All About Dry Edible Beans

With each Flat Aggie report, I’ll be putting together a list additional resources, websites, recipes, books, and activities.  Use this with Flat Aggie’s visit to the thumb of Michigan and A Little House on the Farm as the family harvest dry edible beans.

Classroom Activities & Resources

• From Illinois Ag in the Classroom: The Bean Book. A printable about the inside of a bean. Click on link and scroll down to Soybeans and click on Bean Book.
• From Buggy & Buddy: Seed Dissection
• From North Dakota Ag in the Classroom: Ag Mag about Dry Edible Beans. Click on link, then click on Pulse Crops & Dry Edible Beans in the left hand column.
• From National Ag in the Classroom: The Bean Seed Cycle
• From Fun at Home with Kids: How to color beans for play and art

Books

• Jack in the Beanstalk
• Oh Say Can you Seed (Dr. Seuss)
• Seed, Soil, Sun by Cris Peterson w/ additional lessons

 

Web Resources

• Michigan Bean Commission
• Rediscover Dairy (Although this is a dairy page, this particular link has great information about beans as well as and teacher resources.)
• The Bean Institute