Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Magic Apple

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
A fun and delicious lesson plan can help your kids learn about plural nouns and story sequencing. After reading The Magic Apple by Rob Cleveland, kids match pictures to story segments and add s to nouns to make them...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Apples, Apples, Apples

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Learners complete activities using apples that help improve their science, math, and reading skills. In this apple lesson, students read the book Apples, Apples Apples and visit an orchard or farmer's market to buy a variety of apples....
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Apples

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete many cross categorical activities about apples. In this apples lesson plan, 2nd graders cook with apples, make a mobile, finger-paint, write a story about apples, and more. Students read poetry and complete math...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ample Apples

For Teachers 1st
First graders read stories and make observations about the life cycle of an apple tree. They write and illustrate expository text about apple trees and make applesauce.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Medieval Recipe Translations

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students analyze recipes from several medieval English manuscripts and collections. They view them in their original language accompanied with a literal translation and followed by a modern interpretation of the recipe and its cooking...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Apple Graphing

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students sample a variety of types of apples and then survey each other regarding their favorites. They chart how many students prefer each type of apple.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Apple Facts - Student Created Bulletin Board

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students research the health benefits of apples and create a bulletin board showing the scientific facts they find.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Giving Tree-Apple Activities

For Teachers All
Students complete a variety of activities about apples. They read The Giving Tree and discuss the moral of the story. They create paintings with apples and have apples as a snack. They make an apple cookbook and estimate the number of...
Lesson Plan
Food a Fact of Life

Creative Crumbles

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Class cooks practice the rubbing technique and the preparation of a range of bases to produce an apple and sultana or herby veggie crumble.
Lesson Plan
Nemours KidsHealth

Food and Cooking Safety: Grades 3-5

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In lesson one, scholars read articles, brainstorm a list of tips, then vote on the most important ones. Using those tips, the class creates a mural detailing them with magazine cutouts. Lesson two challenges pupils to cook a dish at home...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What to do with Malus-domestica, Cultivated Apples?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students take on the roles of apple farmers. In this Arizona agriculture lesson, students explore the concepts of supply and demand as they role play apple farmers who create marketing campaigns when supply outweighs demand.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Smoothie Recipes

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discover ways to use fresh fruits in a healthy snack. In this cooking lesson, students are given recipes to make smoothies using different types of fruits.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mmm Mmm Good

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders follow a recipe.  For this cooking lesson, 2nd graders are given a recipe and ingredients to prepare food. Students will reflect on their experience in their journals.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Johnny Appleseed Theme Unit: Day 3

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a variety of activities surrounding a thematic unit on apples and Johnny Appleseed.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Apples A"Peel" To Me

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study the characteristics and uses for apples through this series of ten lessons. They look at the importance of apples in the US. They read literature about apples, graph, sort, and measure apples, and make apple snacks....
Lesson Plan
Food a Fact of Life

Celebration

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Mastering the creaming method in cake making is featured in a foods activity that asks class members to prepare a Dutch apple cake or a marble pear tray bake. A delicious way to celebrate.
Lesson Plan
Food a Fact of Life

Batch Bake

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Sweet and savory muffins, yum. Young bakers bake batches of these tasty treats to demonstrate their competence in the kitchen. A real recipe for success.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Johnny Appleseed Theme Unit: Day 1

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars participate in a variety of activities surrounding a thematic unit on apples and Johnny Appleseed.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How To Make an Apple Pie and See the World

For Teachers 5th - 11th
Young scholars have a class discussion on how the variety of foods we use on a daily basis come from all over the world. They identify foods that they are familiar with that come from other places.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cooking: Apple Crescents

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Student apply their measurement skills and follow a recipe to make apple crescents.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Down at the Orchard

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine what an apple orchard looks like and work with cardinal directions. In this apple orchard and direction lesson plan, 1st graders listen to Anne Rockwell's, Apples and Pumpkins, and Amy and Richard Hutchings',...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Apples! Apples! Apples!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore the life of Johnny Appleseed as they create a MediaBlender project of Johnny's journey through the Midwest territory, and compare and contrast items he brought on his journey with items students would bring with them on...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Johnny Appleseed

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students engage in a study of apples using children's literature. They conduct research using a variety of resources. Student list facts about apples and compare them while answering some guided questions. They plant some apple seeds and...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Apples Are A...peeling

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders participate fully in cooperative learning groups, assuming all the different job roles.