All About Corn : Life Cycle Unit Study

Does your family love corn? My family sure does! Our personal favorite ways to enjoy corn are popcorn and sweet corn (corn on the cob), but we also enjoy cornbread, corn tortillas, and corn muffins now and then. We love to see beautiful corn plants growing in gardens in our area too! But we never really stopped to learn much about corn plants and how they grow.

If you’re like us, then this week’s unit study about the life cycle of a corn plant is for you! Our All About Corn printable pack is a 16-page unit study to help you and your children learn all about corn plants in a fun and memorable way.

What’s Included:

This fun, activity-packed printable includes 16 pages of interactive activities to dive deeper into the life cycle of corn. It includes: full-color graphics, charts and labeling worksheets, Montessori three-part cards, and a nature journal with cover/lined pages. The activities included are all hands-on and involve lots of opportunities for engaging kids through discussion, visual aids, and kinesthetic activities.

Use this chart to show and discuss how life cycles work with plants– and with corn, in particular! After you’ve talked with your kids about the life cycle of corn using this chart, you can cut along the lines and see if they are able to reassemble the life cycle steps in the correct order!

One of the included worksheets can be used to teach kids about the different parts of corn. After you discuss the anatomy of the corn stalk, kids can cut out the names of each part and glue them to the correct place on the chart.

You can also use the Montessori 3-part cards to discuss the difference between a sprout and a seedling with your child(ren) and help them learn to master the difference between these concepts!

Use the journal section at the end of the end of the printable as a space for your child to document what he or she learned. You could also use it to write a favorite recipe involving corn, a short story about corn, or anything else that you find to be a relevant and interesting addition to this study!

This is a great unit study to use if you are interested in making real-world connections to your child’s learning experience! For another fun corn-related activity, click here to go to a tutorial (with free printable instructions) for making your own corn husk dolls or click here for a yummy, corn-themed dinner recipe–Honey BBQ Chicken Skewers with Grilled Corn! You can grab your All About Corn Printable Pack by clicking the link below!