Teaching Themes
Apples: Everything You Need
Apples have inspired many great thinkers to come up with new ideas. These apple-themed lessons and activities will now give your students the chance to make their own discoveries.
Lesson Plans, Extension Activities
Seasonal Apple Trees
Grades: PreK–K
Students explore how an apple tree changes with the seasons through reading, crafts, role play, and the use of a graphic organizer.
Lesson Plans
A Look at Life Cycles Lesson Plan
Grades: PreK–K, 1–2
Illustrate the life cycle of an apple tree by having students work as a team to create a display about the four seasons.
Apples Books
Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12
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 Planting Seeds, Spreading Sunshine: Fluency-Building PlayGrades: 1–2, 3–5 This autumn, teach about apples and tall tales with this fluency-building play on Johnny Appleseed. |
 All About ApplesGrades: PreK–K Good for cooking, craft projects, and more, apples offer the possibility for fun and delicious learning. |
 Book Lists Teachers' Picks: Books for FallGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 From apples to pumpkins, Ramadan to Halloween, autumn has plenty of things to celebrate. Get started with some of these books. |
 Apple ColorsGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Activity sheets and other resources to help you teach about apples. |
All About Apples ActivitiesGrades: PreK–K Cook with apples, "hot-potato-style" activities, and other ideas for fun (and delicious!) apple-oriented learnings. |
Activities and Games Quick Ideas: Blindfold Bobbing (Prek-K)Grades: PreK–K Teach counting and object recognition with this twist on the traditional bobbing for apples game. |
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Book Resources, Lesson Plans The Apple Pie Tree Lesson PlanGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Celebrate apple season with this lesson plan on teaching Zoe Hall's The Apple Pie Tree in your classroom. |
Travel Activities, Book Resources, Lesson Plans Apples, Apples, Apples Lesson PlanGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Use the book Apples, Apples, Apples to teach about the characteristics of different types of apples through cooking and other activities.... |
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Articles Johnny Appleseed Discussion GuideGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 A discussion guide for the book Johnny Appleseed... |
Extension Activities The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree Extension ActivitiesGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 After reading The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree by Gail Gibbons, sprout an apple seed or visit an apple tree in blossom to teach about... |
