Instructor: Victoria Rivera

Lesson Title: Fruits and Vegetables

2015
Curriculum Area: Science
minutes

Grade Level: Pre-K

Date: November 10,
Estimated Time: 15

Standards Connection: M.P.5.3 Sort and classify objects using self-selected

criteria.
IEP Goals:
Student G will focus and listen on the teacher on 3/5 opportunities with
verbal prompting
Student K will be able to identify and use vocabulary words (color and shape)
on 3/5 opportunities.
Learning Objective: Students will be able to correctly identify one example
of a fruit and one example of a vegetable with 100% accuracy.
Kid Friendly Objective: Today, we are going to be learning about fruits and
vegetables!
Evaluation of Learning Objective: The teacher will present the students
with various fruits and vegetables on a table. The students will need to
identify one real life example of a fruit and one real life example of a
vegetable with 100% accuracy.
Engagement:
For the engagement portion of the lesson, the teacher will bring in various
fruits and vegetables for the students to look at. The teacher will allow the
students to explore how the fruits and vegetables feel and smell. Feel free to
take a look at the objects I have on the table. Can anyone tell me what these
objects are? The teacher will give time for students to respond. These are
fruits and vegetables! I would like for you all touch, smell, and look the fruits
and vegetables that are on the table. You can look at the similarities in their
color and shape. The teacher will give the students time to look at the fruits
and vegetables.
Design for Learning:
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Teaching: As you can tell from the objects that we just looked at,
there are lots of different fruits and vegetables that help keep our

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body healthy! Fruits and vegetables are full of vitamins and

minerals that help you to grow and stay strong. Fruits usually have
seeds and grow on trees or plants. The seeds in the fruit help to
grow new fruit, but dont worry, you can swallow the seeds and you
will not grow plants in your stomach. Seeds need sunlight and water
in order to grow! Fruits are also usually sweet. Now a vegetable is
very different. Vegetables do not have seeds! A vegetable is a plant
or part of a plant, such as the leaves or roots. Yesterday Mrs. Connie
talked about fruits and vegetables, can anyone tell me an example
of a fruit? The teacher will give time for student response. Good job!
Those are all great examples of fruit! Now, can anyone think of an
example of a vegetable? The teacher will give time for student
response. Very good! I can see that you all were paying attention
yesterday! Lets look at the poster board that I have in front of you.
I have two cards with words on them. One says fruits and the other
says vegetables. The teacher will then place both of the cards in
front of the students and ask them to identify the words fruits and
vegetables. The students will then place fruits on one side of the
poster and vegetables on the other. The teacher will then move into
the practice portion of the lesson.
Opportunity for Practice: The teacher will lay out cards that have a
picture of a fruit or vegetable along with the accompanying name of
the fruit or vegetable. I would like you guys to look at the cards on
the table. I would like for you to pick up a card and decide if you
think it is a fruit or a vegetable. If you think it is a fruit, you will put
it on the fruit side of the poster board. If you think it is a vegetable,
you will put it on the vegetable side of the poster board. We will
take turns picking cards and sticking them on the poster board! If
you do not know that right answer, that is okay! We are learning
and you do not have to know the right answer right away. The
teacher will allow each student to take turns and identify fruits and
vegetables.
Assessment: Now that we have a pretty good understanding about
different kinds of fruits and vegetables, I want you to identify a real
life example of a fruit and a vegetable. The teacher will use the
fruits and vegetables that were used in the engagement portion of
the lesson. Student A, can you show me an example of a fruit? The
student will pick up a fruit. Very good! Student B, can you show me
an example of a fruit? The student will pick up a fruit. Awesome!
Those are both great examples of fruit! Student A, can you show

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me an example of a vegetable? The student will pick up a

vegetable! Great! Student B, can you show me an example of a
vegetable? The student will pick up a vegetable. Good job,
everyone! I am so proud of you guys!
Closure: The teacher will allow students to create their own print of
the fruits and vegetables used in the beginning of the lesson. Lets
look back at the vegetables from the beginning part of the lesson.
Can we group any of these by color or shape? The teacher will give
time for students to respond. Very good! Now, we are going to
create a print using these fruits and vegetables! We are going to
dip the different items into paint and put them on our paper! Lets
get started! The teacher will then start the activity.

Differentiation Strategies:
Accommodations: The teacher will use small group instruction during her
lesson to help maximize the learning of all students. The teacher will also use
tangible objects for the students to relate the information that they are
learning. The teacher will also use a visual for the students to look at during
the lesson. The teacher will use a large strip of Velcro for students with lower
gross and fine motor abilities.
Materials and Resources:
Various fruits and vegetables
Poster board
Picture cards
Velcro
Paint
Print paper
Reflection:
I thought that this lesson went very well. This was my first lesson taught in
preschool and I was quite nervous because I have always taught older kids. It
actually took me a long time to plan this lesson because I did not know where to
begin. In this lesson, I created a poster board with Velcro on it for students to
correctly place fruits and vegetables on the appropriate side of the poster. This
served as a great visual for the kids that I worked with. The students were able to

find pictures of a fruit or vegetable and identify whether it was a fruit or vegetable.
Some students needed more help with this than others. Fruits and vegetables is a
difficult concept for students to understand because the rules of fruits and
vegetables are not always constant. Students had a difficult time understanding
that both fruits and vegetables can have seeds, but most students believed that
only fruits had seeds because this is what their parents taught them. In this lesson,
all of the students met the learning objective. Some students needed more support
than other students did. I found that working with more than three students was too
much for this type of small group lesson. Mrs. Connie did not allow her aides to help
me, which was a bit of a challenge for me because I was not their teacher and were
not used to me teaching them. I could have used their help when I was dealing with
children that had difficult behavior. It was a bit difficult for me to try and group
these students together because I did not know them as well as their teachers. I did
my best to place students together but was rushed at the end and just threw
students together. I should have taken more time to plan the grouping of students. I
also think that I could have taken this lesson even further if I had more time,
however, I was overwhelmed with how much I had to do already and dont think I
could have handled doing more.

Fruits

Vegetabl
es

Corn

Lettuce

Carrot

Broccoli

Potato

Apple

Orange

Banana

Strawberry

Watermelon