Taste Testing

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Brief Description: To build awareness of where food comes from and to encourage children to eat healthier, locally grown foods.

OBJECTIVES

The students will:

be able to identify vegetables, fruit and products grown on Maine farms and gardens
be more likely to consume these foods at home or in the cafeteria

ESTIMATED TEACHING TIME

30-45 minutes

Correlations to State of Maine Learning Results: Parameters for Essential Instruction

ELA = English Language Arts, HE/PE = Health Education and Physical Education, MA = Mathematics, SCI = Science, SS = Social Studies, VPA = Visual and Performing Arts

** Alignment possible only if lesson extension is done

Grade

Maine Learning Results

Common Core Standards for English and
Mathematics

3-5

**ELA – Writing: B3. Students write to identify and explain a position to an identified audience.

HEALTH. – C1. Students demonstrate age appropriate healthy practices and/or behaviors to maintain or improve personal health.

a. Design healthy menus

MATH – Data Analysis: B2.

Grade 3: Students read, construct, and interpret bar
graphs.

Grade 4: Students collect and represent data in tables,
line plots, and bar graphs, and read and interpret these types of data.

Grade 5: Students read, construct, and interpret line graphs.

SCI – Ecosystems: E2. Students describe ways organisms depend upon, interact within, and change the living and non-living environment as well as ways the environment affects organisms.

d. Explain how the food of most animals can be traced back to plants and how animals use food for energy and repair.

**ELA – Writing

Grade 3: 2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly

4. With guidance and support from adults, produce
writing in which the development and organization
are appropriate to task and purpose.

Grade 4: 4. Produce clear and coherent writing in
which the development and organization are appropriate
to task, purpose, and audience.

Grade 5: 4. Produce clear and coherent writing in
which the development and organization are appropriate
to task, purpose, and audience.

MATH

Grade 3: 3MD. B.3 (p) Draw a scaled picture graph
and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with
several categories. Solve one- and two-step “how
many more” and “how many less” problems using
information presented in scaled bar graphs. For example, draw a bar graph in which each square in the bar graph might represent 5 pets.

**Lesson Extension: Writing Activity-Students write about what kinds of foods are needed to be healthy and where they come from OR write about the observations made of foods tested and their flavors.