WORKBOOK ANSWER KEY 3 SPRING GRADE Edible SCHOOL GARDEN Program VERSION: AUGUST 2016 JHU CAIH
The Champion Cheer! We drink WATER cause it s fun, feels good, and makes us strong! We enjoy FRUITS AND VEGGIES all day long! 6 cups of water, 5 fruits and veggies, 4 a healthy me! We grow our own GARDEN with our own hands- We love our TRADITIONS and we love our LAND! Water is life! 1
Taste Test Observations Instructions: Fill out the questions below after tasting your vegetable. 1. Date: 2. What vegetable are you tasting? 3. In a complete sentence, describe how the vegetable tastes: 4. Circle your response... I liked it I loved it I tried it 6. Would you try this veggie again? 5. Was your veggie crunchy? Yes or No 7. What color is your vegetable? Yes No Maybe 8. What part of the plant is your vegetable? Circle your answer. Root Stem Leaf Flower Seed Fruit 9. What do you like most about the vegetable you tasted? 10. Please use the space below to draw the vegetable: Spring Lesson 1 Grade 3 2
Reviewing the 5 Food Groups Instructions: Draw a line to match the 5 food groups to the 5 nutrients. 1) Grain 1) Calcium 2) Fruit 2) Vitamin C 3) Vegetable 3) Vitamin A 4) Protein 4) Carbohydrates 5) Dairy 5) Protein Instructions: Draw a line to match the 5 nutrient to the 5 nutrient functions. 1) Calcium 1) Energy 2) Vitamin C 2) Eyes 3) Vitamin A 3) Muscles 4) Carbohydrates 4) Bones 5) Protein 5) Immune system, heals cuts and burns Spring Lesson 1 Grade 3 3
Instructions: On the next page, you will find pictures of fruits and vegetables. Color in the different fruits and vegetables to help make a nutrition rainbow! Cut them out and paste them on the rainbow below. Red Eating a Rainbow Yellow Orange Green Blue and Purple Spring Lesson 1 Grade 3 4
tomato watermelon red pepper guava pink grapefruit strawberry apricot carrot orange cantaloupe sweet potato pumpkin corn yellow apple pineapple summer squash lemon banana broccoli cucumber avocado green beans celery cauliflower blackberry blueberry grapes plum purple cabbage eggplant Spring Lesson 1 Grade 3 5
Taste Test Observations Instructions: Fill out the questions below after tasting your vegetable. 1. Date: 2. What vegetable are you tasting? 3. In a complete sentence, describe how the vegetable tastes: 4. Circle your response I liked it I loved it I tried it 5. Was your veggie crunchy? Yes or No 6. Would you try this veggie again? 7. What color is your vegetable? Yes No Maybe 8. What part of the plant is your vegetable? Circle your answer. Root Stem Leaf Flower Seed Fruit 9. What do you like most about the vegetable you tasted? 10. Please use the space below to draw the vegetable: Spring Lesson 2 Grade 3 6
How Much Water is in Your Body? Instructions: Color in the person below with the amount of water you think is in a human body. Spring Lesson 2 Grade 3 7
Water Sweet Drinks Spring Lesson 2 Grade 3 8
Water Sweet Drinks Spring Lesson 2 Grade 3 9
Taste Test Observations Instructions: Fill out the questions below after tasting your vegetable. 1. Date: 2. What vegetable are you tasting? 3. In a complete sentence, describe how the vegetable tastes: 4. Circle your response I liked it I loved it I tried it 5. Was your veggie crunchy? Yes or No 6. Would you try this veggie again? 7. What color is your vegetable? Yes No Maybe 8. What part of the plant is your vegetable? Circle your answer. Root Stem Leaf Flower Seed Fruit 9. What do you like most about the vegetable you tasted? 10. Please use the space below to draw the vegetable: Spring Lesson 3 Grade 3 10
Food Chain Instructions: Draw pictures in the boxes to show the food chain that traces a food (cheese) back to where it started (the sun). Include these five links and place them in the correct order: grass, the sun, milk, cheese and a cow. 1 2 3 4 5 cheese milk cow grass sun Spring Lesson 3 Grade 3 11
Taste Test Observations Instructions: Fill out the questions below after tasting your vegetable. 1. Date: 2. What vegetable are you tasting? 3. In a complete sentence, describe how the vegetable tastes: 4. Circle your response... I liked it I loved it I tried it 6. Would you try this veggie again? 5. Was your veggie crunchy? Yes or No 7. What color is your vegetable? Yes No Maybe 8. What part of the plant is your vegetable? Circle your answer. Root Stem Leaf Flower Seed Fruit 9. What do you like most about the vegetable you tasted? 10. Please use the space below to draw the vegetable: Spring Lesson 4 Grade 3 12
Precipitation Let s measure rainfall by looking at our rain gauges! Instructions: We will measure the rainfall in each of the jars provided by the teacher. Make a prediction for how much precipitation is in each jar. Then write down the actual measurements: Jar Number: 1 2 3 4 5 Prediction: Inches/centimeters Actual Measurement: Inches/centimeters Source: Discovery Education's Clip Art Gallery created by Mark A. Kicks, illustrator Spring Lesson 4 Grade 3 13
Water Hunt Instructions: Find three places or things where there is water near the school. 1. WATER LOCATION #1: a. How is the water being used? b. Where did the water come from? 2. WATER LOCATION #2: a. How is the water being used? b. Where did the water come from? 3. WATER LOCATION #3: a. How is the water being used? b. Where did the water come from? Spring Lesson 4 Grade 3 14
Taste Test Observations Instructions: Fill out the questions below after tasting your vegetable. 1. Date: 2. What vegetable are you tasting? 3. In a complete sentence, describe how the vegetable tastes: 4. Circle your response... I liked it I loved it I tried it 6. Would you try this veggie again? 5. Was your veggie crunchy? Yes or No 7. What color is your vegetable? Yes No Maybe 8. What part of the plant is your vegetable? Circle your answer. Root Stem Leaf Flower Seed Fruit 9. What do you like most about the vegetable you tasted? 10. Please use the space below to draw the vegetable: Spring Lesson 5 Grade 3 15
Soil Discovery Instructions: Answer the questions below. Station 1 What is soil made up of? 1. What is the color of your soil? 2. What other things did you find in your soil? 3. What are the size and shape of the soil particles? 4. Sift through your soil. What do you see differently? Station 2 The Texture of Soil 5. What is texture? Spring Lesson 5 Grade 3 16
6. What are the three parts of soil? a. b. c. 7. The teacher will put a droplet of water into your soil sample. Let s determine what kind of soil you have: a. Is your soil rough and gritty? Yes No b. Is your soil thick and sticky? Yes No c. Is your soil silky and smooth? Yes No 8. If your soil is rough and gritty, what kind of soil do you have? 9. If your soil is thick and sticky when wet, what kind of soil do you have? 10. If your soil is silky and smooth when wet, what kind of soil do you have? Spring Lesson 5 Grade 3 17
Taste Test Observations Instructions: Fill out the questions below after tasting your vegetable. 1. Date: 2. What vegetable are you tasting? 3. In a complete sentence, describe how the vegetable tastes: 4. Circle your response... I liked it I loved it I tried it 6. Would you try this veggie again? 5. Was your veggie crunchy? Yes or No 7. What color is your vegetable? Yes No Maybe 8. What part of the plant is your vegetable? Circle your answer. Root Stem Leaf Flower Seed Fruit 9. What do you like most about the vegetable you tasted? 10. Please use the space below to draw the vegetable: Spring Lesson 6 Grade 3 18
Discovering Seeds embryo Center A Seed Dissection Instructions: Draw a picture of your bean and nut. Parts to label: seed coat, embryo, cotyledon Bean Nut Spring Lesson 6 Grade 3 19
1. How are the two seeds (the bean and the nut) similar? 2. How are the two seeds (the bean and the nut) different? Center B Seed Tasting Seed Name Observations How did it taste? Spring Lesson 6 Grade 3 20
3. Which seeds were your favorites? 4. Which seeds would you eat again? Spring Lesson 6 Grade 3 21
Taste Test Observations Instructions: Fill out the questions below after tasting your vegetable. 1. Date: 2. What vegetable are you tasting? 3. In a complete sentence, describe how the vegetable tastes: 4. Circle your response... I liked it I loved it I tried it 6. Would you try this veggie again? 5. Was your veggie crunchy? Yes or No 7. What color is your vegetable? Yes No Maybe 8. What part of the plant is your vegetable? Circle your answer. Root Stem Leaf Flower Seed Fruit 9. What do you like most about the vegetable you tasted? 10. Please use the space below to draw the vegetable: Spring Lesson 7 Grade 3 22
Bones and You Instructions: Fill in the sentences below with the correct word from the word bank. You will not use all of the words. 1. There are 203 bones in my body. Word Bank: Ear Rice Milk Support Leg Protect Foot Calcium 2. The smallest bone in my body is my Ear. 3. The strongest bone in my body is my Leg. 4. Bones help me to stand because they Support my body. 5. Bones like the skull and the rib cage Protect my body. 6. Calcium helps build my bones and make them strong. I get it from foods like Milk. Spring Lesson 7 Grade 3 23
Calcium Rich Foods that Build Strong Bones and Teeth 1. Draw and label your favorite calcium rich food in the space below. examples: Milk, yogurt, cheese, broccoli, spinach, almonds, beans, breakfast cereals, kale and other leafy greens like spinach. 2. True or False: Calcium makes our bones and teeth strong. True 3. True or False: Milk and cheese are the only calcium rich foods. False Spring Lesson 7 - Grade 3 24
Taste Test Observations Instructions: Fill out the questions below after tasting your vegetable. 1. Date: 2. What vegetable are you tasting? 3. In a complete sentence, describe how the vegetable tastes: 4. Circle your response... I liked it I loved it I tried it 6. Would you try this veggie again? 5. Was your veggie crunchy? Yes or No 7. What color is your vegetable? Yes No Maybe 8. What part of the plant is your vegetable? Circle your answer. Root Stem Leaf Flower Seed Fruit 9. What do you like most about the vegetable you tasted? 10. Please use the space below to draw the vegetable: Spring Lesson 8 - Grade 3 25
Rotten Food 1. Draw a picture of the fresh fruit: 2. Draw a picture of the rotten fruit: Spring Lesson 8 - Grade 3 26
3. What do you think the fruit will look like in two months? Spring Lesson 8 - Grade 3 27
Measuring Our Compost Pile Instructions: Answer the questions below. 1. What was the temperature of the compost? 2. Do you think the temperature will change over time? 3. Draw or write down what you saw in the compost pile: 4. Do you think the way the pile looks will change over time? Spring Lesson 8 - Grade 3 28
Taste Test Observations Instructions: Fill out the questions below after tasting your vegetable. 1. Date: 2. What vegetable are you tasting? 3. In a complete sentence, describe how the vegetable tastes: 4. Circle your response... I liked it I loved it I tried it 6. Would you try this veggie again? 5. Was your veggie crunchy? Yes or No 7. What color is your vegetable? Yes No Maybe 8. What part of the plant is your vegetable? Circle your answer. Root Stem Leaf Flower Seed Fruit 9. What do you like most about the vegetable you tasted? 10. Please use the space below to draw the vegetable: Spring Lesson 9 Grade 3 29
Flowers in Bloom Instructions: Draw a picture of your flower before dissection. 1. What observations did you make while exploring the flower? Spring Lesson 9 Grade 3 30
Flower Dissection: Identifying Parts of a Flower Instructions: As you dissect your flower, tape or draw these parts in the box below. Label them: petal, pollen, pistil, stamen 1. Observations and notes about flower parts: Spring Lesson 9 Grade 3 31
Spring Lesson 9 - Grade 3 32
Food Preference Study Instructions: Which plant snacks do you like to eat? Write down the name of each plant snack. Circle the one you think will be the class favorite. Use this chart to keep track of how many plant snacks you eat during this activity. Plant Snack How Many I Ate Observations: What does it look like? What does it feel like? How does it taste? Spring Lesson 10 - Grade 3 33
1. What was the favorite class snack at the beginning of the year? 2. What is the class favorite now? 3. What plant snacks do you like now better than you did at the beginning of the year? Spring Lesson 10 - Grade 3 34
My Daily Five Instructions: Outline your hand in the box below. In each finger, write down one favorite fruit or vegetable and draw a picture of it. Write down at least 2 fruits and 2 vegetables. The last finger can be either one. Spring Lesson 10 - Grade 3 35
Evaluation Questions: Review Lesson 1 - Eating a Rainbow 1. What are the 5 basic food groups? Grains, fruit, vegetables, protein, dairy 2. What does eating a balanced diet mean? Eat food from all 5 food groups every day 3. Why do we need to eat a variety of foods? To make sure we get all the nutrients, vitamins, minerals we need 4. What does eating a rainbow mean? Eat fruits and vegetables of all different colors 5. Why do we need to eat different color of fruits and vegetables? To make sure we get all the nutrients, vitamins and minerals that we need Lesson 2 Be Sugar Smart! 1. What types of drinks have a lot of sugar in them? Sodas, energy drinks, fruit punch, lemonade, sports drinks, etc. 2. Name a healthy drink with no sugar in it. Water 3. How much sugar is in a 20-ounce bottle of coke? 17 tsp. 4. How much of your body is made of water? About 60% or a little over ½ of your body Lesson 3 The Fantastic Food Chain 1. What is a food chain? The transfer of energy from one living thing to another living thing 2. What do all food chains start with? The sun 3. Do all food chains include plants? Yes 4. How do you trace cheese back to the sun? Cheese-milk-cow-grass-sun 5. How can a food chain be broken? If one type of living thing in the chain is wiped out; for example, if chickens were to go extinct Lesson 4 Water and Precipitation 1. What does the word precipitation mean? Any form of moisture, such as rain, snow, sleet or hail that falls to the earth s surface 2. Where does precipitation come from? The clouds 3. Do we need precipitation for our garden to grow? Yes 4. If it doesn t rain for a while, should we water our garden more or less? More Spring Evaluation Questions - Grade 3 36
Lesson 5 All About Soil 1. What are the three basic parts of soil? Sand, clay, and silt 2. What part of the soil is thick and sticky when wet? Clay 3. What part of the soil is rough and gritty? Sand 4. What part of the soil is silky and smooth? Silt Lesson 6 Discovering Seeds 1. What does a seed do for a plant? Becomes a new plant 2. What part of the seed is the baby plant? Embryo 3. What does the seed coat do? Protects the embryo 4. What does the cotyledon do for the seed? Provides food to the new plant to use until it reaches sunlight and can make its own food Lesson 7 Calcium Makes My Bones and Teeth Strong 1. Name 2 things your bones do for the body. Support and protect 2. What happens to your bones if you don t eat enough calcium? They become weak and fragile 3. How many servings of calcium rich foods do you need to eat every day? 3 4. What are some examples of calcium rich foods? Any dairy product such as milk, cheese, yogurt, leafy greens such as spinach, broccoli, almonds, fortified breakfast cereal, soymilk, cactus leaves, soups made with bones such as posole 5. Besides eating calcium rich foods, what else can we do to build strong bones and teeth? Exercise Lesson 8 The Rotten Pile 1. What does decompose mean? Break down or rot 2. What does rotting food do for our soil? It provides nutrients 3. What is compost? A mixture of decomposed items that is used to help our soil 4. What can you find that is decomposing in the soil? Leaves, sticks, bugs, etc. Spring Evaluation Questions - Grade 3 37
Lesson 9 Plant Parts: Identifying Parts of a Flower 1. How do flowers attract pollinators? With their petals: Bright colors, sweet smell, etc. 2. What do flowers do for the plant; what is their purpose? They make seeds 3. What is the stamen? The male part of the plant 4. What is the Pistil? The female part of the plant 5. What does Pollen do? Helps pollinate flowers by traveling from one flower to another on a pollinator and creating new seeds and fruits Lesson 10 Our Favorite Fruits and Vegetables 1. How have the food preferences of the class changed over the year? 2. What are some health benefits of eating fruits? Give us vitamins and minerals that fight off infections and help us heal when we get sick or hurt 3. What was the favorite plant food of the class? 4. What are some health benefits of eating vegetables? Vegetables have vitamins, minerals and fiber the help fill us up, keep us healthy and growing strong Spring Evaluation Questions - Grade 3 38
Notes 39
Notes 40
Notes 41