The
Four Seasons of Growing Apples
This site is all about growing apples: pruning, planting, pollination, and picking. Links to orchard photos, the cider mill, a virtual tour, a season calendar and the origin of apples. Includes some advertising. Good teacher resource.
Learn about history and legends, facts, varieties, nutrition, recipes, orchards, festivals, selection, growing, and preserving apples. Includes an Apple Education Page with teacher resources such as activities and links. Also includes an "Apple Fun" page with crafts and online activities for kids. Great for classroom use.
From the Yakima Valley Museum, follow the journey of an apple from a seed to the table. Lots of text and photographs. Information about all aspects of the apple, including good and bad bugs, how much a bushel is, diagrams and more. Use in the classroom or with older children as an online resource.
This coloring book includes a short, kid friendly, history of the apple and 17 pages of fun apple characters to print and color. Kids of all ages will enjoy coloring these silly characters!
This site outlines the history of apples from Rome to the United States. Includes links about growing apples, varieties, diseases and pests, uses and food value, and classification. Good teacher resource.
Nutrition Education for Kids, Teachers and Parents
Dole's five a day site features a coloring book, recipes, online puzzles, stories, songs, nutrition facts, lesson plans for language arts, math, social studies, and science. Suitable for students of all ages, as well as their teachers.
Mrs. B's Busy Classroom Apple Theme
This site has ideas geared toward preschool teachers. You'll find ideas for everything in your classroom: the bulletin board, lesson plans (math, science, and art), games, snacks, poems, stories, printable activity sheets, and apple links.
Here is an essay for teachers about Johnny Appleseed. The site includes links to the Johnny Appleseed story in two versions (long and short) as well as an essay entitled "How Johnny Appleseed is remembered" and newspaper articles.
Johnny Appleseed Hidden Picture
Here's a fun, printable, classic "Highlights for Children" hidden picture of Johnny Appleseed. Kids Kindergarten and up will have fun finding 15 hidden pictures, all having to do with the story of Johnny Appleseed.
This page features lots of ideas for young children in
art, math, science, games, group time, snacks, and field trips. Also includes
Fall links.