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July 23, 2012

Mixed Vegetables

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Brief Description: Students will learn about the history of vegetables and locate their origin on a world map. They will be able to identify the growing seasons for these vegetables. Students will increase their awareness of the health benefits of vegetables while making a no-bake veggie pizza and participating in writing exercises.

 

Goals

Students will…

  • Increase their familiarity with vegetable combinations.
  • Eat vegetable combinations when offered them.
  • Increase their awareness of the environmental benefits of composting.
  • Increase their understanding of nutrition.

Objectives

Students will be able to…

  1. List at least 3 plant parts found in the vegetables on the pizza
  2. Explain the origins of the vegetables on the veggie pizza and find them on a world map
  3. Identify the growing seasons for the various vegetables
  4. Write directions for making a no-bake veggie pizza
  5. Write a paragraph about pizza as a healthy food
  6. Create a lunch menu in which no-bake veggie pizza is one of the foods
  7. Participate in composting activities

Lesson Activities

  • Review points about safety, sanitation, and cooperation
  • Introduce mixed vegetables
  • Background information on vegetable combinations
  • Lessons from the Farm
  • Prepare no-bake veggie pizza(Form groups of 4 to 6 students)
  • Do compost activity while food is cooking(See compost lesson for mini-lesson)
  • Eat
  • Wrap-up
  • Distribute copies of recipes and challenge sheets to students
  • Clean up

 Other Mixed Vegetable Activities

Nutrition science lesson: Planting an herb garden, Global and regional mapping, Mixed vegetable fact sheet, Writing ideas, Additional recipes

(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.     ELA  B5a
e.   ELA  B2a

(Provided by Maine Nutrition Network)

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