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Lesson Plan
Agriculture in the Classroom

Making Half MyPlate Fruits and Vegetables

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Establish healthy eating habits with a activity 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...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Hand-Painted Paper Fruits and Vegetables

For Teachers 1st
First graders create hand painted fruits and vegetables to hang in the Sukkah, a temporary shelter used during the Jewish Holiday, Sukkot. They are excited about the creation of the works of art and the lesson engagement is high being...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fruit Or Vegetable? Sort the Cards

For Teachers K - 1st
In this sorting worksheet , students color and cut 24 picture and word cards depicting different fruits and vegetables. Students sort the cards.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fruit and Vegetable Portraits

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create complex forms from simple items. In this portrait lesson, students examine the work of artist, Giuseppe Arcimboldo and compose self-portraits using vegetables and fruits as features on the face.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Fruits and Vegetables Matching Game

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this fruits and vegetables worksheet, students match words of fruits and vegetables to their pictures. Students complete 34 matches total.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fruits and Vegetables: Dictionary Activity

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this fruits and vegetables dictionary worksheet, young scholars 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 Plan
Curated OER

Lesson 3: Vary Your Veggies and Focus on Fruits

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore fruits and vegetables.  In this nutrition lesson, students generate a list of all known fruits and vegetables.  Students cut out and compile pages for a weekly fruits and vegetable journal.  Students complete the journal...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Fruit and Vegetable Cut and Paste

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this worksheet focusing on cutting and pasting, students cut out small pictures of 6 food items and "paste" then into the appropriate shopping bag: fruits or vegetables.
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Lesson Plan
Education Outside

Grow an Art Garden: Plant a Rainbow

For Teachers 2nd Standards
After a reading of Lois Ehlert's Planting a Rainbow, class members plan a rainbow garden, research growing cycles of the fruits and vegetables in their section, and then plant and maintain the garden.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Fruit Or Vegetable?-- Full Color Copy

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this nutrition worksheet, students discover both common and unusual fruits and vegetables by cutting out 24 labeled color picture cards. Students decide if the food is a fruit or vegetable and sort them.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Fruit Or Vegetable? -- Black Line Copy

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this nutrition worksheet, students discover common and unusual foods by cutting out 24 picture and word cards. Students color each picture, decide if the food is a fruit or vegetable, and sort the cards.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Garden of Learners

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students decorate a clay pot with a variety of craft and clay materials and a craft stick with their photographs. They decorate and label their clay pot with their name, school, year, and designs, then sculpt fruits and vegetables using...
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Lesson Plan
August House

The Ogre Bully

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
English language arts, math, science, dramatic arts, and cooking; this lesson has it all! In this multidisciplinary resource, your scholars will take part in a read aloud of The Ogre Bully by A.B. Hoffmire and have a grand conversation...
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Curated OER

Simply Salad Poems

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the concept of healthy fruits and vegetables. They conduct an information search to list the health benefits of eating vegetables. Students use the information in order to create drawings based around the theme of...
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Education Outside

Natural Dye Tie-Dye

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Up-cycle, or reprocess waste materials, into colorful tie-dye clothing or banners with an activity that uses fruits and vegetable juices as dye sources.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Idioms-Fruits and Vegetables

For Students 4th - 6th
For this idiom worksheet, students translate 4 fruit/vegetable idioms, then complete 8 multiple choice questions, choosing the correct idiom.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fruit And Veggie Prints

For Teachers K - 6th
Students discover the art of printmaking and practice painting skills in this Art lesson for the elementary classroom. Paints, brushes, sponges, paint trays, and fruits and vegetables are all required to produce the prints in the art...
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Curated OER

Rhyming Fruits and Vegetables

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students describe fruits and vegetables using rhyming verses. They discuss the Five Fruits and Vegetables a Day campaign and rhyming words, and create a rhyming riddle using the "Rhyming Riddles" worksheet.
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US Apple Association

Apples: A Class Act! (Grades Pre-K–3)

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd Standards
Discover the nutritional wonders of apples and get to know Johnny Appleseed with a plethora of learning experiences that cover subjects math, history, English language arts, health, and arts and crafts. Activities include an apple...
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Curated OER

All About Seeds!

For Students K - 2nd
How do fruits relate to flowers and seeds? Identify the seeds and their purpose with a coloring activity for kindergartners. Once they color the seeds of apples, bananas, and peas (among others), kids get hands-on experience with bean...
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FloridaHealth

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Invite that hungry caterpillar to teach your class about nutrition! After brief instruction on fruit, the teacher reads The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle to the class. Kids hold up the fruit images at appropriate points in the...
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Curated OER

The Seed Match

For Teachers K - 5th
Students study seeds and plants. In this science lesson, students explore seeds from various types of plants and complete a worksheet about seeds. Students discuss plants that are fruits and vegetables and where they grow.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Word Scramble: Fruits and Vegetables

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this word scramble worksheet, learners look for names of fruits and vegetables in a word find; words are hidden horizontally and reveal the answer to a riddle.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Fruit

For Students K - 2nd
In this fruit vocabulary worksheet, students color 4 labeled fruit pictures. Students then complete 4 sentences about fruit, using the word bank.