Abstract

Do you know the flowers of common vegetables and fruits?
This is a learnable food literacy quiz book about common vegetables and fruits served in menu of school lunch dishes.
Each quiz showing a picture of flower to question and the following page shown the answer with the crop image in the growing field.
The anthropomorphized characters of Vegetables and fruits explain their features which making children evoke more interest in food.
4 worksheets available at the end of the book, which are good for student's learning.
Accompanying DVD-ROM includes full of the colour data for this book.

Including 32 vegetables and fruits which often found in Japanese school lunch menu: Asparagus, Strawberries, Green soybeans, Okra, Pumpkin, Cabbage, Cucumber, Green peas, Bitter melon, Komatsuna-leaves, Rice, Sweet potato, Taro, Kidney bean, Potato, Garland chrysanthemum, Broad beans, Japanese radish, Onion, Sweet corn, Tomato, Eggplant, Carrot, Welsh onion, Banana, Green pepper, Broccoli, Spinach, Satsuma mandarin, Mung bean sprouts, Apple, Lettuce.

Author’s Information

Shonen Shashin Shimbunsha's 'Kyushoku News' was started issuing as an educational poster on a wall in schools in Japan in 1964.
"Kyushoku News" fosters children's interest in "food literacy" their ability to think independently, and their ability to solve problems in the face of social change. It covers a wide range of topics, including dining etiquette, breakfast, nutritional balance, sports and food, and food culture, and captures children's interest with large, beautiful photographs, easy-to-understand illustrations, and comics.