All food, and especially vegetables, undertake a journey from garden to plate. Students track this journey to understand where their food comes from and the impact the origin and the […]
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SCIENCE – Vegetable plants need certain things to survive
By undertaking an experiment over several weeks, students learn that vegetable plants need certain things to survive. Using the Inquiry Process, they find out what these things are and how […]
T&E – Design a ‘Healthy Eating’ Board Game
Students design and build a board game to demonstrate their knowledge of healthy eating practices. By sharing their games, students reinforce their own knowledge and share new ideas with their […]
HEALTH – Making Healthy Choices
Students learn about the Healthy Food Pyramid and demonstrate their knowledge by modifying recipes to be healthy. Using Procedure Writing, students modify their favourite recipes which can then be tested […]
MATHS – Vegetable Word Problems
Students learn and reinforce ‘part plus part equals whole’ questions using vegetables as the examples. They carry out addition and subtraction word problems where the results are unknown. Suitable for […]
MATHS – Analysing Vegetable Growth
After using a chart to predict the growth of various vegetables, students record and analyse their growth rates and choose a graphing style to represent their findings. Younger students can […]
L.O.T.E. – A Vegetable by Any Other Name
Students learn and use the Indonesian names for common fruits and vegetables and demonstrate their knowledge by completing a matching task. This same activity can be completed for other languages […]
ENGLISH – Poetry, Japanese Style
After reading a variety of Haiku poems, students use the same form of poetry to write a Haiku about fruit or vegetables. They should be given a selection to feel, […]