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Vegetables - Coggle Diagram
Vegetables
Technology
Tools used for gardening
For digging we use garden forks such as
Digging fork - to dig and loosen soil.
Border fork - to plant seedlings
Manure fork - for putting manure.
(Sherief, 2024)
Activity: Design a tool suitable enough to plant seedlings.
Vegetable Processing
Includes blanching, dehydrating, irridating
pickling, freezing, canning, fermenting
(Singh & Jen, 2021)
Activity: Make a can structure suitable
to store vegetables.
Sructure and materials of vegetable box
Most vegetabe boxes are usually made of wood
Activity: Make a structure solid enough
to carry multiple vegetable in.
Natural Science
Different types of vegetables
Activity: Identify and collect different types
of vegetables from the school garden.
Root vegetables, e.g. carrots, radishes, beets.
Stem vegetables, e.g. asparagus, kholrabi.
Underground stems, e.g. potatoes.
Leafstalk vegetables, e.g. lettuce, brussel sprouts, spinach.
Bulb vegetables e.g. garlic, onions.
(Encyclopeadiea, 2024)
Tastes and textures
Tastes can bitter, sour, salty or sweet in raw form.
(Harbstreet, 2024)
Textures can be crisp, soft or rigid becfore cooked.
(Smewing, 2021)
Activity: Give samples of vegatbles in raw form to
taste and compare the different tastes and textures.
Colours and shapes of vegetables
Categories of colour: red, purple/blue, orange,
green and white/brown.
Each colour has a unique disease fighting chemical.
(Nutrition Austrailia, 2021)
Activity: Classify different vegetables according to colour.
Social Science
Role of vegetables in differents cultures
Vegetables sustain the life of many people
supplying important nutrients and dietary fibres.
(Mungofa, Sibanyoni, Mahau & Beswa, 2022)
Different cultures and religions prepare the vegetables in varios ways.
Activity: pick a vegetable and reaerch how different cultures prepare it.
Vegetable Farming
Where to grow vegetables, preparing the ground,
determining the soil, Planting the seeds, nurturing
the plant and enjoying the vegetable.
(Twinkl, n.d.)
Activity:Visit a farm to learn about vegetable farming
and determine the cause and effect of the process of
planting the seeds.