Lesson Planning with Me!: Apple Seed Predictions

Lesson Planning with Me

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Sunday, September 14, 2014

Apple Seed Predictions

Guess My Seeds

Idea from: Everything Preschool
Clip art: KPM Doodles

I heavily altered this idea, but the original idea came from the Everything Preschool website.

After talking about the growth of an apple tree: seed-tree-apple-back to seed; and the parts of an apple: stem, skin, flesh, core, pips (seeds), show the students an apple and let them guess the number of seeds in it.

Record predictions on a chart, if desired.

Then carefully cut the apple open (cross-wise if you want to find the star in the middle) and count how many seeds are inside. Whose predictions were closest?

So you don't waste the apple you can have apple slices for snack.

For hands on fun: After cutting the apple in half, give each student a half and a spoon and allow them to dig the seeds out themselves.

Other ideas you could add in:
-Concepts of half/whole

-Function of each part of the apple (stem holds apples on the tree; skin and flesh for eating and protecting the seeds; seeds for growing new trees)