Science Activity

 

 

Growing Lima Beans

Materials:

Water 
Several Lima Beans 
Paper Towels 
Plastic bag

Directions:

1)Line the plastic bag with the paper towels. Pour enough water in the bag to wet the towels completely. Place several lima beans about halfway down between the paper towel and the plastic bag.

2)Keep the paper towels moist. Check the bag every day to see if more water should be added. After a few days, one or more of the beans will start to germinate.

3)Talk about the roots growing down and the stem growing up, how the bean is a seed which uses water to grow, and the process is called germination.