A is for Apples

Students use their five senses to investigate apples, identify and model the parts of an apple, make applesauce, and discover how apples are grown.

Grades
K – 2
TX: Grades K – 2
Estimated Time
1.5 hours
Updated
December 9, 2024
various apples
Image: usdagov/Flickr

Background

Lesson Activities

Credits

Author

Lynn Wallin | Utah Agriculture in the Classroom

Sources

  1. http://www.usapple.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=179&Itemid=285 
  2. http://www.nyapplecountry.com/about/fun-facts

Standards

Texas Content Area Standards

  • ELA: K.110.2.b.1

    Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking - - oral language. The student develops oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.

    • ELA: K.1.C: The student is expected to share information and ideas by speaking audibly and clearly using the conventions of language.
  • ELA: K.110.2.b.3

    Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking -- vocabulary. The student uses newly acquired vocabulary expressively.

    • ELA: K.3.C: The student is expected to identify and use words that name actions; directions; positions; sequences; categories such as colors, shapes, and textures; and locations.
  • ELA: K.110.2.b.5

    Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts.

    • ELA: K.5.H: The student is expected to synthesize information to create new understanding with adult assistance.
  • ELA: K.110.2.b.11

    Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts -- genres. The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful.

    • ELA: K.11.B: The student is expected to dictate or compose informational texts.
  • ELA: 1.110.3.b.1

    Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking - - oral language. The student develops oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.

    • ELA: 1.1.C: The student is expected to share information and ideas about the topic under discussion, speaking clearly at an appropriate pace and using the conventions of language.
  • ELA: 1.110.3.b.2

    Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking - - beginning reading and writing. The student develops word structure knowledge through phonological awareness, print concepts, phonics, and morphology to communicate, decode, and spell.

    • ELA: 1.2.F: The student is expected to develop handwriting by printing words, sentences, and answers legibly leaving appropriate spaces between words.
  • ELA: 1.110.3.b.6

    Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts.

    • ELA: 1.6.H: The student is expected to synthesize information to create new understanding with adult assistance.
  • ELA: 1.110.3.b.12

    Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts -- genres. The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful.

    • ELA: 1.12.A: The student is expected to dictate or compose literary texts, including personal narratives and poetry.
  • ELA: 2.110.4.b.1

    Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking -- oral language. The student develops oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.

    • ELA: 2.1.C: The student is expected to share information and ideas that focus on the topic under discussion, speaking clearly at an appropriate pace and using the conventions of language.
  • ELA: 2.110.4.b.6

    Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts.

    • ELA: 2.6.H: The student is expected to synthesize information to create new understanding.
  • ELA: 2.110.4.b.12

    Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts -- genres. The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful.

    • ELA: 2.12.A: The student is expected to compose literary texts, including personal narratives and poetry.
  • Math: K.111.2.b.8

    Data analysis. The student applies mathematical process standards to collect and organize data to make it useful for interpreting information.

    • Math: K.8.A: The student is expected to collect, sort, and organize data into two or three categories.
    • Math: K.8.B: The student is expected to use data to create real-object and picture graphs
    • Math: K.8.C: The student is expected to draw conclusions from real-object and picture graphs
  • Math: 1.111.3.b.8

    Data analysis. The student applies mathematical process standards to organize data to make it useful for interpreting information and solving problems.

    • Math: 1.8.B: The student is expected to use data to create picture and bar-type graphs.
    • Math: 1.8.C: The student is expected to draw conclusions and generate and answer questions using information from picture and bar-type graphs.
  • Math: 2.111.4.b.10

    Data analysis. The student applies mathematical process standards to organize data to make it useful for interpreting information and solving problems.

    • Math: 2.10.B: The student is expected to organize a collection of data with up to four categories using pictographs and bar graphs with intervals of one or more.