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Fruit Kebabs & Patterns
Published August 30, 2012
| Updated September 28, 2012
Subject: Math, Science, Art
Season: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
Place of Learning: Kitchen Classroom, Academic Classroom
Resource Type: Lessons
Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2
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In this lesson, students harvest and prepare seasonal fruit in order to put together their own fruit kebabs, while learning about patterns and pattern recognition.
Objectives
Students will be able to:
- Identify fruit ready for harvest
- Develop fine motor skills
- Sort fruit according to variety, color (or size or shape)
- Recognize a pattern
- Create a pattern
- Copy a pattern
- Extend a pattern
Assessments
Students will be able to:
- Correctly identify which fruits are ready for harvest
- Successfully prepare fruit (with teachers help if necessary) using tools such as hands to peel and separate orange segements, spoons to scoop seeds, melon ball scoops to make round shapes, etc.
- Correclty sort fruit into groups
- Correctly identify a pattern
- Correctly create their own pattern
- Correctly copy a pattern
- Correctly extend a pattern
Materials
- Different types of fruit (at least 4)
- Bowls for fruit
- Bowls for seeds, compost, etc
- Melon ball scoops
- Bamboo skewers for kebabs
Preparation
- Make sure you have a variety of fresh fruit growing in the garden, or take a trip to a local farmer's market to purchase fruit as part of the lesson
- Create a poster or discuss examples of patterns. If the lesson takes place in the garden, be sure to look for patterns in nature.
Procedures
- Wash/prepare fruit to use for the kebab: wash berries, let students peel and segment oranges, scoop seeds out of melons, use melon ball scoops for canteloupe or watermelon (all ages love this!)
- Ask students to sort each type of fruit into bowls
- Talk about patterns and examples of patterns- anything the students might be working on by color or shape or size
- Give each student 2 bamboo skewers (don't forget to talk about using caution with the sharp end &safety)
- Model a pattern and ask students to copy the pattern and then extend the pattern on the first bamboo skewer
- Now ask students to create their own pattern on the second skewer
Extensions:
Older students can work in pairs to make more complicated patterns and copy each others pattern.
Teacher & students might also make a yogurt dip to eat with the fruit kebabs.
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Type: Lessons
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