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Thematic Unit:

Fruits

Melimaril Fernandez

EDC 28

Final Project

Melimaril Fernandez

Edc 28

Thematic Units-Fruits

Art Lesson Plan

Topic/Concept: Fruits are an important part of healthy eating. Fruits give us lots of energy and help us stay strong. Some common fruits we know are Apples, Apricots, Bananas, Cherries, Grapefruit, Grapes, Kiwi fruit, Lemons, Limes, Mangoes, Nectarines, Oranges, Peaches, Pears, Papaya, Pineapple, Plums, Prunes, Raisins, and Tangerines. All fruits are different shapes and sizes, even when they are the same fruit.

Objective: Draw and/or paint the fruit bowl on your table.

Preparation: Show the children the different colors and shapes associated with each fruit.

Materials: Clear bowl with different types of whole fruits in it.

Lesson:

With a pencil, have the children draw the fruit bowl in front of you just as they see it.
When they are done drawing, they can color with crayons, markers or paint.

Assessment: How many different shapes did you detect? How many different colors did you observe?

Melimaril Fernandez

Edc 28

Thematic Units-Fruits

Language-Word Study Lesson Plan

Objective: Find all the fruit words in the word search provided.

Preparation: Follow up of Eating the Alphabet by Lois Elhert.

Materials: Eating the Alphabet by Lois Elhert, Word Search print-out.

Lesson:

Go over the words that the children need to find in the word search.
Have the children find the words on the sheet.

Assessment: How many words did you find? Were there any other words that you found that weren’t on the list? Which ones didn’t you know? Take these words home and find a picture of that fruit and bring it to class tomorrow.

Melimaril Fernandez

Edc 28

Thematic Unit-Fruits

Math Lesson Plan A

Objective: Guess how many of each type of fruit is in the bowl. Compare your estimation with the actual number.

Preparation: Read Aloud- All About Fruits by Vic Parker

Materials: Bowl of fruit with random amounts of different kind of fruits.

Lesson:

Place bowl on table with fruits inside. The children cannot count them. They have to estimate and record first.
Have the children present their estimations.
The children should count their fruits and record their data.

Assessment: How many more/less fruit did you have than what you thought you had? How did you estimate? What strategies did you use?

Melimaril Fernandez

Edc 28

Thematic Unit- Fruits

Math Lesson Plan B

Topic/Concept: Fruits are an important part of healthy eating. Fruits give us lots of energy and help us stay strong. Some common fruits we know are Apples, Apricots, Bananas, Cherries, Grapefruit, Grapes, Kiwi fruit, Lemons, Limes, Mangoes, Nectarines, Oranges, Peaches, Pears, Papaya, Pineapple, Plums, Prunes, Raisins, and Tangerines. BUT not all of us like the same fruits. Some people actually have a favorite fruit.

Objective: Create a graph with the fruits your classmates like and how many people like said fruit.

Preparation: Initiate the discussion of favorite fruit.

Materials: Graph paper, pencil, markers.

Lesson:

Chart all the fruits said and tally the amount of children who like that fruit.
On a piece of graph paper, create the graph with the pencil. On the left side the amount of children who like this fruit, on the bottom line the name of the fruit.
With the markers decorate your graph.

Assessment: How many children like apples? Bananas? Oranges? Etc…

Melimaril Fernandez

Edc 28

Thematic Unit- Fruits

Music & Movement Lesson Plan

Objective: Learn the rhyme Five Red Apples (beat of Five Little Monkeys)

Preparation: Ask about any known fruit songs or rhymes.

Materials: Rhyme- Five Red Apples

Five red apples high in a tree,

One looked down and winked at me.

I shook that tree as hard as I could,

One fell down….mmmm it was good!

(Continue rhyme until all the apples have fallen from the tree.)

Lesson:

Have the children just listen to the song.
Have the children sing along with what they know to the song.
Have the children listen to the song again.
Have the children sing along.

Assessment: Have the children sing the song on their own without the teacher.

Melimaril Fernandez

Edc 28

Thematic Units- Fruits

Reading Lesson Plan

Topic/Concept: Fruits are an important part of healthy eating. Fruits give us lots of energy and help us stay strong. Some common fruits we know are Apples, Apricots, Bananas, Cherries, Grapefruit, Grapes, Kiwi fruit, Lemons, Limes, Mangoes, Nectarines, Oranges, Peaches, Pears, Papaya, Pineapple, Plums, Prunes, Raisins, and Tangerines. There are many, many more fruits. More than the alphabet can name.

Objective: Create a banner with the alphabet. Using every letter of the alphabet, name a fruit.

Preparation: Read the book Eating the Alphabet by Lois Elhert

Materials: Eating the Alphabet by Lois Elhert

Lesson:

Read the book.
The children will create the banner adding the letters.
Under each letter have the children draw and label the corresponding fruit.

Assessment: How many fruits did you know with each letter? Were there any fruits that you didn’t know about?

Melimaril Fernandez

Edc 28

Thematic Unit- Fruits

Science Lesson Plan B

Objective: Use the chart provided to estimate whether the fruit will sink or float. Do not do the experiment before you have completed the chart.

Preparation: Introduce the chart to the children and fill it out together.

Materials: Bowl with water, different types of fruit.

Lesson:

After the chart has been filled out, have the children work by table.
Each table should drop the fruit into the bowl with water one at a time.
The children should record their data and compare with what their hypothesis was.
Ask the children to peel the orange and drop it into the bowl of water.

Assessment: On a piece of paper, answer the following: Why do you think the orange sunk after it was peeled? Wouldn’t it make more sense for it to float since it was “less heavy”?

Melimaril Fernandez

Edc 28

Thematic Unit- Fruits

Social Studies Lesson Plan A

Objective: Research each fruit provided. Where does it come from? Record your information.

Preparation: Initiate a discussion about where the children get their fruits. Record what their answers are. Provide pictures of a couple of fruits to the children.

Materials: Pictures of the fruits, the internet.

Lesson:

Pass the pictures of the fruits to the students.
Have the children use the internet to find where their fruit comes from?

Assessment: On a piece of paper answer the following: How does your fruit get to your local grocery store or supermarket?

Melimaril Fernandez

Edc 28

Thematic Unit- Fruits

Social Studies Lesson Plan B & Science Lesson Plan A

Topic/Concept: Fruits are an important part of healthy eating. Fruits give us lots of energy and help us stay strong. Some common fruits we know are Apples, Apricots, Bananas, Cherries, Grapefruit, Grapes, Kiwi fruit, Lemons, Limes, Mangoes, Nectarines, Oranges, Peaches, Pears, Papaya, Pineapple, Plums, Prunes, Raisins, and Tangerines. All fruits come from different places. The weather is different where each type of fruit is grown.

Objective: Research each fruit provided. Where does it come from? What is the climate like in that area? Record your information.

Preparation: Continue the discussion about where the children get their fruits. Ask what they think the climate is like there. Record what their answers are. Provide pictures of a couple of fruits to the children.

Materials: Pictures of the fruits, the internet.

Lesson:

Pass the pictures of the fruits to the students.
Have the children use the internet to find what the climate is like in the area where their fruit comes from?

Assessment: On a piece of paper answer the following: How does the climate affect the fruit?

Melimaril Fernandez

Edc 28

Thematic Unit-Fruits

Writing Lesson Plan

Objective: Create a book with the letters of the alphabet and a corresponding fruit. The letters will go from Z to A instead of A to Z.

Preparation: Discuss previous assignment concerning the alphabet banners and both books read to the class Eating the Alphabet (Lois Elhert) & All about Fruits (Vic Parker).

Materials: Eating the Alphabet (Lois Elhert) & All about Fruits (Vic Parker), construction paper, pencils, markers, yarn, and a hole puncher.

Lesson:

On a piece of construction paper the children will write a letter and corresponding fruit with name of the fruit. They will do this for all 26 letters of the alphabet. The children can color and decorate the paper however they like.
Once the letters are completed, have the children make holes on the sheets of construction paper so they are leveled with each other.
With the yarn, have the children “sew” the pages together.

Assessment: Read the book to your class. How is your classmates book different from yours? The same?

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