{"id":281,"date":"2008-09-22T23:42:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T04:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/281"},"modified":"2008-09-22T23:42:37","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T04:42:37","slug":"celebrating-apples-and-johnny-appleseed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2008\/09\/22\/celebrating-apples-and-johnny-appleseed\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Apples and Johnny Appleseed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Friday, September 26th, is the anniversary of Johnny Appleseed&#8217;s birth. Many classrooms are studying apples and fall right now, so I thought it only appropriate to share some selected resources with you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanstoryteller.com\/story-details.cfm?story=190\">The American Storyteller Radio Journal, Episode 190<\/a> &#8211; Nelson Lauver briefly discussed the history of Johnny Apple.<\/p>\n<p>The US Apple Association has a variety of downloadable materials.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usapple.org\/educators\/applestore\/p-3.pdf\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usapple.org\/educators\/applestore\/p-3.pdf\">Apples: A Class Act Teacher&#8217;s Guide P-3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usapple.org\/educators\/applestore\/4-6guide.pdf\">Apples: A Class Act Teacher&#8217;s Guide 4-6<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usapple.org\/consumers\/kids\/coloring.cfm\">Wise Guys Coloring Book <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanext.uiuc.edu\/apples\/edu-introduction.html\">Apples and More<\/a> &#8211; Here you&#8217;ll find some information on apples, apple history, and apple varieties.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2008\/09\/johnny_view.jpg\" title=\"johnny_view.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2008\/09\/johnny_view.jpg\" alt=\"johnny_view.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"205\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"161\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaapples.org\/kids\/appleseed.html\">Johnny Appleseed: A Pioneer<\/a> &#8211; This site from the Virginia State Apple Board provides information on John Chapman.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrsnelsonsclass.com\/teacherresources\/thematicunits\/apples.aspx\">Mrs. Nelson&#8217;s Class: Apple Unit<\/a> &#8211; Here you&#8217;ll find activities, reproducibles and photographs of finished apple projects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/passionatelycurious.typepad.com\/passionately_curious\/2006\/10\/apple_study.html\">Passionately Curious: Apple Study<\/a> &#8211; This is a brief description of an apple study that includes samples of student journal entries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eduplace.com\/monthlytheme\/september\/apples.html\">Monthly Theme: Apples<\/a> &#8211; This site from Houghton Mifflin provides a series of activity ideas and downloadable materials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waga.org\/ed.html\">Wisconsin Apple Growers Association Educational Materials<\/a> &#8211; Here you&#8217;ll find apple facts, word games and stories, as well as PDF files for your use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kinderkorner.com\/apple.html\">A is for Apple<\/a> &#8211; This thematic unit has a variety of songs, poems, activity ideas and book suggestions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agr.state.nc.us\/agscool\/teacher\/activities\/trip.htm\">Apple Orchard Field Trip Tips<\/a> &#8211; Here are some great ideas if you are planning on visiting an orchard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us\/score\/apple\/appletg.html\">Teacher CyberGuide: Apples<\/a> &#8211; This S.C.O.R.E project is focused on second grade activities on apples.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyapplecountry.com\/teacherkits.htm\">Apple Country Teacher Kit<\/a> &#8211; Scroll down for a series of downloadable lessons and activities on apples.<\/p>\n<p>**Jane Yolen has a new book out entitled <em>Johnny Appleseed: The Legend and the Truth<\/em>. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/missrumphiuseffect.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/book-review-johnny-appleseed.html\">read my review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Friday, September 26th, is the anniversary of Johnny Appleseed&#8217;s birth. Many classrooms are studying apples and fall right now, so I thought it only appropriate to share some selected resources with you. The American Storyteller Radio Journal, Episode 190 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2008\/09\/22\/celebrating-apples-and-johnny-appleseed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[758,162,31,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-science","category-resource-links","category-social-studies","category-teaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}