting September 2026
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