TOPS #39 Green Thumbs Corn & Beans

This unit blends science, math, language and art into a single grand learning experience. There is much to observe, to calculate, to write and to draw. Your students will grow popcorn and pinto beans (the kind you buy in any grocery store), then track plant development in their personal daily journals. Over 5 weeks your class will construct their own lab equipment, compile a complete written and visual record of growth; graph daily height and weight gains; study how leaves photosynthesize; examine the role of cotyledons in plant development; learn to distinguish monocots from dicots in flowering plants, and much more.