1.12 Potatoes

Natural sciences

Grade 4

Life and way of living

Module 13

Potatoes

Potatoes

The potato must be the most popular vegetable in every home. Potatoes are swollen roots (tubers) that grow underground and they are used for many dishes.

• Plant a seed potato in your garden and see whose potato plant has grown the most in three weeks!
• Have group discussions to find out about the different ways in which potatoes can be used.
• Bring a recipe for a potato dish to school and paste it to the back of this page.

Write a brief sentence about potatoes in each square of the illustration. Use these words:

eye

stem

soil

nutrients

.

Memorandum

POTATOES

• Different ways in which we can use potatoes: cook, make potato salad, fry, bake, boil and mash, use in soup, in cakes, in puddings, in baking bread, etc.

• Captions for illustrations
• The eye grows to form a new plant.
• This is where the stem grew.
• Potatoes prefer sandy soil

Potatoes contain nutrients like starch, vitamins and proteins.