Agriculture in the Classroom
Making Half MyPlate Fruits and Vegetables
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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Hand-Painted Paper Fruits and Vegetables
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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Fruit Or Vegetable? Sort the Cards
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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Fruit and Vegetable Portraits
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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Fruits and Vegetables Matching Game
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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Fruits and Vegetables: Dictionary Activity
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 3: Vary Your Veggies and Focus on Fruits
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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Fruit and Vegetable Cut and Paste
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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Grow an Art Garden: Plant a Rainbow
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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Fruit Or Vegetable?-- Full Color Copy
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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Fruit Or Vegetable? -- Black Line Copy
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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A Garden of Learners
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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The Ogre Bully
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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Simply Salad Poems
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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Natural Dye Tie-Dye
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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Idioms-Fruits and Vegetables
For this idiom worksheet, students translate 4 fruit/vegetable idioms, then complete 8 multiple choice questions, choosing the correct idiom.
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Fruit And Veggie Prints
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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Rhyming Fruits and Vegetables
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.
US Apple Association
Apples: A Class Act! (Grades Pre-K–3)
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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All About Seeds!
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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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
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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The Seed Match
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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Word Scramble: Fruits and Vegetables
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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Fruit
In this fruit vocabulary worksheet, students color 4 labeled fruit pictures. Students then complete 4 sentences about fruit, using the word bank.