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.
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More Than a Seed lesson plan
More Than a Seed slideshow
crop sequencing photos
Supplemental Resources
Background Information
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
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
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