Plant Parts Salad
Students will harvest vegetables from the garden, taste a variety of plants andlearn about their nutritional value. Students will learn parts of a plant bymaking a ‘plant parts salad.’
Subject: Health & Nutrition|Science
Chemistry in the Kitchen
Students will complete the red cabbage chemistry experiment to observe a chemical change. Then students will demo multiple recipes and classify the changes as physical or chemical, including: mixing a salad, making a smoothie, making popsicles, making sun tea, making pancakes, observing oxidizing apples, sauteing a vegetable.
Singing a Plant Parts Song and Exploring in the Garden
Students will identify the parts of a plant: root, stem, leaf, and flower.
Tasting the Plant Parts
Students will harvest vegetables from the school garden (or another source) to make a salad that contains all the parts of a plant: leaves, stems, roots, flowers, and fruits, seeds or nuts.
Introducing Plant Parts We Eat and Sorting Plant Parts
Students will be able to explain which vegetables come from which parts of a plant, based on the functions of different plant parts. Students will also understand that a variety of fruits and vegetables of different colors provides the widest nutritional value.