Lesson Plan #4
Duration:
One-hour session
Objectives:
Students will identify five varieties of apples.
Materials:
Children's Book:
Moore, Eva. Johnny Appleseed. New York: Scholastic Inc, 1970 (a similar children's book about Johnny Appleseed may be substituted)
Apple
Variety Worksheet
Computer with
Internet
Vocabulary:
Granny Smith, Cortland, Delicious, Golden Delicious, Empire, Rome Beauty
Procedures:
1. Read Johnny
Appleseed by Eva Moore to introduce the unit.
2. Research on the
Internet to find out what the varieties of apples are. Visit Le
Crunch.
3. Complete Apple Variety Worksheet.
Students will visit Foodland
to
learn the top varieties of apple. Students will use a
writing program to create an Apple Table of
the top apple varieties, nutritional value, preparation,
storage and picture.
4. An extension
activity would be to have students fold the paper into four equal parts and draw
pictures to illustrate and label an apple tree in spring, summer, fall, and
winter. Then students
would write a paragraph telling about their
pictures.
5. Drawings should show flowers and green leaves in the
spring, fruit in the summer, and yellow and
brown leaves in the
fall, and bare branches in the winter.
6. Students will take an online quiz about apples at Quia.
Assessment:
Teachers will evaluate students' answers to questions on the Apple Table; the table must contain: type of apple, how to store, how to prepare, nutritional value and picture.
Home Learning:
Students will take their parents to the grocery store and research the types of apples sold. Then they will bring to class the names of the apples that they have found in their stores and make a class graph.
Extension Activity:
Johnny
Appleseed planted apple trees all across the frontier. Students can participate
in Arbor Day activities and plant trees on the school grounds or at local parks.
Nurseries will usually donate trees to students. Students can visit the Arbor
Day website:
Click on How to Celebrate Arbor Day and tell the best ways to celebrate Arbor
Day
(plant a tree, donate to a park, make a tree poster, write a tree song, have a
picnic in a park...)
Click on Arbor Day History and answer:
Where did Arbor Day originate? (Nebraska)
Who started the idea of Arbor Day? (J. Sterling Morton)
What year was the Arbor Day Proclamation made to the children of America (1907)
By which president? (President Theodore Roosevelt)
What does Arbor Day mean? (tree day)
