Some Great JELLY BEAN LINKS to visit OFFSITE!

Check out THE ORIGINAL JELLY BELLY BEAN Page!

Stop by VPW to see if you can pick up one of their free videos, including the one I used to teach this lesson plan "Mr. Jelly Belly's NEW Factory Tour". *Note - this is NOT a MUST to utilize the lesson plan!!!!

Check Back Later for additional links!

JELLY BEAN LESSON PLAN

MATH
1. Using some of the 64 jelly bean stickers they sent us with the VPW Video, I created math papers for the kids. The younger 2 I put addition and subtraction on the stickers and the oldest I'm using multiplication and division. Creating worksheets with the stickers makes it a bit more 'fun'. If you don't have stickers you can draw large jelly beans on a sheet and place math problems inside the jelly beans.

2. We used the jelly beans to create a "Jelly Belly Line" on the table. The kids measured the line and then, as we each pulled a certain number of jelly beans out of the line to eat we had to measure it again.
Do YOU know how many jelly beans it takes, end to end, to create a yard of jelly beans?

3. We played "Don't Spill The Beans" using our jelly beans. We already have the Milton Bradley (I think that's who produces it?) Game, instead of using the dried pinto beans to play, we used our Jelly Belly Beans. What did this do as far as school? Well, along with motor skills and just plain fun, we tried to figure out if certain jelly beans seemed to weigh more than others. One of the kids noticed that the watermelon ones really seemed to weigh more when plopped upon the bean pot as opposed to the others so of course, we used that in our strategy of WHEN to place the "heavier" beans on the pot!

SCIENCE
1. Have the kids draw a tongue on a plain sheet of paper.
Now comes the fun part! Each child should have 3-4 cotton swabs.
On a paper plate place a small pile of salt, a small pile of sugar. Using the caps from the bottles, pour a bit of lemon juice in one cap and a bit of vinegar in another. These items are your flavors for your taste bud testing! Wet each swab with water so the salt and sugar stick to it. The other 2 swabs do not need to be wet with water as you will dip these in the lemon juice and the vinegar.
Now, each child closes their eyes as the teacher places different flavors on different parts of the tongue.

What do you find?
The FRONT of the tongue has the SWEET taste buds.
The FRONT SIDES have the SALTY taste buds.
The SIDE BACK has the SOUR taste buds.
The MIDDLE has NO TASTE.
The FAR BACK has the BITTER taste buds.

This was a lot of fun and caused many giggles and chuckles as we discovered sometimes we have NO idea what is going in our mouth until the right taste buds get the flavor!!

Now each child draws a MAP on their paper tongues, writing the words Sweet, Salty, Sour, Bitter and No Taste in the correct areas of the tongue.

ENGLISH and LITERATURE
1. Print out our JELLY BEAN JUMBLE page for some fun for English!
Geared towards Grades 3+

2. Have the children write in their journals or on a writing sheet using the following heading:
I WOULD MAKE A JELLY BEAN THAT TASTES LIKE........

3. Click on our JELLY SPELL PAGE to get some great Jelly Bean Spelling Words! Have the students create sentences with each of the new spelling words. Study the words daily to learn HOW to spell these new words! Spelling lists can be geared towards any age from Grades 1-6

4. Classifying: have younger children classify different flavors of jelly beans by COLOR. Place cups or plates on the table for the children to seperate a bowl of jelly beans into colors.

5. Alphabetizing: Click on our JELLY WORDS Page to print out a list of Jelly Beans that must be put in Alphabetical order! Geared towards Grades 3+

These are just a few of the ideas we did.
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