Vegetables

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Social Sciences

Subtopic 1: Where vegetables come from:

Natural Science

Subtopic 1: Colours and shapes of Vegetables (Department of Basic Education, 2015)

concept 1: different colours of vegetables that we get.

Concept 2: Different shapes of vegetables that we get.

Class activity: Classify the vegetables based on their colour.

Subtopic 2: Nutrition of vegetables

Concept 1: What vegetables do for our bodies

Concept 2: Vegetables that grow in the ground.

Class activity: Learners classify vegetables and put them into groups based on where they grow, such as under the ground, on bushes, in trees, etc. (Graybill, K. 2018)

Concept 1: Parts of the world where various vegetables originally came from.

Concept 2: Different things people used vegetables for in the olden days.

Class activity: Learners use a world map and pick a vegetable of their choosing such as broccoli and point to the world map where they think broccoli came from. Teachers must provide correct answer afterwards.

Subtopic 2: What people ate before vegetables (Pobiner, B. 2018)

Technology

Concept 1: Types of meats people ate before vegetables were discovered

Concept 2: Types of fruit people ate before meats were discovered

Class activity: Learners draw various types of meats and vegetables on a piece of paper and colour it in.

Subtopic 1: Different tools used to harvest vegetables

Concept 1: What the tools are made of.

Concept 2: How they use the tools to harvest the vegetables.

Class activity: Class discussion on what we could use at home to harvest vegetables from our garden.

Subtopic 2: Research of vegetables.

Concept 1: What farmers used to research how to take care of the vegetables.

Concept 2: What technology is used to take care of vegetables on the farms.

Class activity: Learners draw a picture of a farm with a sprinkler that waters the vegetables in the ground and a tractor in the field.