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TOPS Learning Systems : Green Thumbs: Corn and Beans #39

by Ron Marson Author

(From Amazon): 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. INTRODUCTION * Getting Ready * Gathering Materials * Long Range Objectives * Gaining a Whole Perspective TEACHING NOTES (5 weeks) REPRODUCIBLE LINE MASTERS * 11 pages of Lab Instructions * 12 pages of Journal Cut-Outs * Take-Home Test ( 39) Green Thumbs: CORN AND BEANS requires no special lab equipment or unusual supplies. Just photocopy the lab pages, gather simple materials (like pop corn, pinto beans, milk cartons and paper towels), and you re ready to explore TOPS Learning Systems hands-on. Publisher: TOPS Learning Systems, Inc., 1997 Author: Ron Marson Grade: 4-12 Format: 80 pages, paperback ISBN: 0-941008-49-5

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Additional Details

Resource Type
Book
ISBN
9780941008495
Print Status
In Print
Activity for Days
17
Pages
80
Suggested Grades
3rd - 8th
Publisher
TOPS Learning Systems
Edition
Revised
Copyright
1997

Activity for Days

  • -4 Make a Plant Journal
  • -3 Build a Balance
  • -2 Make a Pole Planter & Storage Mat
  • -1 Make a Bean Map
  • 0 Make a Milk Carton Seed Tray
  • 3 Begin Your Journal
  • 5 Look Inside, Journal
  • 6 Plant Your Pole Planter, Journal
  • 7 Prepare Your Journal for Daily Drawings, Journal
  • 10 Plant Your Seed Tray
  • 12 Weigh Numbered Seeds, Journal
  • 14 Add Water, Journal
  • 17 Tie a Bean and Corn Sprout, Journal
  • 18 Compare Leaves
  • 20 Study Cotyledons, Journal
  • 21 Study Plant Growth, Journal
  • 25

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