Food: Where Does It Come From?

Concepts: Food, Ingredients, Sources of ingredients, Edible, Plant, Herbivores,

Carnivores, Omnivores.

Vocabulary: Spices, pulses, cereals, butter, cheese, curd, root, stem, edible, seed,
sprout, nectar, hive, cattle, and products.

1) What do you eat/drink at home?

A: tea, milk, chapatti, bread, rice, curry, noodles, fish, chicken, tomato, apple,
ganana, dal, kheer etc.
2) These are the food item which we eat /drink daily.
3) Take any one food item and find out the different things needed to make the same.
E.g.: Tea: Water, Sugar, Tea powder.
So here (water, sugar, tea powder) are the ingredients of tea.

Food Item Ingredients

Chapatti atta, water
Dal pulses, spices, water, salt, oil
Fish curry fish, spices, salt, oil, water
m milk, sugar, rice, salt, cashew nut, water
Chicken curry chicken, water, spices, salt, oil

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 1) How do we get all those above ingredients? (Who gives us?)
A: Atta (Wheat or jowar) – plant
Pulses – plant
dals, peas, moong, urad, grams – all are pulses)
cereals – plant
(Rice, Wheat, barley, bajra, Jowar – all arec)
Spices – plant
Fish – animal
Chicken – animal
Milk – animal
Oil – plant or animal
So plants and animals are the main sources of ingredients of our food.

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 Q: What are the different parts of a plant?
A: Flower, Leaf, Stem, Roots

Mango tree:
Q: Which part of mango tree do we eat?
A: We eat the fruits.
Radish Plant:
Q: Which of radish plant do we eat?
A: We eat the leaves and the roots.
Sugarcane:
Q: Which part of sugarcane plant do we eat ?
A: We eat the stem.
The part of the plant that we eat is edible (eatable)
What about honey?
Is it a plant product or animal product?
Q: How do we get Honey? Who gives us honey?
A: Bees collect nectar (sweet juice) from flowers and convert it into honey
and store it in their hive.
{Convert: like milk convert into curd; lime convert into lemon juice etc}
{Hive: A place where bees make honey}

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 Activity: Ask some of the students
Q: Which is your favourite animal? And what food does it eat?
And simultaneously write down the names in 3 columns like
1 2 3
Cow Lion Dog
Elephant Tiger Cat
Rabbit House lizard Crow
Butterfly Eagle Man
buffalo ----- -----

Animals which are in 1st column eat only plants. They are called as Herbivores.
Animals which are in 2nd column eat only animals. They are called as Carnivores.
Animals which are in 3rd column eat plants and animals. They are called as
Omnivores.

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 Questions:

A) Multiple choice
1) __________ is a product of plant.
(egg, potato, ghee)

2) ___________ is a product of animal.

(salt, rice, milk)

3) We eat ________ of the carrot plant.

(flower, leaves, root)

4) Tiger is a __________, because it eats only meat.

(herbivore, carnivore, omnivore)

5) _________ is a herbivore.
(lion, dog, rabbit)

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 A) Match the pairs
A B
1) Elephant a) omnivore
2) Hen b) carnivore
3) Snake c) herbivore

B) Draw a neat labeled diagram of a plant.

D) Choose the ingredients (milk, water, onion, tur dal, fish, salt, spices, rice, and
coconut) for the following food items.
a) dal
b) fish curry
c) kheer

E) Pick out the odd item.

1) milk, rice, coconut, potato
2) giraffe, goat, cow, cat

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