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Lesson 1: Fruit or vegetable?

Learning to distinguish fruits from vegetables, and putting this knowledge into practice, handling and categorising a selection of fruits and vegetables.

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Learning objective

To identify if a food is a fruit or a vegetable

National curriculum

Design and technology

Cooking and nutrition

Pupils should be taught to:

Understand where food comes from.

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

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Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: Will need the language of the lesson (fruit and vegetable names) and what they are looking for, reinforced through repetition.

Pupils working at greater depth: Should be allowed to examine the foods in more detail, perhaps with a magnifying glass. They may be encouraged to start naming other parts of the fruits and vegetables, for example, stem, leaves, root.

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

In this unit

Created by:

Tom Turnham,

Design and technology specialist

Tom has been a teacher for seven years and, as Head of Upper School at The Belham Primary School, he has a keen interest in young people and good causes. For the past seventeen years he has volunteered with various…

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