Agriculture in the Classroom
Making Half MyPlate Fruits and Vegetables
Establish healthy eating habits with a lesson focused around MyPlate's food recommendations and the importance of eating fruits and vegetables. Through class discussion and worksheet completion, scholars discuss the best choices of foods...
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Estimate How Many Seeds Are In a Fruit or Vegetable
Help mathematicians estimate how many seeds are in a given vegetable or fruit. They are divided into pairs and estimate the amount of seeds in a whole fruit without seeing the inside. They then cut the fruit or vegetable in half and...
Southern Nevada Health District
What Am I ?
Have fun learning about fruits and vegetables with a game of pictionary! One team draws a fruit or vegetable on the board, while the other team collaborates to guess what it is. After the game, class members discuss where foods are grown...
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Growing and Harvesting Fruits and Vegetables
Students learn the various parts of a farm and what is grown on a farm. They also match fruits and vegetables to locations where they are grown.
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Fruit and Vegetable, Vitamins and Minerals
Young scholars discuss and identify vitamins and minerals, their functions in the body, how fruits and vegetables are a good food source, and deficiencies in the body that may occur due to a lack of them.
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Mystery Fruits and Vegetables: Why They Are Important to Us
Young scholars discover the importance of eating fruits and vegetables. In this health lesson plan, students participate in a guessing game, trying to identify fruits and vegetables without seeing them. Young scholars discuss the...
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Calling All Fruits And Vegetables!
Students differentiate between fruits and vegetables. They identify 20-25 common fruits and vegetables and utilize the Internet to gather and organize information about fruits and vegetables. Afterward, they create a new fruit and...
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Fruit or Vegetable?
Watermelon is a vegetable? A tomato is a fruit? Believe it or not, this debate is decades old. Groups examine rulings by the US Supreme Court, the USDA, and state statutes before developing their own criteria to use when labeling...
Southern Nevada Health District
Is It Fruit?
The concept is the most valuable feature of this resource, which is designed to bring learners' attention to the nutritional labels of food items. Your class will take a closer look at the labels on bottled juice containers to determine...
Baylor College
Plant Parts You Eat
Plants provide a variety of delicious foods essential for human survival. In the fourth lesson of this series on food science, young scientists investigate common fruits, vegetables, and grains in order to determine which plant part is...
Education Outside
Fruits vs. Veggies
Fruit or vegetable? That is the question in this activity designed for first graders. After a brief explanation of the difference, kids select two plants, use two words to describe each one, label them as a fruits or vegetables, and...
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Preparing Fruits and Vegetables
Students discuss ways to properly clean fruit and vegetables. In this adult health lesson, students explain the benefits of eating fruits and vegetables. They suggest ways to store food for future use.
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How are Seeds the Same and Different?
Students examine seeds from various plants. For this science lesson, students cut open fruits and vegetables in order to see the seeds. Students describe each type of seed and classify the seeds.
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Let's Read! Eating the Alphabet: Fruits and Vegetables from A to Z.
Students listen to the story Eating the Alphabet: Fruits and Vegetables from A to Z by Lois Ehlert, and try at least one new fruit or vegetable.
Captain Planet Foundation
Plant Parts Salad
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...
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Five-Alive: The Value of Fruits and Vegetables
Students discuss importance of proper nutrition in staying healthy, examine food pyramid chart and identify different vegetables or fruits via eye gaze, and sample different vegetables or fruits at snack or lunch time.
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Eat Your Fruits and Vegetables
Students will discuss the benefits of eating healthy. In this healthy diet instructional activity, students will discuss the importance of eating fresh fruit and vegetables when pregnant or breastfeeding and how to identify healthy...
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Fruits and Veggies - Yum!
Students use Inspiration to drag pictures of fruits and vegetables into the correct category. They discuss the name of other fruits and vegetables. They explain why or why not they like that particular fruit or vegetable. Students...
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Fruits and Vegetables: Dictionary Activity
In this fruits and vegetables dictionary worksheet, learners fill in "dictionary pages," using guide words on each page and a list of words given at the bottom of the page.
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Lesson 3: Vary Your Veggies and Focus on Fruits
Students explore fruits and vegetables. In this nutrition instructional activity, students generate a list of all known fruits and vegetables. Students cut out and compile pages for a weekly fruits and vegetable...
Cooking Matters
Cooking Matters: For Chefs and Kids
Get your scholars cooking with a collection of activities that pairs the class to a community chef, promotes healthy snacking and drinking, and explores fruits and vegetables. Lower elementary learners...
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Importance of Fresh Vegetables and Fruits in Our Diets
Students explore the importance of fruits and vegetables in our diets. In this science lesson, students discuss various types of fruits and vegetables. Students play the good health=good diet game. Students discuss types of fruits and...
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There's a Rainbow on My Plate
Students complete a variety of activities to learn about the importance of eating fruits and vegetables. In this healthy eating lesson, students complete activity sheets, make a wall poster, create a take home flyer, participate in a...
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We Garden: My Life as a Fruit or Vegetable
Students explore agriculture by participating in a role-play activity. In this farm to fork lesson plan, students ask and answer questions as though they were a specific plant about to be eaten. Students write responses to critical...