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Tomato Exploration

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Create tomatoes in 15-20 minutes using this fun and interactive lesson plan! Learners listen to a book about tomatoes (recommendations listed), and focus on the vocabulary word tomato. They count the syllables and practice the plural. Learners explore tomatoes through observation and taste, then create 3-D tomatoes using colored paper and brads. Students can choose which type of tomatoes to create. This strategy works for other fruits and veggies, too!

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crafts, making predictions, sounding out words, decoding words, syllables, phonemic awareness, phonics, taste testing, taste buds, sense of taste, making observations, farming

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craft, farming, observation, prediction, syllables, Experiment, art project, taste test, tomato, text-to-world connections, sound out, multi-syllable word, rf.2.3, science
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K - 2nd
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Science
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Duration
30 mins
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Project-Based Learning
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