Corn Is Maize: The Gift of the Indians
Corn Is Maize: The Gift of the Indians

    Aliki

    Corn Is Maize: The Gift of the Indians

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    Why this book counts

    • Life Science
    • Environment & Ecology
    • Mystery / Investigation
    • Story / Adventure

    Corn Is Maize tells how Native American farmers nurtured a wild grass into a crop that could be grown, stored, prepared, and shared. The transformation of one plant across generations gives botany and agricultural knowledge a human history rather than presenting corn as a static fact page.

    The science inside

    • Plants & Botany
    • Agriculture & Food Science

    Your child will meet:

    • People can change a crop across generations by saving and planting seeds with useful inherited traits.
    • Growing, drying, storing, and preparing corn are connected parts of an agricultural food system.
    • Indigenous farmers developed and shared the knowledge that made maize a major food crop.

    Use it this way

    Place a corn kernel beside a photograph if food handling is appropriate, and ask your child to trace its path from selected seed to plant, harvest, storage, and one food named in the book. Keep the focus on Indigenous agricultural knowledge and check allergy or choking needs first.

    Parent effort: Quick discussion

    Popcorn, corn on the cob, cornbread, tacos, tamales, and tortillas. All of these and many other good things come from one amazing plant. Aliki tells the story of corn: How Native American farmers thousands of years ago found and nourished a wild grass plant and made it an important part of thier lives. They learned the best ways to grow and store and use its fat yellow kernels. And then they shared this knowledge with the new settlers of America.

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