
Students will explore the steps of crop production, learn what seeds need to germinate, plant corn & soybean seeds, and discover how those crops impact their own lives.
Supplemental Resources
Background Information
- Corn Fact Sheet
- Soybean Fact Sheet
- Corn Ag Mag (request a classroom set from DeKalb County Farm Bureau)
- Soybean Ag Mag (request a classroom set)
Worksheets
- My Growing Seeds booklet – students monitor their growing seeds then draw and describe their observations in a booklet
- Get Growing – students write and color the natural resources plants need and identify the things people also need to grow
Resource Kits (available as supply kits from DeKalb County Farm Bureau)
- Farm Charm Supplies – make charm necklaces that symbolize farm features
- Beany Baby Supplies – grow live seed germination necklaces
- Soil Sam Supplies – create creatures with live grass as hair
Related Lessons & Activities online
- Garden in a Glove – germinate vegetable seeds in a clear plastic glove
- Bean Seed Cycle – create a book with pages representing parts of a bean seed
- The Seed Match – conduct hands-on investigation of fruits and vegetables
- Seeds, Miraculous Seeds – examine the parts of bean and corn seeds
Books in your school library (titles that have been donated to school libraries in DeKalb County)
- Corn by Margaret Hall
- Corn by Elaine Landau
- Corn Belt Harvest by Raymond Bial
- From Kernel to Corncob by Ellen Weiss
- The Super Soybean by Raymond Bial
- Beans (Life Cycles) by Julie Murray
Books on loan (available on loan from DeKalb County Farm Bureau)
- One Bean by Anne Rockwell
- Oh Say Can You Seed (Dr. Seuss) by Bonnie Worth
- Why the Brown Bean Was Blue by Susan M. Pankey