LESSON PLAN

Activity Name: What plants we can eat grown on a farm?

Approximate Length of Experience: 10-15 minutes

Age and Number of Children: 10, four year olds

Goal: To become more aware/familiar with plants that are grown

on a farm to eat.

Domain: Cognitive

Content: Facts include: What parts of a plant are we eating from the farm?

Vocabulary words include: trees, apples, pears, peaches, plums, roots, carrots,

radishes, beets, potatoes, sweet potatoes, vine, pumpkins, zucchini, tomatoes,

strawberries, beans, top of ground, lettuce, spinach, cabbage, Brussels sprouts.

Objectives: Participation in this activity will increase the childs ability to.

1. Describe the different parts of a plant that we eat.

2. Describe different ways vegetables and plants are grown.

3. Be able to sort and tell the difference on how vegetables are grown.

Materials: Chart, chart paper, markers. Chart paper is pre-done with the words: Plants

we can eat from the farm. In four subcategories have the words Trees and draw a tree.
Roots:draw a picture of a root vegetable. Vines: draw some vines with vegetables on

them. The last one write On top of the ground, draw lettuce. Color photos with labels of

vegetables.

Procedure: Start the lesson at circle time. Teacher asks What vegetables did you eat

last night? Let the children answer. Then say Where did those vegetables come

from? Let children answer again. Tell the children that vegetables are grown on a farm

before they come to the store, where your parents buy them. Show the children the

chart. Read what the title and the different categories say. Next, pass out the photos of

vegetables to each child, they will each gets a different one. Ask the children, What

vegetable do you have? (memory) The children answer. What color is your

vegetable? (memory) You ask the class next. The children answer again. The next

question you are going to ask is, Where on the chart does your vegetable belong?

(convergent) Then have the children one at time come up to chart and stick their

vegetable picture where they think it belongs. Once everyone has placed their photos

on the chart, ask the children How the vegetables are grown different? (convergent)

How are they grown the same? (convergent)

Simplification: Can use the teacher assistant if they dont know how the vegetables

are grown.

Extension: If children seem interested the with the chart, you can remove the vegetable

and sort them again. Tell me which vegetables are green that are grown on a tree.

(convergent)

Evaluation Method: Direct observation

What Next: If this lesson goes well the class will taste the different parts of the

vegetable plants.

Evaluation of appropriateness of the category (type) of questions used:

Answer the following question: Did you use the best categories of questions or could

you have improved by using different categories? Defend your position.

I feel that I did use questions that were developmentally appropriate for the age group.

The way the vegetables are sorted, helps show the children that we eat different parts

of vegetables.