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Five-Alive: The Value of Fruits and Vegetables

For Teachers K - 5th
Students discuss importance of proper nutrition in staying healthy, examine food pyramid chart and identify different vegetables or fruits via eye gaze, and sample different vegetables or fruits at snack or lunch time.
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From McGee's Farm to the Movies

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students participate in several plant-themed activities. They keep a food log, identify any plants they have eaten and then classify these foods by the part of the plant that is edible. Students sing songs about plants, make collages,...
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Edible Plants

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students determine what part of a plant they are eating when they eat different fruits and vegetables, and make collages of fruit and vegetable pictures that are flowers, fruits, leaves, roots, seeds, seed pods, stems and tubers.
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A Variety of Very Safe Veggies

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students study viruses and bacteria that can contaminate vegetables. They examine how vegetables can be preserved and what farmers might do to keep vegetables safe. They examine with pickling as a way to keep vegetable preserved safely.
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Princess Peapod's Vegetable Group

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders participate in activities that focus on the vegetable food group.
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Persuasive Vegetables

For Teachers 5th
In groups, write persuasive essays telling people whether or not they should be eating vegetables.
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A Leaf, a Stem, a Root, Oh My!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students conduct Internet research on plants and complete a WebQuest on vegetable plants. They use a graphic organizer to display their findings, observe actual vegetables and design a salad, noting which part of each plant is included.
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Let's Read! Oliver's Vegetables

For Teachers K
Students listen to the story Oliver's Vegetables by Vivian French, and see, touch or taste at least one vegetable.
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Let's Read! Tops & Bottoms

For Teachers K
Students listen to the story Tops & Bottoms and learn the name of one vegetable which grows above ground and one which grows below ground.
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Let's Read! Eating the Alphabet: Fruits and Vegetables from A to Z.

For Teachers K
Students listen to the story Eating the Alphabet: Fruits and Vegetables from A to Z by Lois Ehlert, and try at least one new fruit or vegetable.
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Fruits and Vegetables Activity

For Students K - 2nd
In this fruit and vegetable activity, students circle pictures of fruits or vegetables that they have tried, then color the pictures. 
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Fruits and Vegetables

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners explore the differences between plants with seeds and seedless.  In this fruits and vegetables lesson students examine some vegetables and nuts that are really fruits.
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Plants We Eat

For Students 1st - 3rd
For this vegetables worksheet, students respond to 3 questions where they identify plants that humans, rabbits, and bees eat.
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Who Grows Cabbage?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students use logic to solve the puzzle about vegetable farming. In this logical thinking lesson, students use the game board of various vegetable categories to define which farmer grows cabbage. Students use the clues to help them...
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Vegetable Twister

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners review vegetables and their nutrient values and production. In this vegetable production worksheet, students read information about the nutrients in vegetables and how they are grown. Learners participate in a game of Twister to...
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Alphabetizing Vegetables

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore alphabetical order. In this language arts lesson, students are given a list of twenty vegetables and complete a worksheet putting the names of these vegetables in alphabetical order.
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Favorite Vegetable

For Students 1st
In this favorite foods activity, 1st graders study the 10 different pictured vegetables. Students then circle their favorite vegetable.
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Vegetable Tiles

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this vegetable words learning exercise, students use the vegetable words from the word box to complete the letter tiles that correspond to the shape of the letters in each word.
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Broccoli Bill Vegetable Word Search

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this word search worksheet, students use the word box to help them find and circle all of the vegetables in the word puzzle. Students locate the words asparagus, corn, kale, peppers, pea, celery, onion, radish, beets, broccoli,...
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Vegetables: Printing Practice

For Students 1st - 2nd
In these vocabulary acquisition worksheets, students learn several vocabulary words for vegetables. Students trace the words, print them, and write them on their own.
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Vegetables

For Students 1st - 2nd
In these writing and vocabulary skills worksheets, students identify the pictures of the various vegetables and then write sentences for each vegetable.
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Vegetables Word Search

For Students 1st - 2nd
In these vegetable word search worksheets, learners enhance their vocabulary by finding the vegetable terms in the six different word searches.
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Vegetables Crossword

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this English Language crossword worksheet, students use the pictures to identify the correct vegetable term that completes the crossword puzzle.
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Vegetables Word Shapes (1)

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this word shapes learning exercise, students study the twelve different vegetable terms and then write the vocabulary into the correctly shaped boxes.