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Apples a Peel to Me
Overview
| | Students will learn about the different varieties of apples.
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| | Standard 1: Science as Inquiry
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TimeFrame
| | This activity works well in the fall, especially September.
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| | This activity works well in a whole class situation with teacher supervision.
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| | The discussion and graphing activities will take approximately 30-45 minues.
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Materials
| | Each child needs to bring a favorite apple. Try to encourage a variety of colors on the graph later, if extension activities are used.
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| | Prepare a classroom graph.
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| | Duplicate and distribute a similar graph for students to use at their desks using crayons.
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| | This activity has been taken from the AIMS activity book Fall into Math and Science.
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Procedures
| | The teacher asks the key question, "What words can be used to describe an apple?" The teacher lists these describing words on chart paper or the chalkboard to be used in later language extension activities.
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| | The students count the apples as the teacher removes them from a bag.
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| | The teacher asks the students how the apples could be sorted into different groups based on the types of describing words they used in Step 1 (size, shape, color). The apples are then sorted by selected students into three color groups.
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| | Have the entire class count the number of apples in each color group. Color in one box in the corresponding colored column of the class graph. Have the children duplicate this procedure on their individual graphs until all the apples in the red color group have been graphed. Repeat this procedure for each remaining color group.It works really well to do this on the floor to make a "real graph".
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Assessment
| | Have the entire class count the number of apples in each color group. Color in one box in the corresponding colored column of the class graph. Have the children duplicate this procedure on their individual graphs at their desks until all the apples in the red color group have been graphed. Repeat this procedure for each remaining color group.It works really well to do this on the floor to make a "real graph".For a pictograph, children can color little apple shapes and glue them onto a graph to represent the results found on their bar graph. The results from the class graph, the bar graph, and the pictograph should be the same if the child fully understands the objective.You could go even further with your assessment by having the children make a graph on the computer from the results found on their paper graphs. I like to use "The Graph Club" program for graphing on the computer. The children can actually drag pictures of red, yellow, and green apples onto a graph.
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TrackStar-go to this address for an interactive, online presentation called a Track. You will find a collection of really neat web sites for apples.