Fruits & Vegetables

Key message

Make half your plate fruits and vegetables

Objectives

As a result of this lesson, participants will be able to:

Basic

• Explain the health benefits of eating different fruits and vegetables

• Recognize foods in the fruits and vegetables groups.

• Strategize ways to add more fruits and vegetables to their meals

Advanced

• Identify the different ways fruit and vegetables can be purchased or preserved (fresh, frozen, canned, dried, and juiced)

• Know where to find seasonal fruits and vegetables

Supplies and prep

• Share the vocabulary list and writing exercise for this lesson with your ELL teaching partner one week before the class date. 

• Select activities from the menu of activities in this lesson. Which ones suit your learners? How many do you have time for?

• Shop for, print and prepare materials you will need. See the supplies list in this lesson. 

• Technology: Check that wifi will allow you to show slides, videos and play music. If not, download slides and videos to a device that can run them in the room you will be using for class. 

Core activities in this lesson

• Focused breathing

• Do you ...  Fruits and vegetables

• Identify produce from photo cards

• Eat a rainbow: Identify fruit by name and color

• Half of your plate:  Sort foods onto MyPlate

• Move to the music

• Cook and taste

• Say and write the vocab words

Optional activities for advanced English language learners

• Saving money on produce

• Identify forms of produce

• Writing practice: sentences

Optional for all learners

• Ragged start: Sample forms of produce

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