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WORKBOOK

Edible SCHOOLGARDEN Program

3SPRING • GRADE

VERSION: AUGUST 2016 © JHU CAIH

The Champion Cheer!

We drink WATER ‘cause it’s fun,

feels good, and makes us strong!

We enjoy FRUITS AND VEGGIES all day long!

6 cups of water,

5 fruits and veggies,

4 a healthy me!

We grow our own GARDEN with our own hands-

We love our TRADITIONS and we love our

LAND!

Water is life!

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Taste Test Observations

Instructions: Fill out the questions below after tasting your vegetable.

1. Date: 2. What vegetable are you tasting?

3. In a complete sentence, describe how the vegetable tastes:

4. Circle your response...

I liked it I loved it I tried it

5. Was your veggie crunchy?

Yes or No

6. Would you try this veggie again?

Yes No Maybe

7. What color is your vegetable?

8. What part of the plant is your vegetable? Circle your answer.

Root Stem Leaf Flower Seed Fruit

9. What do you like most about the vegetable you tasted?

10. Please use the space below to draw the vegetable:

Spring Lesson 1 – Grade 3 2

Reviewing the 5 Food Groups

Instructions: Draw a line to match the 5 food groups to the 5 nutrients.

1) Grain 1) Calcium

2) Fruit 2) Vitamin C

3) Vegetable 3) Vitamin A

4) Protein 4) Carbohydrates

5) Dairy 5) Protein

Instructions: Draw a line to match the 5 nutrient to the 5 nutrient

functions.

1) Calcium 1) Energy

2) Vitamin C 2) Eyes

3) Vitamin A 3) Muscles

4) Carbohydrates 4) Bones

5) Protein 5) Immune system, heals cuts and burns


Orange

Eating a Rainbow

Green

Blue

and

Purple

Spring Lesson 1 – Grade 3

Instructions: On the next page, you will find

pictures of fruits and vegetables.

Color in the different fruits and

vegetables to help make a nutrition

rainbow! Cut them out and paste

them on the rainbow below.

Red

Yellow

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tomato watermelon red pepper guava pink grapefruit strawberry

apricot carrot orange cantaloupe sweet potato pumpkin

corn yellow apple pineapple summer squash lemon banana

broccoli cucumber avocado green beans celery cauliflower

blackberry blueberry grapes plum purple cabbage

eggplant




1. Date:

2. What vegetable are you tasting?


4. Circle your response…



Yes or No


Yes No Maybe






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How Much Water is in Your Body?

Instructions: Color in the person below with the amount of water you

think is in a human body.


Water – Sweet Drinks




1. Date:

2. What vegetable are you tasting?


4. Circle your response…



Yes or No


Yes No Maybe







Food Chain

Instructions: Draw pictures in the boxes to show the food chain that traces a food (cheese) back

to where it started (the sun). Include these five links and place them in the correct order: grass,

the sun, milk, cheese and a cow.


1 2 3 4 5

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Yes or No


Yes No Maybe







Precipitation

Instructions: We will measure the rainfall in each of the jars provided

by the teacher. Make a prediction for how much precipitation is in each

jar. Then write down the actual measurements:

Jar Number: 1 2 3 4 5

Prediction:

Inches/centimeters

Actual

Measurement:

Inches/centimeters


Let’s measure rainfall by looking at our rain gauges!

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Source: Discovery Education's Clip Art Gallery created by Mark A. Kicks, illustrator

Water Hunt

1. WATER LOCATION #1: _________________________

a. How is the water being used?

_____________________________________________

b. Where did the water come from?

_____________________________________________

2. WATER LOCATION #2: _________________________


_____________________________________________


_____________________________________________

3. WATER LOCATION #3: _________________________


_____________________________________________


_____________________________________________

Instructions: Find three places or things where there is water near the school.


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Yes or No


Yes No Maybe







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Soil Discovery

Instructions: Answer the questions below.

Station 1 – What is soil made up of?

1. What is the color of your soil? ______________________________

2. What other things did you find in your soil?

_________________________________________________________

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3. What are the size and shape of the soil particles?

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4. Sift through your soil. What do you see differently?

_________________________________________________________

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Station 2 – The Texture of Soil

5. What is texture?

_________________________________________________________

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6. What are the three parts of soil?

a. ______________________

b. ______________________

c. ______________________

7. The teacher will put a droplet of water into your soil sample.

Let’s determine what kind of soil you have:

a. Is your soil rough and gritty? Yes No

b. Is your soil thick and sticky? Yes No

c. Is your soil silky and smooth? Yes No

8. If your soil is rough and gritty, what kind of soil do you have?

___________________________________

9. If your soil is thick and sticky when wet, what kind of soil do you

have?

___________________________________

10. If your soil is silky and smooth when wet, what kind of soil do you

have?

___________________________________









Yes or No


Yes No Maybe







Discovering Seeds

Center A – Seed Dissection

Instructions: Draw a picture of your bean and nut.

Parts to label: seed coat, embryo, cotyledon

Bean Nut


embryo

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1. How are the two seeds (the bean and the nut) similar?

_________________________________________________________

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2. How are the two seeds (the bean and the nut) different?

_________________________________________________________

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Center B – Seed Tasting

Seed Name Observations How did it taste?


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3. Which seeds were your favorites?

________________________________________________________

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4. Which seeds would you eat again?

________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________


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Yes or No


Yes No Maybe







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Bones and You

Instructions: Fill in the sentences below with

the correct word from the word bank.

You will not use all of the words.

1. There are ________ bones in my body.

2. The smallest bone in my body is my

_____________________________________.

3. The strongest bone in my body is my

_____________________________________.

4. Bones help me to stand because they

________________________ my body.

5. Bones like the skull and the rib cage

________________________ my body.

6. ________________________ helps build my

bones and make them strong. I get it from foods like

________________________.

Word Bank:

Ear Rice Milk

Support Leg Protect

Foot Calcium


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Calcium Rich Foods that Build Strong

Bones and Teeth

1. Draw and label your favorite calcium rich food in the space below.

examples: Milk, yogurt, cheese, broccoli, spinach, almonds, beans, breakfast cereals,

kale and other leafy greens like spinach.

2. True or False: Calcium makes our bones and teeth strong. ________________

3. True or False: Milk and cheese are the only calcium rich foods. ____________

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Yes or No


Yes No Maybe







Rotten Food

1. Draw a picture of the fresh fruit:

2. Draw a picture of the rotten fruit:


3. What do you think the fruit will look like in two months?


Measuring Our Compost Pile

Instructions: Answer the questions below.

1. What was the temperature of the compost? _________

2. Do you think the temperature will change over time? _________

3. Draw or write down what you saw in the compost pile:

______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________

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4. Do you think the way the pile looks will change over time?

_____________________









Yes or No


Yes No Maybe






Spring Lesson 9 - Grade 3 Spring Lesson 9 – Grade 3

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Flowers in Bloom

Instructions: Draw a picture of your flower before dissection.

1. What observations did you make while exploring the flower?

_________________________________________________________

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Flower Dissection: Identifying Parts of a Flower

Instructions: As you dissect your flower, tape or draw these parts in the

box below. Label them: petal, pollen, pistil, stamen

1. Observations and notes about flower parts:

_________________________________________________

_________________________________________________

_________________________________________________

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Food Preference Study

Plant Snack How Many I Ate

Observations: What does it look like? What does it

feel like? How does it taste?

Instructions: Which plant snacks do you like to eat? Write down

the name of each plant snack. Circle the one you think will be the

class favorite. Use this chart to keep track of how many plant

snacks you eat during this activity.


1. What was the favorite class snack at the beginning of the year?

___________________________________________________

2. What is the class favorite now?

___________________________________________________

3. What plant snacks do you like now better than you did at the

beginning of the year?

___________________________________________________


My Daily Five

Instructions: Outline your hand in the box below. In each finger, write

down one favorite fruit or vegetable and draw a picture of it. Write down

at least 2 fruits and 2 vegetables. The last finger can be either one.

Spring, Grade 4 Lesson 9: Fruits and Veggies!


Evaluation Questions: Review

Lesson 1 - Eating a Rainbow

1. What are the 5 basic food groups?

2. What does eating a balanced diet mean?

3. Why do we need to eat a variety of foods?

4. What does “eating a rainbow” mean?

5. Why do we need to eat different color of fruits and vegetables?

Lesson 2 – Be Sugar Smart!

1. What types of drinks have a lot of sugar in them?

2. Name a healthy drink with no sugar in it.

3. How much sugar is in a 20-ounce bottle of coke?

4. How much of your body is made of water?

Lesson 3 – The Fantastic Food Chain

1. What is a food chain?

2. What do all food chains start with?

3. Do all food chains include plants?

4. How do you trace cheese back to the sun?

5. How can a food chain be broken?

Lesson 4 – Water and Precipitation

1. What does the word “precipitation” mean?

2. Where does precipitation come from?

3. Do we need precipitation for our garden to grow?

4. If it doesn’t rain for a while, should we water our garden more or

less?

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Lesson 5 – All About Soil

1. What are the three basic parts of soil?

2. What part of the soil is thick and sticky when wet?

3. What part of the soil is rough and gritty?

4. What part of the soil is silky and smooth?

Lesson 6 – Discovering Seeds

1. What does a seed do for a plant?

2. What part of the seed is the baby plant?

3. What does the seed coat do?

4. What does the cotyledon do for the seed?

Lesson 7 – Calcium Makes My Bones and Teeth Strong

1. Name 2 things your bones do for the body.

2. What happens to your bones if you don’t eat enough calcium?

3. How many servings of calcium rich foods do you need to eat every

day?

4. What are some examples of calcium rich foods?

5. Besides eating calcium rich foods, what else can we do to build

strong bones and teeth?

Lesson 8 – The Rotten Pile

1. What does decompose mean?

2. What does rotting food do for our soil?

3. What is compost?

4. What can you find that is decomposing in the soil?


Lesson 9 – Plant Parts: Identifying Parts of a Flower

1. How do flowers attract pollinators?

2. What do flowers do for the plant; what is their purpose?

3. What is the stamen?

4. What is the pistil?

5. What does pollen do?

Lesson 10 – Our Favorite Fruits and Vegetables

1. How have the food preferences of the class changed over the year?

2. What are some health benefits of eating fruits?

3. What was the favorite plant food of the class?

4. What are some health benefits of eating vegetables?


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