Gather Materials:

• • Any seeds from your kitchen (beans, lentils, sunflowers, corn seed, rice)

  • Jars or clear containers to see growth

  • Paper towel or cotton ball (something that soaks up water to keep the seeds moist )

  • Water

Place your cotton balls at the bottom of your jars and wet it with water (or use 2-3 folds of paper towels or toilet paper).

• • You want your cotton balls or paper to be soaked with water, pour off any excess water that isn't absorbed.

Place your seeds on the cotton balls; wait and watch...

Keep the cotton moist everyday so the seeds don't dry out and observe their growth.

Write 5 sentences answering the following questions:

• • What did you plant? (1 sentence)

  • If you planted more than one type of seeds, did they grow at different rates? (1 sentence)

  • If you planted more than one seed type, which grew the fastest? (1 sentence)

  • What color was the first growth? (1 sentence)

  • Did the color of the sprout change? (1 sentence)

Gather Materials:

• • Paper

  • Something to draw with such as: pen, markers, crayons, pencils, colored pencils, etc.

Draw the stages of growth of a bean seed (germination) and make sure to label:

• • The Seed Coat

  • First Leaves

  • The Embryo

  • Sprout

  • Roots

Use the examples above for drawing inspiration!