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Vegetables
Natural Science
Colours of vegetables
Discuss the colours of some vegetables: red (beet, tomatoes), yellow (corn, butternut), orange (carrots, pumpkins), white (garlic, cauliflower), brown (potatoes) and purple (eggplant, purple cabbage). (Have a plant, 2024)
Types of vegetables
Discuss the different types of vegetables: root vegetables (carrots), stem vegetables (asparagus), leaf vegetables (lettuce), bulb (garlic) and flower (cauliflower). (Encyclopaedia Brintannica, 2024)
Activity
Learners will be divided into groups of 4 and each group will choose a vegetable which they want to plant in their garden at school. Learners will receive a board with their names on and the type of vegetable which they planted.
Technology
Process of vegetables
The types of vegetable processes are blanching, dehydration, canning, freezing, fermenting and pickling. (Jen, nd)
Structure of a vegetable
Show children a diagram of the different parts of the structure of a vegetable plant such as apical bud, lateral bud, flower, leaf, fruit, stem and root. (Bharathi, 2024)
Activity
Learners will use play dough to create different vegetables.
Social Science
Types of vegetable farming
There are four types vegetable farming such as home gardening, market gardening, truck farming and vegetable forcing. (Warid, nd)
Where does vegetables come from?
Vegetables comes from different parts of a plant for example lettuces (leaves), asparagus (stems), carrots (roots), garlic (bulbs) and flowers (cauliflower). (Brintannica, 2024)
Activity
Go on a class outing and visit the local farm to see how which type of farming they use and to find out how vegetables get from the farm to the stores.