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Grow Your Own Grub

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Students create a recipe book.  In this produce lesson, students watch a selection of the harvest animations from the BBC Dig In website, taste some of the vegetable and herbs they've been growing and discuss creating a class recipe book. Students research recipes that include the ingredients they have grown in class and then design a class recipe book.

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recipes, herbs, vegetables

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herbs, produce, recipe book, recipes, vegetable, science
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4th - 7th
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Science
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