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Vegetables
Global warmings effect on farming
Class activity: Allow the children to draw a made-up invention on a piece of paper that the think will help solve global warming. Once they have drawn their invention allow them to explain what it is and how it will work.
The most important climate change risk is increased temperature. This affects rainfall and seasonal patterns on a global scale. It also affects plants’ phenological growth and physical growth, as well as animal growth and exposure to pests and diseases. (Johnston, 2019)
Where vegetables come from
History of vegetables reaches the most distant years of modern humankind, when hunter gatherers exited the Africa and started spreading across entire planet earth. As the birth of modern human civilizations, vegetables were identified as the sourced of great medicinal and nutritional power. (Lioness, 2024)
Class activity: Read through the history of vegetables and then hold up one vegetable at a time to see if the class can list any facts you read about that specific vegetable.
Different types of farming equipment
Farming tools are an important part of agriculture and can help farmers in their daily tasks. As the range of farming tasks has grown, so has the variety of tools available to farmers. (Team Green, 2022.)
Class Activity: The students need to design a tractor that will be able to dig through hard rocks to make it easier for the farmers to plant their produce.
Vegetables and how they are processed
Class activity: Pickling carrots- The teacher needs to make to pickling mixture before the lesson. Bring carrots into class and allow the children to cut them up with a safe knife and put the cut-up pieces in a glass jar. Have the children write down what they think will happen to the carrots over the next few weeks. Let them record what the changes are with the carrots every few days and let them discuss what they think the carrots will taste and feel like after they have finished pickling.
Generally, the techniques include blanching, dehydrating, canning, freezing, fermenting and pickling, and irradiating. (Jen & Singh, 2021)
Tastes and textures of vegetables
The use of descriptive adjectives, synonyms, and antonyms allows us to create rich and engaging descriptions of vegetables. How do certain vegetables taste and feel? Smooth, soft, rough, bumpy. Do they taste bitter, salty, sweet, sour? (Anon, 2024)
Class activity: Have the students feel and taste all the different vegetables they brought in for the vegetable show and tell. Let them describe the texture and taste of each vegetable.
Different types of vegetables
What are some commonly used vegetables? potatoes, onion, celery, garlic, lettuce, cauliflower are some of the few. (Mr Teacher, 2022)
Class activity: Have each student bring a different vegetable into class for show and tell and have them tell the class one fact about the vegetable they brought.
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