NAME OF LESSON: CHAPTER 1: FOOD: WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?

GRADE VI

MONTH : March 2023

PERIODS REQUIRED: 7- 9

OBJECTIVES
To sensitize students about the importance of food
To enable students understand the following concepts and help them learn using multiple
intelligence techniques.
1. Importance of food
2. Food variety
3. Plant and animal sources of food
4. Components and constituents of a dish
5. Food habits and classification of animals

TEACHING AIDS: Blackboard, chalk,duster, worksheets etc

Classroom interactive session on food consumed by students in school, at home, on roadside,
in restaurants, at railway stations etc. Children will be guided into the topic of food as an
essential part of our lives.
FOOD: AN ESSENTIAL PART OF LIFE
Anything that can be eaten is called food. It is a necessary element in our life as we need
nutrition for good health and growth and energy for doing work. Food as a substance that is
consumed by human beings and animals to grow and maintain their body. There are a variety
of foods that can be eaten at different times of the day according to one’s requirement. People
choose their food according to their taste, habitat, lifestyle, and availability. 

Activity1 : Brainstorming children about food and its aspects and roles in our lives.
 What do you think “which kind of food should be taken by us?”
 Whichfood in your opinion is is healthier : ice-cream, or fruits? Why?
 Do you justify the huge amount of wastage of food in marriage parties in the country
where 20% of the people sleep without food?

Integrate into discussion and explain to children the importance of food .

Food is needed by all living beings for four main purposes:

 for their growth.

 to provide energy for doing work.
 for the repair and replacement of the damaged tissues.
 to provide resistance and protection against diseases from infections.

Activity 2: Make a meal diary on an A4 size paper noting down whatever you eat during the
day. Record the details of things eaten during the day.

What are food items?

 We eat different food items every day. These items are taken during different mealtimes
like breakfast, lunch, snacks and dinner.
 Each of these food items requires ingredients to make them.

Activity 3: Home assignment for children to take a peek into the shelves of their kitchen/
fridge and pantry at home and make a big list of things they found. Class discussion to follow
the next day.

What are ingredients?

The components or materials required to prepare a food item are called as ingredients.
E.g. different types of vegetables, spices are ingredients for sambar.
 Food Ingredients are the materials required to prepare the dish we consume as food.
 Food Ingredients can be obtained from plant sources and animal sources or from nature
( salt and water)
 To prepare food we need different kinds of ingredients For example - To cook vegetable
curry we need different types of vegetables, salt, spices oil and so on.
 Food is prepared using various Ingredients of food.
What are the sources of food?

 Plants and animals are the two sources of our food materials.
 Milk, egg, meat, chicken, fish, prawn, beef, pork etc. are the food products that we get
from animals.
 Grain, cereals, vegetables and, fruits are the source of food that comes from plants and
plants products.

Plant Source: We can say that green plants are the primary
source of food.
 Several parts of the plant serve as sources of food. We
eat fruits, vegetables, cereals, and pulses etc, which are
types of food that come from various parts of a plant.

Parts of Plant Food

Roots Carrot, radish, sweet potato
Stem Banana, sugarcane, potato, ginger
Curry leaves, lettuce, fenugreek, spinach, green leaves of the
Leaves
mustard plant.
Cauliflower, broccoli, the flower of banana plant, flowers of a
Flowers
pumpkin plant,
Chickpea, maize, kidney beans, rice, wheat, millet, Bengal gram,
Seeds
groundnut
Fruits Apple, banana, guava, mango, pomegranate, watermelon, peach
Fruits termed as Vegetables Brinjal, tomatoes, lady’s finger, pumpkin & chilly

Animal Source

Animal Products used as a food

1. Meat – Goat, chicken, pork, fish, prawns etc.
are part of the non-vegetarian diet.
2. Egg – Eggs of hen, duck, goose like meat are
also part of the non-vegetarian diet.
3. Milk – Dairy products obtained from cow,
buffalo, camel, goat in a dairy farm
4. Honey – Bees collect nectar (sweet juices) from
flowers, convert it into honey and store it in
their hives.
 Activity 4  What is Sprouted Seeds and how to
prepare them ?
The germinating seeds at the initial stages when a white
structure has grown out of the seed are called Sprouted
seeds

What Do Animals Eat?

   Animals are unable to produce their own food by the process of photosynthesis, they
only consume food made by others, and hence called CONSUMERS.
 Animals are grouped into 3 categories based on their food habits.
1. Herbivores - Herbivores Animals are those animals that feed on plants i.e, these
are animals that eat only plants or plant products.
2. Carnivores - Carnivorous animals are those animals who eat other animals. So,
carnivores Animals that feed on other animals are called carnivores.
3. Omnivores - animals that eat both plants and animals.

Herbivores Carnivores Omnivores

Cow Lion Peacock
Deer Tiger Dog
Giraffe Wolf Human

Special characteristics of Herbivores

 Herbivores like a cow, horse, and goat have wide, blunt teeth which are suitable for
pulling plants off the ground and grinding them.
 Squirrels have a pair of broad, sharp-edged front teeth (incisors) in each jaw They use
these teeth to gnaw food items like nuts.
 Butterfly and hummingbird do not need to worry about chewing their food. They have
mouth parts shaped like a straw to suck nectar from flowers.

Special Characteristics of Carnivores

 Carnivores animals like lion and tiger have sharp and pointed front teeth (canines). They
also have sharp claws and powerful jaws which help them to tear flesh.
 Carnivorous birds like eagle have curved, pointed beaks that allow them to tear flesh.
 Carnivores like chameleon and frog have a long, sticky tongue that they use to catch
insects.
Special Characteristics of Omnivores
  Omnivores like a bear and human beings have different types of teeth that help them to
eat both plants and the flesh of other animals.
 Omnivorous birds like crow have a sharp and pointed beak to help them eat a
variety of food.

Scavengers and Decomposers:

 Scavengers are birds and animals which eat the flesh of other dead animals. Eg: Vulture.
 Decomposers are organisms that feed on and destroy (or decompose) dead plants and
animals. E.g.: Fungi and bacteria
 Both scavengers and decomposers play a very important role in cleaning the
environment. Without them, our planet would be covered with dead plants and
animals.

NOTEBOOK/ WRITTEN WORK:

Question and answers from textbook content.
Diagrams/tables and web charts
Selected questions from textbook, Resource book and worksheet.

EVALUATION
Worksheet
Class test
Quiz

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CLASSWORK /HOMEWORK SCHEDULE : CHAP 1: FOOD: WHERE IT COMES FROM?

DATE/DAY CLASSWORK HOMEWORK
DAY1 Introduction to chapter and discussion Make a meal diary on an A4
about importance of food size paper noting down
whatever you eat during the
day. Record the details of
things eaten during the day
DAY 2 Reading of chapter and review of food Take a peek into the shelves
record of their kitchen/ fridge and
pantry at home and make a
Food variety and ingredients introduced
big list of things you find.
DAY 3 Class discussion about the ingredient lists Read the lesson
made.
Instructions for sprouting
Concepts about Food ingredients and seeds at home
plant and animal sources of food

DAY 4 Classification of animals on the basis of Observe the sprouts

food habits growing at home and bring
to class the next day as a
snack.
Read the lesson
DAY 5 Display of sprouts grown and discussion Notebook work as per
instruction
Questions answers discussed
DAY 6 Question answers Complete notebook work
DAY 7 Objective questions from Resource book Complete notebook work