Corn is an interesting subject for young children to explore because it grows ears in many forms, the seeds are easy to see and handle, and it is familiar to most children in one food product or another. Therefore, science activities about corn are easily integrated with social studies and language arts units because of the importance of corn to human civilizations. Exposure to ideas such as early people living in a different manner than the children do now, the spread of plants around the globe, and growth of this important plant go together in this activity about corn.