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Apples and Seasons
Students identify and interpret the idea that apples grow on trees and that these apple trees change as the seasons change. Then they gain knowledge of seasonal changes through a creative art experience for the students. Students also...
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Fruits and Vegetables: Primary Grades
Students complete a variety of activities in their study of fruits and vegetables. They role play a grocer in the produce department; they go on a scavenger hunt; they sample different foods made with fruits and vegetables.
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Plants
Learners illustrate the major parts of a plant, classify some plant foods we eat as roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds. They also name some animals that use seeds, leaves, and fruit for food.
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Five-Alive: The Value of Fruits and Vegetables
Pupils 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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Edible Plants
Students determine what part of a plant they are eating when they eat different fruits and vegetables, and make collages of fruit and vegetable pictures that are flowers, fruits, leaves, roots, seeds, seed pods, stems and tubers.
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Queen Anna Banana's Fruit Group
Second graders participate in activities focusing on the fruit group and rhyming words.
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Las Frutas (The Fruits)
Young scholars study the Spanish words that name fruits in spoken and written form.
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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.
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Fruits and Vegetables Activity
In this fruit and vegetable worksheet, students circle pictures of fruits or vegetables that they have tried, then color the pictures.
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Fruits and Vegetable Coloring Page
In this fruits and vegetables coloring page worksheet, students find all the pictures of fruits in the first picture and color them. They find all the pictures of the vegetables in the second picture, and color them.
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Five a Day
Students look up and print definitions of fruit and vegatable. They write down their food intake for three days. They identify and categorize fruits and vegetables. They research how fruits and vegetables grow. They bring in their...
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Healthy Eating
Third graders discuss healthy eating choices. They explore the components of a balanced diet and the importance of a balanced diet to growth and wellness. Students discuss the types of nutrients in fruits and vegetables that are...
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Pigment Plucking
Students examine pigments found in different fruits and vegetables and practice the processes for extracting the pigments. Pigments are used to create artwork and a class PowerPoint presentation is made on the different types of plant...
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Foods and Nutrition
Students are introduced to the names and colors of eight fruits. They participate in jazz chants, discuss favorite fruits, match vocabulary cards, complete a worksheet and write in journals.
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Be A Food Explorer
Students read about and discuss the origin of many different fruits and vegetables. Students complete surveys, sample a variety of new foods and write about their reactions. They commit to trying at least three new foods.
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Natural Dye Lesson Plan
Students investigate major pigments which occur naturally in fruits and vegetables, and to use them to dye a number of items. They study the effects of pH on anthocyanin on pigments.
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What Are the Food Groups?
Young scholars examine how eating a variety of foods keeps them healthy. They also explore how similar foods are grouped together in food groups.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: How Many Seeds Do Different Types of Fruit Produce?
Do you like your strawberry jelly with or without the seeds? Are you glad to have a seed-free watermelon, or do you enjoy spitting the seeds into the garden? You might not like to find seeds in your fruit, but fruit is nature's way of...
NC State University
North Carolina State Univ.: Growing Apple Trees in the Home Garden
This comprehensive site provides a wealth of information about how to grow apple trees. Site selection, training and pruning central leader trees, harvesting, and fruit storage are several of the topics covered.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: One Bad Apple Spoils the Whole Bunch: Plant Hormone Ethylene
We have all heard the old saying, "One bad apple spoils the whole bunch." Due to the production of the plant hormone ethylene during the ripening process, this saying proves true. This experiment will investigate the role of ethylene in...
Other
Botanical.com: Apple
This page is an in depth exploration into the history, uses, recipes for and much more concerning the common fruit the apple.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Apples & More: Apple Facts
This fact sheet shares numerous interesting facts about the common fruit, the apple. Great for the study of botany or biology. Available in English or Spanish.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Apples & More: Varieties
A listing of all the known variety of apples with links to detailed information on and images of each variety. In both English and Spanish.
Other
Western Growers Association
Western Growers Association is a group formed to give growers of fresh produce in California and Arizona support programs. Their homepage contains information about the organization, recipes, information on produce, news releases,...