Eat More Fruit and Vegetables - The Complete Series (5 lessons)

With lesson plans, informative slides, differentiated worksheets, Picture Cards and more, these Year 1 'Eat More Fruit and Vegetables' lessons are the perfect recipe for your DT teaching!

You might find this FREE Eatwell Plate a handy accompaniment to these lessons!

This scheme is part of a Topic Bundle - perfect if you are teaching 'Healthy Me' as a cross-curricular topic!

The first lesson in this series begins by identifying fruits and vegetables that the children are familiar with before finding out what the most popular fruits and vegetables in the class are. The children will gather data to create a pictogram showing who likes which fruits and vegetables best. 

This lesson starts by thinking of interesting words that can be used to describe vegetables in terms of their taste, appearance, smell and texture. Your class will then have the chance to explore some different fruits and vegetables for themselves by tasting, touching, looking and smelling so that they can use adjectives to describe what they have found out.

This practical lesson teaches your children some of the ways in which different fruits and vegetables need to be prepared before they can be eaten, such as through washing, peeling or grating. They will then get the chance to try some of these preparations for themselves through a variety of fun activities. 

This fun lesson gives your class the chance to design and plan a fruit or vegetable salad or a smoothie. They will need to think about which fruits and vegetables to use, how they will prepare them for eating and how the fruits and vegetables will be arranged to make them look appetising.

The final lesson in this series allows your class to follow their designs to make their healthy creations. They will then have the chance to eat their tasty snacks before evaluating how well they think they did.