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Curated OER

An Apple a Day

For Teachers Pre-K
Students sort and compare apples before making apple prints. In this apple lesson, students use a painting to inspire art prints made with apple halves. Students compare and sort apples.
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Growing Minds

Apple Exploration

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Turn your classroom into a farmers' market! Reading Applesauce Season by Eden Ross Lipson or Monica Wellington’s Apple Farmer Annie, launches this investigation of apples, farmers' markets, and the people selling products. The class...
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Noyce Foundation

Apple Farm Field Trip

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Monitor the growth of young mathematicians with a comprehensive addition and subtraction assessment. Using the context of a class field trip to an apple orchard, this series of four story problems allows children to demonstrate their...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Yummy Apples!

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Young learners listen to a read aloud of Gail Gibbons book, Apples and the story A Red House With No Windows and No Doors. They compare characteristics of a number of kinds of apples, graph them and create a apple print picture. Learners...
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Curated OER

Fall Apple Unit

For Teachers K
1. practice numeral recognition 1- 10 2. practice counting a set of concrete objects and match it to the corresponding numeral 3. identify a digital camera and learn to take a picture;The students will: 1. Listen to the book, "Ten Apples...
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Curated OER

Apple Logic and Problem Solving

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine apple production in the United States. In this interdisciplinary lesson plan, students use problem solving strategies introduced to solve math problems associated with apple production in the United States. Student...
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Curated OER

Apples and Apple Activities

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners investigate apples. In this reading comprehension lesson, students read a book about apples then compare and contrast, make graphs, distinguish between fact and fiction and work in groups. Learners work in groups...
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Curated OER

Number and Operations- Raul's Apples: Word Problem

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers discover how they can use manipulatives to solve word problems. In this problem solving lesson, students read Raul's Apples Problem and then complete a worksheet, using beans or counters to solve the problem. Middle...
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Curated OER

The Apple Orchard Problem

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students explore various approaches to solving a problem of maximizing the total production of apples in an orchard. In this apple orchard lesson, students collect data in order to solve the apple orchard problem presented. Students plot...
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Curated OER

Apples A"Peel" To Me

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study the characteristics and uses for apples through this series of ten lessons. They look at the importance of apples in the US. They read literature about apples, graph, sort, and measure apples, and make apple snacks....
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Curated OER

Apples Galore! (Elementary, Language)

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine and taste 7-8 difference apples, describe the flavor/texture, then graph the results of favorites. Finally students write a paragraph describing their favorite.
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Curated OER

Hamsters

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, learn about the letter h, and eat apples all to learn about hamsters. In this hamsters lesson plan, students also use play dough to make hamsters.
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Curated OER

More Than or Less Than?

For Students K - 1st
How many apples is less than five? Each of these problems has two images, one with quantifiable details and one without (i.e. a tree with apples and an empty tree). Answers will vary as young counters draw objects onto the second image...
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Curated OER

Time

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
An interesting lesson focuses the growth cycles of plants and animals. Learners look at plants like radishes, peas, and apples, and compare their growth cycles to those of dairy cows. Some very good worksheets are included in this plan...
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Curated OER

Count the Objects

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Are there more apples or pears? Learners count images of familiar objects, and write the number below. Then, they color the object group with the most in number. There are four sets of objects to compare. Consider having learners circle...
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Curated OER

Adding and Subtracting Algebraic Expressions (Combining Like Terms)

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Everyone loves math when it includes food! This lesson tries to take the notion of combining like terms in algebra and comparing it to sorting apples and oranges. It takes a step-by-step approach to helping students understand this...
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Curated OER

More and Fewer: More Worksheet

For Students Pre-K - K
Young learners compare sets of pictures (2 sets of cowboy hats and 2 sets of apples) and circle which set has more of each. With only two practice opportunities, this tool would be useful as a "quick check" assessment or ticket out the...
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Curated OER

Ant to Apple Letter A Maze

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this letter A maze worksheet, students use their problem solving skills to find path for the ant through the maze and then trace the uppercase and lowercase letter As.
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Curated OER

How many can you count?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Counting objects up to 16 can be cute and fun. Kids count objects as they appear on the screen, bouncing apples, racing cars, and pop up puppies make this a charming addition to your early learning math tool chest. 
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Curated OER

Multiplication of Whole Numbers

For Students 3rd - 5th
Break up multiplication into more easily conceptualized math operations. Scholars first examine an array of apples and write a multiplication sentence to represent it. Then, they determine which of four sets of addends is equivalent to a...
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Food Pyramid Power: Looking Back and Moving Forward

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students show their knowledge of properties of objects as it pertains to sorting and creating patterns. In this food pyramid power lesson, students show their ability to use whole numbers in different representations by appling...
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Curated OER

Virtual Reality Construction Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students utilize the technology of virtual reality in order to perform a construction project. The construction has to do with the making of a reality scene using special Apple Virtual Reality software.
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Curated OER

Count In Steps of One (pg 6)

For Students K - 1st
In this counting worksheet, students count and color 6 and 7 pencils or apples out of larger sets. The English spelling of "colour" is used.
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Curated OER

Green Apple Counting Bears

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this math worksheet, students make counters by cutting out 20 bright green bear cards. These have been printed on cardstock and laminated. Counters can be used by students in any simple math problem.