Download This Lesson: Broccoli
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…
- Explain what part of a plant broccoli is
- Explain the origin of broccoli and find it on a world map
- Identify the season for optimal growth
- Identify where broccoli is grown in Maine
- Explain the nutritional benefits of broccoli
- Predict and observe changes due to cooking
- Record changes in table
- 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)