Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Vegetables - Coggle Diagram
Vegetables
-
Technology
Processing of vegetables
Concept 1: The preparation of vegetables - washing, cutting, drying out, canning, freezing and more (Britannica).
Concept 2: Why the processing of vegetables is necessary - it can make it last longer, creates variety and helps make sure it is cleaned properly before consuming.
Activity: use the Technological design process. Select 1 of thew ways vegetables can be processed and prepare the vegetable at home with a parent. Bring it to school and discuss how it has been processed and how processing is useful.
Vegetable structures
Concept 1: Vegetable structures are determined by the type of plant - root, stem, leave, pod etc. and the cell make up of these plants (Research Outreach 2020).
Concept 2: The difference between the outer and inner structures of vegetables, investigate the reason it may or may not differ (harder outer layer that protects the inner nutrition etc.).
-
Vegetable farming
concept 1: How vegetables are grown - either above the ground on a vine, or self-supporting OR below the ground (Rickards 2012).
Concept 2: Best conditions for farming vegetables - Healthy and fertilised soil, enough land/space, water and climate (best season) (SME South Africa 2024).
Activity: Create a picture map of a vegetable farm - the different types of vegetables, root, stem, leaves etc.
-
Natural Science
How vegetables develop
Concept 1: Germination and where vegetables come from - They come from seeds and germination is the process of the seed beginning to sprout, becoming a plant (Twinkl).
Concept 2: The type of plant vegetables come from - vegetables are grown from herbaceous plants (Britannica Kids 2024).
Activity: Plant several different vegetable seeds; observe, predict and compare the growth to and with classmates.