Where Does Food Come From?
Posted by Ann PalmWhere does food come from? Sure, the supermarket is the place where we buy food but PreK-4 students wondered where does food really come from?
During our farm unit the children visited a working farm where they learned that milk comes from a female cow. They experienced milking a pretend cow and now understand why farmers use machines to milk cows – it’s hard work! After visiting the cows, the children met sheep and lambs and felt their insulating fleece. They washed the fleece, hand-carded (combed) it, and hand-spun it into yarn with a partner to make a braclet. Visiting the chicken yard and coop were next. Did you know the color of a chicken’s ear determines the color of egg she lays? The children were also amazed to learn that chickens have 5,000 feathers!
Back at school the children learned that when you eat a salad you could be eating not just leaves, like lettuce, but also flowers, stems, roots and seeds! Fresh from the farmers market they examined cauliflower and broccoli up close, and guess what – they are huge flowers! After thinking about how carrots grow underground, they realized it was a root. Husking corn was an especially fun part of this investigation. The hard work paid off when we ate the seeds!
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