Exploring Local Seasonal Produce with Our Senses
Grade: 3-5, (limit 30 students)
Time: 45 minutes
Only available September through October.
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This 45 minute presentation engages the students' minds, bodies, and senses as we discuss growing and eating seasonal fruits and vegetables. The lesson includes an active game where students learn about what fruits and vegetables grow in Kansas. A local farmer or gardener guest shares how they grow their crops, illustrated with pictures. A read aloud book discusses mindful eating, followed by a local food tasting/sampling activity where the children use descriptive words to mindfully sample seasonal produce items.
The ability to project a PowerPoint slide set onto a screen will provide learning opportunity for students in this presentation.
Availability: 3 weeks advance notice is required to schedule this lesson.
Requests for this lesson are scheduled on a first come, first served basis and depend on the availability of the Master Gardener volunteers.
Please ask your students if they have food allergies that need to be addressed before sampling.
Standards
- Community Health: 5.1, 5.2, 5.4
- Environmental Health: 5.1
- Nutrition: 5.3, 5.4, 5.12
Science:
- 3-LS1.B – Plants have unique and diverse life cycles.
- 3-LS3.A – Characteristics result from individuals’ interactions with the environment.
- 3-LS3.B – The environment affects the traits that an organism develops.
- 3-LS4.C – For any particular environment, some kinds of organisms survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
Social Studies:
- 3.1 – societies are shaped by practices of individuals and groups
ELA:
- W.3.10.a – Choose words and phrases for effect.
- W.3.10.b – Experiment with nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs when writing
Science:
- 4-LS1.A – Plants have structures that serve functions in growth, survival, and reproduction
Social Studies:
- 5.1 – dynamic relationships impact lives in communities, states, and nations
ELA:
- W.4.10.a – Choose words and phrases to convey ideas precisely
- SL.4.1c – Pose and respond to specific questions to clarify or follow up on information, or follow up on information, and make comments that contribute to the discussion and link to the remarks of others.
Science:
- 5-LS2.A – Organisms survive only in environments where their particular needs are met.
- 5-ESS2.A- Earth’s major systems interact and support a variety of ecosystems and organisms.
- 5-ESS3.C – Human activities in agriculture, industry, and life have had major effects on the land vegetation, etc. Individuals and communities are doing things to help protect Earth's resources and environments.
Social Studies:
- 3.1 – societies are shaped by practices of individuals and groups
- 5.1 - dynamic relationships impact lives in communities, states and nations.
ELA:
- SL.5.1c – Pose and response to question by making comments that contribute to the discussion and elaborate on the remarks of others.