Summary of Lessons:

1. Plant ABCs
   The objective of this lesson is to identify the main parts of a plant and explain their functions. It also highlights the fact that our foods come from different plant parts. Activities recommended for this lesson include creating your own plant, making a root view box and charting the different plant parts that we consume.

2. Plants at Work
   With this lesson, students learn about some of the key processes of plants and about their importance in our world. Activities recommended for this lesson include making a seed viewer, conducting light experiments, watching water movement in plants and observing the different stages of plant growth.

3. Origins of New Plants
   This lesson teaches students how to start their own plants and gives them more practical knowledge about growing plants. Activities recommended for this lesson include radish spacing experiments, starting new plants from stem and leaf cuttings, planting seeds in trays to be transplanted into gardens and watching carrot tops grow.

4. Plants Eat, Too!
   This lesson serves to introduce students and teachers to the things that plants need to grow. All of the activities explore garden soil. The recommended activities include performing a soil test, creating a soil recipe and conducting experiments about growing seeds or plants in different soils.

5. Food Guide Pyramid
   This lesson emphasizes nutrition knowledge and discusses the food guide pyramid and the general daily intake requirements. It also shows how plants are integral to all levels of the pyramid. Activities recommended for this lesson include tracing food origins, planning a menu and creating "Five-a-Day" brochures.

6. You Are What You Eat With this lesson, students learn about the necessary vitamins and nutrients for proper nutrition and relate vitamins and nutrients to fruit and vegetable intake. Activities recommended for this lesson include testing food for nutrient content, creating a vitamins and minerals brochure, designing an edible garden and spotlighting individual vegetables.

7. Going To The Market This lesson teaches students how to learn to be informed consumers of fruits and vegetables. Activities recommended for this lesson include reading nutrition labels, judging fruits and vegetables, asking experts about processing and exploring the packaging and marketing of carrots.

8. Safety First Safety is very important for gardening and food preparation. The objective of this lesson is to teach students how to safely harvest fruits and vegetables and how to properly handle and store foods. Related activities include demonstrating how to harvest fruits and vegetables, creating posters listing safety tips and cleaning vegetables.

9. Cook Up a Storm This lesson serves to teach students some basics about food preparation and participate in some hands-on experiences. It gives them the opportunity to taste various fruits and vegetables. Activities recommended for this lesson include creating a class recipe book, tasting uncommon fruits and vegetables and cooking with fruits and vegetables.

10. Health Smart This lesson outlines ways to discover resources in your community and throughout the world to help with nutrition education. Recommended activities include bringing in a nutrition related guest speaker, searching the internet for nutrition sites and writing letters to national nutrition agencies.