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Eight Ways to Celebrate Fruit
Activities designed to incorporate the study of fruit into your classroom during National Fruit and Vegetable Month.
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Way to Go Bananas
Fifth graders explore bananas. In this interdisciplinary lesson plan, 5th graders discover the dietary benefits of bananas, complete a fruits word search, write banana myths, research banana recipes, and use their problem solving skills...
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Going Bananas!©
Students discuss importance of eating five servings of fruits and vegetables for a healthy lifestyle, and identify bananas as an excellent source of energy.
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Beginning Sentence Completion: 4
In this sentence completion worksheet, students fill in the blank to the sentence about bananas. Students complete 10 multiple choice question.
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Banana activities
In this banana learning exercise, students write, count, color, and sort mini activities involving bananas. Students complete four activities.
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Trace and Color: Bananas
In this fruit-themed coloring worksheet, students color the picture of bananas and then practice printing the word bananas by tracing the dotted lines.
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Go Bananas! (Lesson One)
Young scholars research the historical and present movements of bananas. Using maps, they locate the countries in which the fruit is grown and identify common characteristics between the banana-growing countries. They also trace the...
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Banana Grams
Students receive bananas that are decorated like cartoon characters to have a fun and healthy snack. In this healthy snack lesson plan, students can create banana characters with permanent marker.
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The Great Big Yellow Banana Quiz - Fun Facts about Bananas 1
In this research skills learning exercise, students read the questions about bananas and research to answer the 10 multiple choice questions.
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Banana Dot to Dot
In this connect the dots worksheet, students connect the dots and draw a line using the numbers 1-20 to outline the picture of a banana.
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Fruit Bingo
Students review their notes on fruit as provided by the teacher. They then play a game called Fruit Bingo to identify the different types of fruit and their classifications. Each student receivec a bingo card. Finally, students identify...
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Honduras: Going Bananas
Middle schoolers explore the popularity of bananas. They conduct a survey to understand the reasons for their popularity. Students research a banana's journey from the farm to school lunch. They compose a children's book about bananas...
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People and Plants
Students examine the uses of plants from many different biomes, particularly, rain forests to uncover data about the production of new drugs and the cross-cultural sharing of foods. A rain forest food festival reinforces the concept of...
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Oxfam: Bonkers About Bananas
Colorful resource presents the story of bananas and their travels all over the world. Meet banana farmers from the Windward Islands and try out a delicious banana cake recipe.
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Class Flow: Go Bananas for Fair Trade
[Free Registration/Login Required] A fair trade quiz for primary schools with web links to a couple of videos, and with reference to the Oxfam fair trade site.