Food Plants

Encyclopedia Britannica

Plants play an important role in our diet. Not only are they a healthy part of our meals, providing nutrients, vitamins, minerals, fibre and water, but they are also the base of the entire food web! That is, most of the meat and dairy products that people eat were produced by farm animals that were fed plants. That means that even when you are eating meat, you are indirectly eating vegetables.

These activities will get students looking more closely at plants by identifying plant parts, learning how plants grow and reproduce, designing their own seeds, and even growing their own plants.