Lettuce! Exploring Lettuce with Kids!

10 FREE Resources Exploring “Lettuce”

How do we get children to eat more lettuce? This is a good question to ponder. Educating children is an effective way to start and making it interesting can go a long way. To help in planning to teach the topic of lettuce in your food unit, I have compiled some resources to save you time and money. Lettuce is not only challenging to get children to eat, it is also short on resources. Hopefully the following will be of help for your lessons. Enjoy!

Online Books

I love technology and having books on YouTube Channel for teachers and parents to explore, before adding them to libraries or to share with children is time saving and efficient. Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. If you make a purchase there is zero cost to you, thank you!

Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!

“Tippy, tippy, tippy, Pat!
That’s the sound three hungry bunnies make when the sun goes down and the moon comes up and Mr. McGreely’s garden smells yum, yum, yummy. While he’s dreaming of his mouth-watering carrots, the bunnies are diving over fences and swimming trenches to get the veggies first!
Hammer, hammer, hammer, Saw!
That’s the sound Mr. McGreely makes when the sun comes up and the moon goes down and he sees what those twitch-whiskers have done….Nibbled leaves! Empty stalks! Mr. McGreely will build something bigger and better, sure to keep even pesky puff-tails away.” –Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! Excerpt from Amazon

Peppa Pig and the Vegetable Garden

“Peppa and her little brother, George, love to help Grandpa Pig in the garden. They discover that everything grows from seeds planted in the dirt, and that even the apple that falls on Grandpa Pig’s head has seeds inside! Join the amiable Peppa and her spirited family as they shoo away birds and “monsta” snails, imitate butterflies and worms, make a scarecrow, and gather ingredients for a fresh salad — and Granny Pig’s delicious blackberry pie.” – Excerpt Amazon

Up in the Garden Down in the Dirt

This is a “…sweet exploration of the hidden world and many lives of a garden through the course of a year “could not be more lovely,” according to the Washington Post. Up in the garden, the world is full of green—leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit. But down in the dirt there is a busy world of earthworms digging, snakes hunting, skunks burrowing, and all the other animals that make a garden their home. In this exuberant and lyrical book, discover the wonders that lie hidden between stalks, under the shade of leaves…and down in the dirt.” –Excerpt Amazon

A Green Green Garden

“Little Critter learns that planting his own garden is a lot of fun and a lot of work. But the result—a green, green garden—is something he can cherish and enjoy.” – Excerpt Amazon

Lettuce and the Butterfly

Videos

There is so much information on the Web, it can be overwhelming. Here are my top three picks to help you get started with exploring lettuce with your children. Simply click on the video image to view.

When you think of lettuce farming, the first thing you might picture is large leafy heads growing from the ground. This video show a more modern process for growing lettuce using aquaponics. Did you know living fish can play a vital role in growing vegetables? I found it fascinating how farmers were able to think outside the box to develop the techniques and the technology to sustainably grow veggies in water! Not to mention how fresh and how fast these farmers got lettuce to their community.

This video is more of a documentary/news style video about a lettuce farm in Yuma Arizona. According to the video, this area of the United States produces one quarter of the lettuce consumed by the world. It shows farmers at work in the field and the modern way lettuce is packed and ready for market. I actually learned a lot about lettuce from these two videos.

“Salad – Cooking with Kids” is a cute video to share with kids. Kids like to watch other kids and learn from them, too. Teaching kids how to make salad will inspire a desire to eat what they make.

I chose this video because it will give teachers and parents an idea on how to conduct a science experiment with lettuce. Learning that we can grow plants from plants is a good lesson to teach children. This can be done with a variety of different vegetables and herbs that we bring home from the store!

Additional FREE Resources

The last three resources are from some of my peers on Teacher Pay Teacher. Even if you are not a traditional classroom teacher any caregiver can get free and/or purchase these teacher created resources from the TpT website.

This freebie comes from the Primary Playground. It goes perfectly with the Muncha! Muncha!Muncha! book.

‘Garden Graphing” is perfect for a math center.

This is a cute game for group or partner activities. Print, laminate and play while practicing CVC words!

Thank you for taking the time to read the lettuce resources that can be used with the “Farmer’s Market Poetry Journal” packet. The packet contains 10 original couplet poems and clip art for young learners.

Thank you, see you soon!