Global Johnny Appleseed Project

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Global Johnny Appleseed Project
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What if every school in the world planted at
least two trees?
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Johnny Appleseed, 1774-1845
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So many apples no one would ever go hungry.
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John "Appleseed" Chapman brought faith, hope and
courage to the pioneers living on the Ohio
frontier. Philanthropist, conservationist,
environmentalist, horticulturist, visionary,
missionary, humanitarian and border scout,
Appleseed is a true inspirational hero for all
generations.                                     
                           From the Johnny
Appleseed Heritage Center
Pictured William Gropper, 18971977, Johnny
Appleseed, from the series American Folk Heroes,
undated, lithograph, 17 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.,
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of David
Schiffer.
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• The apple was early so important, and so
• generally distributed, that its name traced to
  its
• root in many languages signifies fruit in
  general.
• Maelon (Melon), in Greek, means an apple, also
• the fruit of other trees, also a sheep and any
  cattle,
• and finally riches in general.
• from The History of the Apple Tree, by Henry
  David Thoreau

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Other apples
Orange - In many languages oranges are known as
golden apples. This is another option for a
tree to plant if apple trees do not grow well in
your climate.
Avocado - Another good option for a type of tree
to plant if apple trees do not grow well in your
climate.
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More about the project . . .

• Goal 1 -
• Every school in the
• United States, or the
• world, will plant at least
• two trees.

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Why plant these trees?
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Global ReLeaf

• Forests filter water, remove air pollution,
• sequester carbon, improve community
• aesthetics and provide homes for wildlife.
• See this film at the Global ReLeaf Project
• www.americanforests.org/campaigns/gr2/AF_GR2_movie
  /index.php

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The Right Tree

• The right tree for the right
• place . . see this web site
• for a great guide

www.ecomagic.org/fruition/right.html
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Curriculum

• When we think of Fall,
• we often think of apples. 

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Investigating the connections in curriculum, you
will find that you can take your students into a
meaningful, real-life, interdisciplinary,
project-based unit that meets many of the
national standards.  This unit may be adapted
for any grade level, and crosses multiple
disciplines.
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Johnny Appleseedand the Curriculum

• Johhny Appleseed is not just a cute story for
• little children.

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Johnny Appleseed Connections
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National Apple Month

• The United States Apple
• Association states that National
• Apple Month was originally
• National Apple Week, established
• in 1904.  Today it has expanded to
• Include three months, September
• through November. 

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Starting the school year with such a project
would be very appropriate. You can connect to

• Apple harvest
• Halloween
• Christmas
• and much more, as you will see

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Service Learning Projects

• The ultimate 21st century curriculum, Service
• Learning takes place in four major forms
• Direct Service
• Indirect Service
• Advocacy
• Research

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Plant Trees
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Environmental Survey

• Conduct an environmental survey or study in your
  community.

• Analyze the results
• Take action

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Historic Trees

• Save a tree, a park or an
• important historical
• building/site in your
• community.  This would
• involve the students in
• real-life civic action. 
• See HistoricTrees.org

Fourth generation scion of the tree from
Woolsthorpe Manor, Newton's childhood home.
Planted at Babson College.
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Johnny Appleseed Festival

• Invite local musicians,
• artists,craftsmen, cooks
• and chefs, farmers,
• gardeners, orchardists,
• and the local media to a
• fundraising festival. 

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Festival continued

• Use the monies for
• anything from planting
• apple trees in the
• community (at the
• school, a local park or on
• Main Street) to donations to
• a local food bank, or any
• number of worthy projects.

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Public Service Announcements

• Help raise awareness in
• your community by
• having students conduct
• an environmental survey
• of the community,
• analyze the results, and
• offer solutions.  Use this
• information to design and
• produce PSAs for radio
• and television. 

Working on the storyboard.
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Remember these PSAs?

• Smokey Bear -
• preventing forest
• fires
• www.smokeybear.com

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Smokey Bears PSA

• Once Upon A Time
• Twice Upon A Time
• Fuse
• Match Sticks - Spanish
• Smokey N' Da Boyz
• View online at www.adcouncil.org/default.aspx?id6
  0
• For more PSAs with Smokey just Google!

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Keep America Beautiful

• Iron Eyes Cody
• the crying Indian
• Keep America Beautiful
• Campaign 1971

Watch the PSA at www.youtube.com/watch?vk197LOJof
9Q
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Woodsy Owl

• Give a Hoot,
• Dont Pollute!

See his PSAs at http//www.symbols.gov/media/woods
y/video/psa.shtml
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Green Celebrities

• Let the students
• find out what
• celebrities are
• doing for the planet
• many exciting
• projects!

Robert Redford
Top Green celebrities are at www.grist.org/news/ma
indish/2007/06/01/celebs/ Also see one of
Redfords projects, a new series on Sundance
calledThe Green www.sundancechannel.com/thegreen/
homePage
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Live Earth

• Use these videos from
• the Live Earth Concert
• which took place on all
• 7 continents for 24
• hours on 7-7-07 to raise
• awareness for care of
• the environment.

Jon Bon Jovi
http//liveearth.msn.com/green/liveearthfilmprojec
t
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Green Films

• King Kong
• Soylent Green
• A Civil Action
• The Day After Tomorrow
• An Inconvenient Truth

King Kong 1933
For many years films have dealt with conditions
on planet Earth, from war to animal welfare. For
more films see http//liveearth.msn.com/green/gree
nfilms
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Environmental News

• Grist Environmental News and
• Commentary
• http//www.grist.org/

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Social Studies Connections
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American Revolution

• Minutemen - ready to
• go into battle with a
• minutes notice.
• Later replaced with
• Continental Army
• created by George
• Washington

Johnny Appleseeds father was a Minuteman.
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Environmental Law

• A body of law, which is a system of complex
• and interlocking statutes, common law,
• treaties, conventions, regulations and
• policies which seek to protect the natural
• environment which may be affected,
• impacted or endangered by human
• activities.

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Some environmental laws regulate the quantity and
nature of impacts of human activities for
example, setting allowable levels of pollution.
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Other environmental laws are preventive in nature
and seek to assess the possible impacts before
the human activities can occur.
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Also see . . .
Kyoto Treaty Sustainable development Polluter
pays principle Eco-taxes Tradeable emission
allowances Environmental Protection Agency
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Literature Connections
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Henry David Thoreau1817-1862

• "It is remarkable how
• closely the history of
• the apple tree is
• connected with that of
• man." 

From Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreau,
published 1862.  Download the ebook free at
Project Guttenberg.  www.gutenberg.org/etext/4066
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Traditions and Tree Lore

• Symbolism of the Apple
• Apples as the food of the gods
• Hercules and the Apples of Immortality
• Tree of paradise and the serpent

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Mythology

• Golden apple and
• the Trojan War
• The Choice of Paris

The Apples of the Hesperides
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Fairy Tales

• Mrs. Wholesome and the Apple Orchard
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• The Golden Bird

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Wassailing

• An old English tradition of blessing the apple
• orchards and fruit trees. In literature from
  Beowolf to
• Shakespeare to Thoreau.

www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5567/waswrite.html
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Was Hail

• The tradition has endured in Britain that the
• one who drinks first at a banquet says "was
• hail" to his partner, and he who drinks next
• says   "drinc hail."
•      --- Geoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the
  Kings of Britain (1135), vi.12 
• http//www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5567/washist.
  html

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Science Connections
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Carbon Footprints

• Carbon footprint is a measure of the amount of
• Carbon dioxide or CO2 emitted through the
• combustion of fossil fuels in the case of an
• organization, business or enterprise, as part of
• their everyday operations in the case of an
• individual or household, as part of their daily
  lives
• or a product or commodity in reaching market.

www.globaljohnnyappleseedproject.org/Carbon_Footpr
int.htm
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Carbon Offsetting

• When one is unable or unwilling to reduce
• one's own emissions, Carbon offset is the
• act of reducing ("offsetting") greenhouse gas
• emissions elsewhere. A well-known example
• is the planting of trees to compensate for the
• greenhouse gas emissions from personal air
• travel.

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Areas of Research

• Alternative fuel research 
• Algae-based fuels
• Salt water burns as fuel? - see the video on this
  very new, accidental discovery from cancer
  research . . . www.youtube.com/watch?vaGg0ATfoBgo
  
• A Better Biofuel engineering bacteria
  www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/18476/

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Conservation of resources  Weather and crop
production  World hunger Modern Marvels the
supermarket Integrated pest management Forestry Cl
imatology Hazardous Waste Recycling Clean Air
Act Clean Water Act Cleanup Climate
Change Careers Beaches Agriculture
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Medical Research

• Cancer research
• Lung cancer research
• Heart studies
• Weight loss research
• Memory research
• Breast cancer research
• Antioxidants
• See www.GlobalJohnnyAppleseedProject.org for more.

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ActionBioscience.org

• Biodiversity Why preserve lifes variety?
• Environment How fragile is our planet?
• Genomics What does the genome reveal?
• Biotechnology How is biotech changing the
  world?
• Evolution What is lifes history on earth?
• New frontiers Why is it the age of biology?
• Education Why improve bioscience literacy?

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Nutrition

• An apple a day will keep the doctor away . . .

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Growing Apples

• Life cycle of the apple
• tree
• Apple growers
• associations
• Harvesting, packing and
• production

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Supermarkets

• Evolution of the supermarket

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Economics
Apple industry Grocers Supermarkets Marketing
and advertising Production, packing and
shipping Orcharding Apple growers
associations Apple-based food products Careers in
agriculture, weather, environment . . .
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More to be added
This is a starter brainstorming slide show what
can we teach through the theme of Johnny
Appleseed? Please check back to see what we have
added. In the meantime, please sign up to join
the Global Johnny Appleseed Project and plant at
least two trees at your school! We will be
adding quite a bit more The Arts Multiple
Literacies Big Questions to Guide Student Research