Where Food Comes From

Content Objectives

Children will:

• Learn about the concept of how food gets to the market.
• Access prior knowledge and build background about farmers and markets.
• Explore and apply the concept of how food gets to the market.

Language Objectives

Children will:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the concept of how food gets to the market.
• Orally use words that describe food, farmers, and markets.
• Extend oral vocabulary by speaking about food, farmers, and markets.
• Use key concept words [farmer, market].

Other

Explain

• Use the slideshow to review the key concept words.
• Explain that children are going to learn about how food gets to the market:
• How food gets from a farm to a market.
• How food is grown on a farm by farmers
• What food is grown by farmers.

Model

• After the host introduces the slideshow, point to the photo on screen. Ask children: What do you see in this picture? (fruit, vegetables)
• Ask children: How did these fruits and vegetables grow? (answers may vary).
• Say: Today we are going to learn about food, farmers, and markets. Many foods that we eat are grown on a farm and then sold in markets. What do you buy when you go to the market? (answers will vary).

Guided Practice

• Guide children through the next four slides, showing them that food is grown on farms by farmers. Always have the children describe what they would like to grow.

Apply

• Play the games that follow. Have them discuss with their partner the different topics that appear during the Talk About It feature.
• After the first game, ask children to talk about other fruits and vegetables grown on a farm. After the second game, have them discuss the difference between fruit and vegetables. Then have them give examples of each.

Close

• Ask children: What are your favorite fruits and vegetables? Explain.
• Say: We would not be able to eat fruit and vegetables without a farmer growing them. Think about how you would thank a farmer if you saw one today.