Hi everyone!
I am currently a pre-service teacher and I am working on a 7E lesson plan for Kindergarten Science students. To start my lesson, I will first introduce my book, The Bad Apple: A Tale of Friendship by Edward Hemingway. I will then discuss that there are many things that apples can be used for. For example, to make apple sauce. The activity I am planning to do is to make apple sauce in a crockpot and use step by step instructions to share with the students. I would like to also try an activity that is not so common and could delve deeper into a science lesson. I would appreciate any suggestions and/or advice. Also, if there is anyone that is familiar with an article that could enhance my lesson, I would greatly appreciate the reccomendation.
Thank you so much in advance!
Hi Ashley!
Making applsauce with your students sounds so fun! Maybe you could bring in different types of apples and set up a rotation where students get to go around to each apple and talk in small groups about what they observe about that apple type. What color is it? What shape is it? Is it big or small? Maybe you could even have them taste different colored apples. Like a granny smith vs a honeycrisp. They would notice that the granny smith apple is very tart while a honeycrisp tastes sweeter. This is definitely a unit where you can use their senses to collect data! Also, what is your objective for the unit? What do you want your students to know by the end of the unit?
I currently work in a preschool and every fall we do an apple unit with the students. This year, we made apple sauce for the first time via crockpot and it was very successful. The students took turns counting out ingredients to add to the applesauce and then we ate it for snack that afternoon. This was the final activity of the apple unit. Throughout the unit, like Alex mentioned, we also did taste testing of different types of apples and made observations using their senses. We also incorporated counting and tables by making a chart of students favorite apples. Lastly, we also discussed the life cycle of an apple seed during the unit. We also incorporated lots of literature connections through books and practicing the letter A for apple, S for seed, etc (appropriate in preschool, maybe not as much in kindergarten depending on the class). Your students will love it!
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