Harvesting Apples Mini Unit and Notebooking Pages
This free Harvesting Apples Mini Unit with Notebooking printables will help your elementary and middle school students show what they’ve learned in their study of botany and an apple tree life cycle.
These Harvesting Apples notebooking pages can be used for any botany or social studies lesson about apple trees, how apples are used, and how they are harvested. Online resources, videos, and book recommendations are below to help you and your students with their study of the apple harvest.
With these Harvesting Apples notebooking pages, your kids can write about the history of the many different varieties grown around the world. For example, they could write about the different varieties that the pioneers carried with them across the Oregon Trail to plant orchards in Washington and Oregon. Or they can write facts they learned about the apple’s life cycle. They could even use them to write a story about a trip to an orchard in the late summer or fall to pick apples.
These free notebooking printables would even work for copying poems or quotes about apples, like this poem by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts, Apple Song.
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Resources for Studying Apple Harvests
Books
Non-fiction
How Do Apples Grow? by Betsy Maestro
Apple Picking Day! (Step into Reading) by Candice Ransom
Apple Harvest (All about Fall) by Calvin Harris
Fiction
Rain Makes Applesauce by Julian Scheer (Caldecott book)
Applesauce Day by Lisa Amstutz
From Apple Trees to Cider, Please! by Felicia S. Chernesky
The Apple Pie That Papa Baked by Lauren Thompson
The Apple Pie Tree by Zoe Hall
Apples to Oregon: Being the (Slightly) True Narrative of How a Brave Pioneer Father Brought Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Grapes, and Cherries (and Children) Across the Plains by Deborah Hopkinson
Videos
How to Make Applesauce: From Tree to Table
History of Apples (for middle school & up) from The History Guy, one of my favorite YouTubers
Online and Hands-On Resources
Apple Facts (Social studies, varieties, and science facts)
Make an Apple Pie from Scratch
Super Easy Apple Crumb Pie Recipe
Harvesting Apples Notebooking and Journaling Printables
These notebooking pages come in 3 levels to fit all of your student’s needs. There’s a large elementary-lined one, a smaller elementary-lined one, and a regular-lined one. There are 13 pages in total.
Each level of the apple harvest printables also comes in a photo, a color graphic, and in a printer ink friendly black/white.
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