Garden Lessons: Making Salad (Kindergarten)
Grade(s): Kindergarten
Lesson Objective(s): Students try a healthy snack and can CATEGORIZE living and non-living things
Supplies Needed
Lettuce, cabbage, kale or whatever other leafy greens are in the garden
olive oil
salt & pepper
hand sanitizer
bowls (small, 1 per student)
forks (1 per student)
“Living Things Vs Non-Living things” poster chart & cut-out items (fork, lettuce, bowl, cabbage, salt & pepper, harmonica, people)
Harmonica
Introduction (5 mins)
Everyone washes hands, welcome students
If in garden: Everyone harvests 1 cabbage leaf, 1 lettuce leaf, 1 kale leaf
If inside: bring them to class. Show leaves to class, ask who’s seen them before
Activity (20 mins)
Explain that today we’re going to make a salad. Ask: Have you ever tried a salad before?
Go to seats, have helper pass out bowls, another pass out forks, 1 per person
Everyone gets hand sanitizer
First show students the 3 different greens: Cabbage, lettuce, and kale
Show first how to tear up leaves: tear into small pieces, and put into bowl
Each student gets: 1 cabbage leaf, 1 kale leaf & 1 lettuce leaf
Students work on tearing up leafs in bowl. Teacher goes around to each table and pours a drizzle of olive oil in bowl, student adds salt & pepper.
Have students mix the olive oil in very well with the greens with their fork
Explain that once they are done, they can try their snack. If they don’t like it, they can either throw it in compost or give it to a friend.
Wrap up (5 Mins):
Students throw away all trash, wipe tables & clean up
Gather on carpet with class- by show of hands, who liked it, who didn’t?
Do "Living or Non-living” Chart together. What did we see use, or taste today that was living? What did we use that was non-living?
Classroom Extensions:
Before: Read “Lettuce” by Diana Kizlauskaz
After: Add to the chart. What other things do we see in the classroom, garden, or at home that is living or non-living?