Lesson Idea | Tree-Mendous Fruits

Description

Students explore different types of fruits that grow on trees and learn where and how they are grown. Through activities that involve investigating tree fruits, they discover their nutritional benefits. The lesson helps students understand the connection between fruit production and nutrition. It encourages students to learn more about tree fruits and their role in a healthy diet.

National Content Area Standards

• Social Studies – Geography
Geography Standard 11 (Grades 3-4): The patterns and networks of economic interdependence on Earth's surface.
Objective 2: Some locations are better suited than others to provide certain goods and services.
Objective 3: People and countries trade locally produced goods and services for goods and services that are produced in other places.

• Health/Nutrition
Health Standard 1: Comprehend functional health knowledge to enhance health.
1.5.2: Describe benefits of practicing health-promoting behaviors.
Health Standard 5: Demonstrate effective decision-making skills to enhance health.
5.5.6: Choose a health-promoting option that aligns with personal values when making an effective decision.

National Agricultural Literacy Outcomes

• Culture, Society, Economy & Geography
Provide examples of agricultural products available, but not produced in their local area and state (T5.3-5.e)
Explain the value of agriculture and how it is important in daily life. (T5.3-5.d)

• Food, Health & Lifestyle
Diagram the path of production for a processed product, from farm to table (T3.3-5.b)
Describe the necessary food components of a healthy diet using the current dietary guidelines (T3.3-5.a)
Identify food sources of required food nutrients (T3.3-5.g)

Common Core Standards

• Anchor Standards – Reading
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.1: Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

• Anchor Standards – Speaking and Listening
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.1: Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.2: Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.