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Coloring the Life Cycle of Fruits and Vegetables

For Teachers Pre-K
Students investigate how fruits and vegetables change and grow.  In this life cycle of fruits and vegetables lesson, students observe the changes in fruits and vegetables as they grow and record the colors on a worksheet.
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Lesson Plan
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Rename Fruits, Vegetables and Spices

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students explore fruits and vegetables. In this fruits and vegetables lesson, students study traits of various fruits, vegetables and seeds. Students rename fruits, vegetables and seeds.
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Match the Colored Raindrops, Fruit, and Vegetable

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this matching the colors worksheet, students math the colored raindrops with the fruits or vegetables with the same colors. Students draw six lines to match colors.
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Activity
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Food Concentration (Matching Game)

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
In this matching worksheet, students are given 18 sets of cards with a full-color illustration of a fruit or vegetable, along with its name. This game could be used for oral language practice with ELL students.
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The Human Body

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Explore the human body through hands-on activities. Young learners will trace their bodies and place cut out body organs in the proper place, print patterns using cut fruit, sing songs about good nutrition, and use their five senses...
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Plan a Meal Fun

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Discuss helping with the family grocery shopping. View a teacher drawn map of a grocery store and discuss where the breads, meats, and dairy products are located. Practice categorizing foods as breads and cereals, fruits, vegetables,...
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Worksheet
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The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush Activity Card

For Students Pre-K - K
In this reading worksheet, students respond to the book The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush by completing an activity at home with a parent. Kids take a small sample of 5 common fruits and vegetables and press some juice onto the paper....
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Slash Trash! Reducing, Reusing and Recycling Our Way to Zero Waste

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
The other "Three Rs" are covered in this lesson: reduce, reuse, and recycle. Over four weeks, conservationists collect data about waste in their own homes. They combine their findings with those of other young scholars in order to...
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Growing Minds: My Plate

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Examine food choices and the nutritional properties of food groups with this visually appealing whole-class lesson plan. This will take a bit of preparation, but once you do it, you can use the materials for years. Using a food groups...
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Mississippi Public Broadcasting: Ed Said

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Meet Ed Said, a nine-year-old purple-haired hard-core fruit-and-veggie rapper. Learn nutrition facts from Ed by watching and playing his videos and songs. Includes many print-and-color activities about eating healthy fruit- and...
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Chateau Meddybemps: Crocodile Smiles

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Students use this site to identify colors and what foods are that color.