Johnny Appleseed

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Johnny Appleseed

• Keri, Jen, Jes John
• ED 417-02

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Johnny Appleseed

• 2nd Grade
• Lets celebrate Johnny Chapmans birthday by
  learning about his life

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Objectives

• For students to have a better understanding of
  Johnny Appleseeds journey across the United
  States
• Have students graph compare numbers
• Distinguish illustrate the stages of an apple
  tree
• Understand what makes plants grow
• Learn proper letter writing technique develop
  reflective thinking

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Materials Needed

• Books on Johnny Appleseed
• Websites on Johnny Appleseed
• Apples (green, yellow, red)
• Map of United States
• Paint Paintbrushes
• Pots, soil, seeds
• Writing paper, pencils
• Cloth grid

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Websites about Johnny Appleseed

• www.appleseed.net - Johnny Appleseed Home Page
• www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/9587/ -
  Appleseed Alley
• www.jappleseed.org/history.html - J Appleseed
  Co
• www.geocities.com/tanseyjim/appleseed.htm -
  Johnny Appleseed
• www.alphabet-soup.net/dir2/johnny.html - Johnny
  Appleseed

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Song about JohnnyThank You Johnny Appleseed

• Thank you Johnny Appleseed.
• We owe you quite a lot,
• For the apples that you planted
• With a Bible and a cooking pot.
• Your seeds were planted far and wide.
• You gave a helping hand.
• A friendly word you had for all,
• Across our frontier land.
• Thank you Johnny Appleseed.
• We owe you quite a lot.
• The lovely trees and apples,
• And the lessons that you taught.

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Activity 1 - Math

• Each child chooses which color of apple is their
  favorite
• Place apple on graph
• Compare and contrast totals

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More Math Activities

• Sort colors of apples
• Sort sizes of apples
• Create patterns of colors with the apples
• Use apples to do adding and subtracting

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More Math Activities

• Have children cut apples to learn about fractions
• Sequencing the life of an apple tree
• Tallying apples

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Activity 2 - Social Studies

• Teacher reads Johnny Appleseed by Steven Kellogg
• Children draw apples on map of United States as
  Johnny walks throughout each state

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SS Activity Continued

• Locating and naming states
• Discuss the months that Johnny was able to plant
  seeds
• Use a calendar to mark out the months during his
  journey

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More SS Activities

• Place events from Johnny Appleseeds life on a
  time line
• Listen to and discuss songs, poetry, literature
  and drama
• Make a map of their neighborhood and where they
  could plant appleseeds

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Activity 3 - Art

• From reading in book, children will paint the
  different stages of an apple tree
• They will use red, white, brown, green paint

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Art Activites Continued

• Draw a picture of Johnny Appleseed
• Make a diorama of Johnny Appleseeds cabin
• Coloring Johnny Appleseed pictures

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Activity 4 - Science

• Children will learn about how plants grow through
  a science experiment
• Some seeds will be watered, some will have sun,
  some will have neither

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Science Activities Continued

• Make applesauce and other apple foods
• Tasting different kinds of apples
• Discuss Johnny Appleseeds health and nutrition
  due to living outdoors

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Activity 5 - Language Arts

• Children will learn about proper letter writing
  techniques
• They will write Happy Birthday letters to Johnny
• They will also write to Johnny telling him about
  what they learned in class about his life

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Language Arts Continued

• Write a poem about Johnny Appleseed
• Write Direct a play about Johnny Appleseed
• Predict what might of happened if Johnny lived
  longer

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Johnny Appleseed Poem

• In The Apple Tree
• Tune This Old Man
• Away up high in the apple tree
• Two red apples smiled at me.
• I shook that tree
• as hard as I could
• Down came the apples
• Mmmmm were they good!

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This Is Done

• How About Them Apples?