Lesson Plans: Growing Lima Beans (3-5, Science) - 0 views
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Growing Lima Beans
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All right guys, if you had fun doing this activity today you can try your own experiment at home. You can do this activity with different types of seeds. You can also do the potato suspended in water as well as the carrot top grown in soil.
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An extension for this activity would be to have students who seem to be enjoying it but are moving ahead of the group try the growing experiment with different plants. These students could then compare the lima bean growth to that of other plants. Students who are struggling, or maybe who have had a plant die could work together in groups and share plants to observe and experiment with. 4.NS.7 Keep accurate records in a notebook during investigations and communicate findings to others using graphs, charts, maps and models through oral and written reports. 4.3.4 Describe a way that a given plant or animal might adapt to a change arising from a human or non-human impact on its environment.
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This site shows what should be included on student worksheets for this activity, and it also tells you what you should be doing every day for this unit of study. This allows students to see first-hand the different parts of plants and to observe plant growth as it happens. I like that it includes both dissection of the seed, or plant embryo, and growth of a plant. Students should use their science notebooks to record the stages of growth of the plants and to make scientific drawings of what they see.