Students at Spitzee School got to have a whole lot of fun Friday Afternoon.

They had the High River fire department on scene to help them smash a whole bunch of pumpkins.

Firefighter Cody Zebedee climbed up the ladder on the fire truck and dropped the pumpkins to the ground as the students screamed out their delight.

Grade 3 Teacher Cathy King says there was a lot of learning going on as well as the thrill of seeing pumpkins drop from the ladder of the fire truck.

"As a class we came up with some questions to do a scientific investigation," said King. "Make a hypothesis, what materials do you need, what's your procedure for your experiment, what observations and data will you gather from it, what can you learn from it, and what conclusions can you have based on your hypothesis and questions."

Next week it will continue with the pumpkins they didn't drop.

"They will measure them, they will weigh them and they will figure out how many pumpkins there are."

So if a pumpkin is five kilograms and the student is 27 kilograms how many pumpkins do you need to get close to your weight, and they do a lot of math problems with the seeds.

King said for the rest of the year she refers back to the pumpkin lessons when starting new experiments.

As for the students they are having so much fun they don't realize how much they have learned.

Roddy MacKillop pointed out the smaller pumpkins made more noise when they hit the ground than the big ones.

"It was cool because the smallest ones made the biggest explosions and the biggest ones didn't make it," said MacKillop.

Brooke Berry added she loved it because of how high it was that they dropped from.

"Some of them didn't splatter and some of them were very, very small," said Berry.