This resource features beautifully intricate fruit and vegetable coloring pages with fun facts and nutritional information included on each page.
Teaching Tips
Positives
This collection of printable coloring pages is beautiful and engaging to work with.
Students at any level will find coloring these pages to be relaxing.
Additional Prerequisites
Students should be comfortable with coloring and identifying fruits and vegetables.
Differentiation
These pages could be used in science classes learning about sustainable farming practices, art classes connecting real-world images with art, social studies classes focusing on the types of produce grown in different parts of the world, or health classes learning about nutrition.
This resource would make a great addition to a station or center in a classroom where students have the opportunity to choose where they work.
Consider using these sheets as a regulation task for students who are overwhelmed, as this type of work can be very relaxing.
Scientist Notes
This resource is a website of coloring pages associated with the documentary film Gather. While there is no science to verify on this particular resource, its association with Gather and Ecoliteracy makes it acceptable and recommended for teaching.
Standards
Common Core English Language Arts Standards (CCSS.ELA)
Reading: Informational Text (K-12)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 2-3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
National Core Arts Standards
Visual Arts: Standard 1 - Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
