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July 23, 2012

Broccoli

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Brief Description: Students will be able to explain the history of broccoli and locate where it is grown on a Maine map. They will be able to explain what part of a plant broccoli is and its nutritional benefits. Also students will be able to observe and predict changes due to cooking and record these in a table.|

 

Goals

Students will…

  • Increase their familiarity with broccoli.
  • Eat broccoli when it is offered to them.
  • Increase their awareness of the environmental benefits of composting.
  • Increase their understanding of nutrition

Objectives

Students will be able to…

  1. Explain what part of a plant broccoli is
  2. Explain the origin of  broccoli and find it on a world map        
  3. Identify the season for optimal growth
  4. Identify where broccoli is grown in Maine
  5. Explain the nutritional benefits of broccoli
  6. Predict and observe changes due to cooking
  7. Record changes in table
  8. Participate in composting activities

Lesson Activities

  • Review points about safety, sanitation, and cooperation
  • Introduce broccoli
  • Background information on broccoli
  • Lessons from the Farm
  • Cook broccoli-cheese soup (Form groups of 4 to 6 students)
  • Do compost activity (see compost lesson for mini-lessons)
  • Eat
  • Wrap-up
  • Distribute copies of recipes and challenge sheets to students
  • Clean-up

 Other Broccoli Activities

Nutrition science lesson:  What happens to broccoli when we cook it?
Global and regional mapping  
Writing ideas

(Download Complete Answer Key)

Cooking Maine Foods from the Ground Up
Alignment-at-a-Glance

Learning
Objective
Health Education
Standards
Cross-Discipline 
a.    
b.    
c.    
d.    
e.   ELA  B5a
f.   ELA  B2a

(Provided by Maine Nutrition Network)

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