Johnny Appleseed Mini Unit Study and Notebooking Printables
These free Johnny Appleseed Notebooking printables will help your elementary and middle school students show what they’ve learned in their study of early American history, apples, and the story & legends of John Chapman.
This Johnny Appleseed Mini Unit Study with notebooking pages can be used for any botany or social studies lesson about apple trees, and for history lessons to learn how John Chapman became a legend in his own time due to his travels, kindness, conservation, and planting of apple orchards.
Online resources, videos, and book recommendations are below to help you and your students as they learn more about Johnny Appleseed and Johnny Appleseed Day.
With these Johnny Appleseed notebooking pages, your kids can write about the history of the man named John Chapman and how he was given his nickname. Or they can write facts about his travels and philosophy. They could even use them to write a story about one of the many myths or tall tales told about Johnny Appleseed.
There are even pages with black U.S.A maps to plot out Mr. Chapman’s journeys.
These free notebooking printables would even work for copying poems or quotes about Johnny Appleseed, like this poem by Rosemary Carr Benet, Johnny Appleseed.
The Johnny Appleseed notebooking pages come in 3 differentiated levels to fit all of your student’s needs.
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Resources for Studying Johnny Appleseed, John Chapman, & Johnny Appleseed Day
Books
Johnny Appleseed (Ready-To-Read. Level 1) by Jane Kurtz
Johnny Appleseed: My Story (Step-Into-Reading, Step 3) by David Harrison
Johnny Appleseed (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) by Patricia B. Demuth
My Little Golden Book About Johnny Appleseed by Lori Haskins Houran
Johnny Appleseed: The Legend and the Truth by Jane Yolen
Johnny Appleseed by Stephen Kellogg
Johnny Appleseed by Reeve Lindbergh (illustrations done in American Folk Art style)
Johnny Appleseed: Story of a Legend by Will Moses (fantastic illustrations)
Videos
History of Apples & Johnny Appleseed
The Legend of Johnny Appleseed a 1948 Walt Disney short
The Johnny Appleseed Prayer Song
Johnny Appleseed: The Man Behind the Legend from The History Guy for middle schoolers
Online Resources
Johnny Appleseed Coloring Pages
Field Trip to the Johnny Appleseed Festival held every September in Fort Wayne Indiana
You may also want to dive deeper into the subject of apples with our sister site’s Apples Unit Study for all ages.
Johnny Appleseed 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 Johnny Appleseed printables also comes in a photo, a color graphic, and in a printer ink friendly black/white.
Download your copy of Johnny Appleseed Notebooking pages from the Free Resource Library. Look under Individual Notebooking > Biographies
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