{"content":[{"text":"What’s going to happen? \n Review the Steps with Students \n Go over each of the steps of making the recipe, from washing the vegetables to \n trying the lettuce wraps. Write the steps on the board. \n Step 1. Wash all vegetables. \n Step 2. Using a plastic knife, cut the broccoli, cucumbers, carrots, and celery into small \n pieces or slices. Put the vegetables into the small paper bowls. \n Step 3. Get one large piece of lettuce and place it on the paper plate. \n Step 4. Put the vegetable pieces, lettuce, and cheese pieces on top of the tortilla. \n Step 5. Roll the tortilla around the vegetables like a burrito. \n Step 6. Hold the lettuce wrap tight and try it! \n Step 7. Dip the lettuce wrap into different salad dressings and try it again. \n Step 8. Clean up. \n Get Them Cooking! \n Wash and Prepare the Ingredients \n Wash and prepare the vegies. Choose several children to wash the vegetables by \n running them under water (with a teacher’s assistant or volunteer’s help). Bring the \n veggies back to the teachers’ cooking station. Grate the carrot and cut the vegetables \n into large chunks in front of the class while talking a bit more about each ingredient. \n Cut the cheese into slices. Place the ingredients at each child’s place. \n Demonstrate \n Reserve some ingredients for a demonstration. Show students how to use their knives \n to cut the vegetables into small pieces or slices. Assemble a lettuce wrap in front of \n students, putting special emphasis on how to roll the tortilla around the vegetables.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.049105,"width":0.5810540000000001,"height":0.398316}},{"text":"Did you know. . . \n There are over 87 varieties of \n lettuce.","bbox":{"left":0.730392,"top":0.044726,"width":0.19475399999999998,"height":0.06003299999999999}},{"text":"Lettuce is a member of the \n sunflower family!","bbox":{"left":0.730392,"top":0.26534,"width":0.18106199999999995,"height":0.030327999999999966}},{"text":"Darker green lettuce leaves are \n more nutritious than lighter \n green leaves.","bbox":{"left":0.730392,"top":0.310794,"width":0.2095229999999999,"height":0.045479999999999965}},{"text":"Lettuce is one of the old- \n est known vegetables and is \n believed to be native to the \n Mediterranean area.","bbox":{"left":0.730392,"top":0.371401,"width":0.19163200000000002,"height":0.06063099999999999}},{"text":"Cut, Sprinkle, Roll! \n Ask students to take a seat at the tables/desks. Prompt students to start cutting the \n ingredients into small pieces using their plastic knives. Once the ingredients are \n all cut into small pieces or slices, students can put them into their individual paper \n bowls. Next, students should place the vegetables, apple, and cheese on top of their \n piece of tortilla. Guide students in rolling their tortilla around the vegetables like a \n burrito. Enjoy!","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.457085,"width":0.5689620000000001,"height":0.11154799999999992}},{"text":"Iceberg lettuce was called \n “Crisphead” until the 1920s. \n It was renamed when Califor- \n nia began transporting large \n quantities of lettuce under- \n neath mounds of ice to keep \n them cool. This is how Iceberg \n lettuce got its name.","bbox":{"left":0.730392,"top":0.447158,"width":0.2039359999999999,"height":0.12123800000000001}},{"text":"More Lettuce \n Activities \n Make a Garden Pattern \n Purchase green and red lettuce \n starts. In the garden, plant the \n lettuce in the garden using the \n different colors of lettuce to \n create a pattern (A, B, A, B or \n AA, BB, AA, BB, etc).","bbox":{"left":0.730392,"top":0.582626,"width":0.21078399999999986,"height":0.16003299999999998}},{"text":"Last Steps \n Taste it! Clean Up \n Prompt the children to try their Kids can help in the clean up process by \n lettuce wraps together all at once (Give them putting their plates in the trash and help- \n a count down by saying, “One, two, three, try ing to pick up debris on the floor. While \n it!). Give them small cups with different salad you finish clean up, ask a volunteer to read \n dressings. Give students the option of trying the suggested books. \n the lettuce wraps with the salad dressings.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.792649,"width":0.616025,"height":0.1400389999999999}},{"text":"Taste Test \n There are many different \n varieties of lettuce, from \n romaine to iceberg to oak leaf \n to mizuna. Purchase several \n different types of lettuce from \n your tailgate market and use \n them to organize a lettuce \n tasting party for your class. \n Ask students to vote on their \n favorite lettuce.","bbox":{"left":0.730392,"top":0.757851,"width":0.20293800000000006,"height":0.16965599999999992}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.730392,"top":0.120629,"width":0.212706,"height":0.130909},{"left":0.083333,"top":0.605632,"width":0.277562,"height":0.183941},{"left":0.395928,"top":0.6034,"width":0.203233,"height":0.186206}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.730392,"top":0.120629,"width":0.212706,"height":0.130909},{"left":0.083333,"top":0.605632,"width":0.277562,"height":0.183941},{"left":0.395928,"top":0.6034,"width":0.203233,"height":0.186206}]}