Lesson 5
Yum Yum
Objectives:
Students will learn about plant parts as food sources.
Students
will identify edible plant parts.
Time
Required:
Three
one-hour sessions
Vocabulary:
flower - hold the parts of the plant that help it make more plants.
fruit - an edible sweet fleshy form from a plant.
leaf - makes food for a plant to live and grow.
root - find and take in the water and minerals that a plant needs to live and grow. Roots also hold the plant in place.
seed - have the job of making new plants.
stem - carries water and minerals from roots to leaves. Hold the leaves and flowers up.
vegetable - the edible part of a plant.
Materials:
Growing Vegetable Soup by Louis Ehlert
Computer with Internet access
KidPix or any other drawing program
word processing program
Procedures:
Read Growing Vegetable Soup by Louis Ehlert. In this story a father and child plant seeds and sprouts, give them water, weed them, and watch them grow into vegetables. Then they dig them up, carry them home, wash them, and cook them to make vegetable soup.
Review the parts of a plant. Ask children if they have ever eaten a plant root, a plant stem, a flower, leaf, or seeds. Record their responses on an experience chart titled "PLANTS - The Parts We Eat." If children have difficulty thinking of examples, make suggestions. Children may be surprised to learn, for example, that when they eat cauliflower or broccoli, they are eating the flowers of these plants. When they eat carrots, onions, potatoes, and turnips they are eating roots. Other examples: leaves: spinach, lettuce, cabbage stems: celery, asparagus fruits and seeds: sunflower seeds, corn. tomatoes, peanuts.
Show samples of the various fruits and vegetables and discuss the part of the plant they are.
Have students visit Parts of Plants We Eat and play game online.
Revisit K-W-L and add new information learned.
Evaluation:
Extension
Activity:
Invite a guest speaker such as a nursery grower or horticulturist to talk to the class about plants and his or her work.
Have a veggie and fruit tasting party. Include some unusual varieties. Have students describe the sight, taste and textures of the fruits and vegetables and what part of the plant they are. Make graph to show class favorites.
Home Learning: