Tasty Tomatoes: activities ages 5-7

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Create a tip-top lesson using our cross-curricular activities about tomatoes. Choose from a selection of topics aimed at 5- to 7-year-olds, covering subjects including English, science and design and technology.

Lesson highlights:

  • Investigate how a tomato grows
  • Learn about the different parts of the fruit and plant
  • Explore where tomatoes are grown throughout the world
  • Discuss different ways in which tomatoes are eaten

Curriculum

England

Speaking and listening

  • Ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and build vocabulary and knowledge.
  • Maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments

Science

  • Identify and name a variety of common plants, including garden plants, wild plants and trees, and those classified as deciduous and evergreen
  • Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers
  • Find out and describe how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy

Design and technology

  • Understand where food comes from
  • Prepare and cook a variety of predominantly savoury dishes using a range of cooking techniques
Scotland

Speaking and listening

  • I can show my understanding of what I listen to or watch by responding to and asking different kinds of questions

Science

  • I can help to design experiments to find out what plants need in order to grow and develop.
  • I can observe and record my findings and from what I have learned
  • I can grow healthy plants in school
  • By investigating the lifecycles of plants and animals, I can recognise the different stages of their development

Design and technology

  • By investigating the range of foods available I can discuss how they contribute to a healthy diet I experience a sense of enjoyment and achievement when preparing simple healthy foods and drinks
  • When preparing and cooking a variety of foods, I am becoming aware of the journeys which foods make from source to consumer, their seasonality, their local availability and their sustainability
Wales

Speaking and listening

  • Listen to and carry out instructions
  • View and listen carefully to a variety of visual and audio-visual stimuli
  • Experience a range of stimuli including: - Information texts - Media and ICT texts...
  • Listen and respond appropriately and effectively with growing attention and concentration

Science

  • To experience the familiar world through investigating the indoor and outdoor environment
  • Observe differences between animals and plants, different animals, and different plants in order to group them
  • Identify some animals and plants that live in the outdoor environment
  • Learn the names and uses of the main external parts of the human body and plants

Design and technology

  • Develop an understanding that exercise and hygiene and the right types of food and drink are important for healthy bodies
Northern Ireland

Speaking and listening

  • Participate in talking and listening in every area of learning, for example, discuss the benefits of a healthy lifestyle
  • Present ideas and information with some structure and sequence

Science

  • Show curiosity about the living things, places, objects and materials in the environment
  • Identify similarities and differences between living things, places, objects and materials
  • Understand the need to respect and care for themselves, other people, plants, animals and the environment

Design and technology

  • The importance of keeping healthy ...
  • Exemplar: being aware of how to care for his/her own body in order to keep it healthy and well, for example, by talking about which foods are healthy...

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