Lesson Plan
Fruit and Veggie Mix-Up!
Let’s eat! In this food-themed lesson, students will explore categorizing foods such as fruits and vegetables. This lesson can easily be integrated into a unit on food and can be extended to include other types of food.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to classify different kinds of food, grouping similar foods together. Students will be able to justify why they grouped some foods together and other foods separately. Students will be able to use the skill of categorizing objects.
Introduction
(10 minutes)- Have the students sit in a circle on the carpet.
- Explain that a category is a group that has objects or things that are alike in some way. Different objects can be placed into different groups.
- Display the What Belongs in a Lunchbox worksheet. Ask students to share responses.
- Place two large pieces of construction paper on the floor in the center of the circle to show the creation of different categories.
- Take out some play food from a paper bag, and ask the students to first name the types of food.
- Tell the students that the word similar means that two things are alike or the same in some way.
- Next, ask the students which foods are alike and which foods fit in the same category.
- Challenge students to describe how the foods they chose are similar.