Melbourne Infant School - DT - Fruit Salad - Year1

Lesson Objectives Activity Resources
1 To know that there are a wide variety of fruit and vegetables and name them.To begin to develop a sensory vocabulary. TI: Introduce the topic with the Topic assessment Sheet. Show the children a variety of fruits and vegetables, including some more unusual varieties. Discuss what they are called and identify the countries (Use Teacher Food Map) where they are grown.Activity: Allow the children to explore pieces of the fruit and vegetables on their tables, taking a closer look tables with magnifying glasses/ spoons….Children to choose a fruit or vegetable to paint / colour, labelling it’s parts (AA Writing sentences to describe their fruit / veg) Plenary: Allow the children to taste some pre-prepared fruit, discussing the sensory vocabulary. FruitsMagnifying glassesPaper / Paint / Oil Pastels / Chalk…Sensory wordsTeacher Food Map
2 To know that there are a wide variety of fruit and vegetables and name them.To begin to develop a sensory vocabulary.To group fruits according to their sensory and other properties. TI: Remind the children of the sensory words discuss in yesterdays plenary and display on whiteboard. Remind the children of a Venn diagram. Using drawn pictures of the fruit, discuss with the children the possible categories, and model grouping the fruit according to it’s sensory properties.Activity: Children work in a mixed ability groups to taste and group a selection of fruit and vegetables, according to it’s properties. Record as a Venn diagram.Plenary: Fruit and VegetablesVenn DiagramSensory words
3 To understand that fruit and vegetables have nutritional value and are an important part of our diet.To know that fruit and vegetables may require treatment before being eaten and know what treatment is required.To use a sensory vocabulary. TI: Discuss with the children why we need to eat fruit and vegetables? Why do we need them? Explain the importance of fruit and vegetables in our diet. Introduce the main activity, using the PowerPoint Presentation (P:/katiec/planning/topic activities/DT/Making a salad). Discuss how today we are going to design a salad that will make people want to eat more fruit and vegetables. Model designing a salad using fruit and vegetables, choosing foods with different colours, different sensory words to describe them and how you might display the food. Activity: Children design their own salad, labelling the foods and using sensory vocabulary to describe it. List ingredients required.Plenary: Evaluate the different salad designs. In mixed ability groups, children choose their preferred salad which they will make in lesson 4. Fruit and vegetablesIWB / PowerPoint presentationDesign sheetSensory, fruit and vegetable vocabulary
4 To understand that fruit and vegetables have nutritional value and are an important part of our diet.To know that fruit and vegetables may require treatment before being eaten and know what treatment is required.To use simple tools. TI: Introduce today’s activity with the PowerPoint presentation – p:katiec/planning/ topic activities/ DT/ Making the salad. Discuss and model the required treatments and preparation of the fruits and vegetables. Remind the children to follow their design carefully, working in their group. Activity: Children to work in their teams to follow their chosen design plans and prepare their salad, using the appropriate tools. Plenary: Children to display their finish product and all children to evaluate the salads they have made. Eat the salads and continue with evaluation, using sensory vocabulary. Complete assessment sheet. Fruit and vegetablesPreparation equipmentAssessment sheet