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Background Information‐ The more vibrant the color, often the higher in nutritional value it’s content. Filling your plate with a variety of colorful insures a more balanced, higher quality meal. Dark green vegetables usually have the best nutrient value.

Snap or beans are naturally low in calories and provide an excellent source of daily fiber for beneficial dietary health. Green beans provide and minerals that have been shown to thwart cancer causing agents. There is some research to indicate a relationship between aging and green bean consumption.

Herbie is the main character in this vegetable series. His mother, Violet is teaching him how to be healthy by eating foods that have rich and value.

Next Generation Sunshine State Standards‐ SC.3.L.14.1, SC.2.L.14.1, SC.3.L.14.2, LACC.2.W.3,

Engage 1. Display green beans. Ask student to make a list of describing words for the beans.

Explore 1. Introduce the character Herbie and discuss his quest to learn about foods that are good for your body. 2. Look carefully at the picture. Herbie and his mother are picking beans from a vine. Discuss how some plants grow on vines and other plants do not. 3. Provide an assortment of beans (dried bean soup mix) for students to sort/compare/contrast.

Explain 1. Use the vegetable sheet to help students discover the names of the different types of beans.

Elaborate 1. "In a Snap"‐ Make a list of things you can do in less than a minute. 2. The “pod” is a protective covering for the seeds. Create a protective covering for an eraser. 3. The “pod” is also a transportation vehicle for the seed. Draw a picture of how the seed pods are transported. 4. Make a bean collage. 5. Plant bean seeds. 6. Find bean recipes and prepare a dish.

Evaluate 1. Complete the stomach word search by locating the words and coloring the peas. 2. Learn about the organs in the digestive system and then make a list of them. 3. For one week, keep a chart of the vegetables eaten daily 4. Match the bean sort to the bean names on the handout.

Literature connection Ruth Kraus‐The Carrot Seed, Lois Ehlert‐ Planting a Rainbow, Eve Bunting‐Sunflower House, Lois Ehlert’‐Growing Vegetable Soup, Malachy Doyle‐Jody's Beans, Grace Lin. Charlesbridge‐The Ugly Vegetables, George Shannon‐Busy in the Garden

References‐ http://science.howstuffworks.com/search.php?terms=green+beans http://www.quitehealthy.com/nutrition‐facts/beans/110541.html www.livestrong.com/article/358441‐nutritional‐value‐in‐sugar‐snap‐peas‐green‐beans/#ixzz2422S1QzY http://www.nutrition‐and‐you.com/green_beans.html