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Lesson Plan

Plant Parts Salad

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This Plant Parts Salad lesson plan also includes:

How are vegetables beneficial to a healthy diet? Have kids examine different types of vegetables, such as zucchini, broccoli, and carrots, and determine which parts of the plant they represent. Then, they taste the vegetables as a class. Yum!

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Concepts
healthy eating, parts of a plant, plants
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Additional Tags
parts of plants, parts of vegetables, healthy diet, class garden, science
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Instructional Ideas
  • If you don't have a class garden, bring in various fall vegetables for kids to learn about
  • Include the lesson in a unit about garden or nutrition
Classroom Considerations
  • The lesson is designed for a class garden with vegetables that are ready to harvest, requiring several weeks or even months for preparation
Pros
  • Comes with an excellent nutrition chart about different kids of vegetables, a worksheet about parts of a plant, and a rubric for evaluation
Cons
  • None
NGSS
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