Colourful and seasonal vegetables – Lesson 3 Year 7

In this lesson students will learn about the attributes of vegetables.

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Seasonality is the topic for lesson three of our Food Technology: Year 7 unit plan.

In this vegetable-focused lesson, students will learn about the attributes (colour and cuts) of vegetables and that some vegetables are grown all year and others are seasonal. Buying New Zealand-grown vegetables when they are in season is more economical than buying imported varieties. Students will learn skills for preparing vegetables to make a salad bowl.

Download the whole lesson plan as a kit or “pick and mix” information to suit your students.

Recipes

• Build a salad bowl (PDF)

Activity sheets

• Vegetable maze activity - student copy (PDF)
• Vegetable maze activity - teacher copy (PDF)

Evaluation

• Evaluation (PDF)

Skill cards

• Beetroot (PDF)
• Cabbage (PDF)
• Carrot (PDF)
• Cucumber (PDF)
• Lettuce (PDF)
• Rice (PDF)
• Sweetcorn (PDF)
• Tomato (PDF)

How-to videos

• Slice cabbage
• Slice tomato
• Chop parsley