Johnny Appleseed Teaches us to Love Apples

Johnny Appleseed's birthday was September 26th. This week we studied about Johnny and also all about apples, including our study with a bowl of schoolmade applesaude.

This is Colin, my cute grandson telluing us that apples taste good and are good for you.

We did alot of Science this week about apples. We put our apples into groups to classify them according to their properties, including size, shape, color and kinds of apples. One day we measured the circumference of an apple.

We took our measuring tapes and put them around the middle of the apple.

Another part of our study we had to dig in the apple and removed all the seeds. Then we compared our number of seeds. Later we took our seeds home to plant.

Digging for seeds.

Studying our apples.

Being very scientific. Observation is the first concept in the scientific method.

We weighed our apples and compared the mass. We used a pound scale for some.

We also used a gram scale. Many of the apples weighed around 200 grams.

This apple weighed 212 grams. The sudents enjoyed using the gram scale.

Using the gram scale.

The next step was to cut up all of the apples.

Here we can see all the parts of an apple: core, stem, flesh, skin.

Cutting the apple into equal pieces.

more cutting

The worms in the worm farm enjoyed all the extra pieces we had left over. Worms love apples.

We attemped to weigh all of our apples to see if they weighed more as a solid, or as a liquid after we cooked them. Here they weighed about 5 pounds.

We read our recipe before we started to make the applesauce.

We gathered all our ingredients. We needed wather, salt, cinnamon, sugar and lots of apples.

Cooking our apples in a big pot.

Observing the changes which occured as we added heat and cooked our apples for about 3 hours.

We discussed that the matter had changed. We called it an irreversible change, because we can't put this pot of applesauce back into a pot of apples. The best part of this whole science experiment was eating our experiment! We enjoyed our applesauce. Some students ate three bowls of delicious applesauce. Thanks to parents for sending us so many good apples. Thanks to Johnny Appleseed for teaching us to love apples.