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The Life Cycle of An Apple | Apple Life Cycle | Science for Kids!

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Understanding the Life Cycle of an Apple

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Understanding the Life Cycle of an Apple

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Understanding the Life Cycle of an Apple

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Studying the life cycle of an apple is a great way to engage students in learning about life cycles and living things! Students can hold and observe

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How do apples grow? From seeds to fruit, this little nonfiction book takes kids through the life cycle of an apple... perfect for K-1 kids!

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In this activity, we are going to use our sense of sight and touch to help us observe, identify, and classify the different parts of an apple. Every apple has 5 basic parts: Skin- this part is the thin layer on the outside of the apple Stem- this is the part of the apple that connects to t

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My favorite season is fall and our family always enjoys heading to the local apple orchard. This year, since we have enjoyed more practical life science activities lately, I thought we would read about, examine apples and how they grow. This apple theme activity is so easy to set up, simple to do and tasty to eat! Perfect STEM for preschoolers.

PARTS OF AN APPLE PRESCHOOL ACTIVITY

APPLE BOOKS FOR KIDS

I chose a few apple theme books from our local library to read during our hands-on apple science activity. I love pairing books with hands- on activities as often as possible. There is always much to learn and these apple books offered some interesting concepts that I had forgotten about! We all learned a little something!
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WHY DO APPLES FLOAT?

Before we started cutting our apples, we decided to test whether our apples sink or float in water. However, we also finished with this as well by testing every piece of the apple in the bowl of water.

I love sink or float experiments for easy preschool science because it gives kids the opportunity to make predictions and talk about why they thin something will sink or float. Of course apples are quite intriguing for a sink and float activity.

My son was amazed to discover that apples do float because apples have air in them. The air makes them less dense than water, and thus float. Why not give it a try!
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PARTS OF AN APPLE

What a wonderful and simple preschool apple science activity! Quick and easy but filled with lots of room to explore, discover, learn and play. Perfect for a September preschool theme.

Grab a few extra apples at the store or visit a local orchard and give this simple apple activity a try this fall!
Also check out our lifecyle of an apple tree worksheets!
YOU WILL NEED:

apples, green and red (whatever varieties you enjoy!)

tray for sorting the different pieces of the apple (Party dollar store snack tray works well!)

apple cutter or knife (Make sure to supervise and keep safety number one!)

Optional - magnifying glass

PARTS OF AN APPLE SET UP

1. Carefully cut or slice the apple to show the different parts of an apple.

2. Sort them into each section to take a better look at each part.

3. Take a look at each part. Use your magnifying glass to look at each part close up.

APPLE SCIENCE: EXAMINING AND IDENTIFYING PARTS OF AN APPLE

My son loved using his mighty strength to cut through the apple and it's great for practical life skills as well. By using the apple slicer, we were able to take apart the apple for more careful observation of the different parts. Of course, a magnifying glass is a staple for most of our experiments. Lastly, tasting is a very important part! This hands-on apple activity uses all 5 of the senses too!

Here's a great Apple 5 Senses Activity with printable!

SEE the colors of the apples, the skin, the flesh, the seeds and the stem

HEAR the crunch of the apple when taking a bite or the sound the slicer made to cut through the apple

FEEL all the different parts of the apple: smooth, sticky, wet, hard

MORE FUN APPLE ACTIVITIES

INVESTIGATE THE PARTS OF AN APPLE WITH 5 SENSES!

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Parts Of An Apple Activity - Little Bins for Little Hands

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My favorite season is fall and our family always enjoys heading to the local apple orchard. This year, since we have enjoyed more practical life science activities lately, I thought we would read about, examine apples and how they grow. This apple theme activity is so easy to set up, simple to do and tasty to eat!

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Parts of an Apple Read Aloud | All About Apples

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The apple tree (Malus domestica) is a deciduous tree in the rose family best known for its sweet, pomaceous fruit, the apple. It is cultivated worldwide as a fruit tree, and is the most widely grown species in the genus Malus. The tree originated in Central Asia, where its wild ancestor, Malus sieversii, is still found today. Apples have been grown for thousands of years in Asia and Europe, and were brought to North America by European colonists. Apples have religious and mythological significance in many cultures, including Norse, Greek and European Christian traditions.

Apple trees are large if grown from seed, but small if grafted onto roots (rootstock). There are more than 7,500 known cultivars of apples, resulting in a range of desired characteristics. Different cultivars are bred for various tastes and uses, including cooking, eating raw and cider production. Apples are generally propagated by grafting, although wild apples grow readily from seed. Trees and fruit are prone to a number of fungal, bacterial and pest problems, which can be controlled by a number of organic and non-organic means. In 2010, the fruit's genome was sequenced as part of research on disease control and selective breeding in apple production.

Worldwide production of apples in 2013 was 80.8 million tonnes, with China accounting for 49% of the total.

Apples are in the group Maloideae. It is a subfamily of the family . They are in the same subfamily as pears. Its family is the family of rose like plants, and roses are in the family.

Botanical information

The apple has a small, leaf-shedding tree that grows up to 3 to 12 metres (9.8 to 39.4 ft) tall. The apple tree has a broad crown with thick twigs. The leaves are alternately arranged simple ovals. They are 5 to 12 centimetres long and 3-6centimetres (1.2-2.4in) wide. It has a sharp top with a soft underside. Blossoms come out in spring at the same time that the leaves begin to bud. The flowers are white. They also have a slightly pink color. They are five petaled, and 2.5 to 3.5centimetres (0.98 to 1.4in) in diameter. The fruit matures in autumn. It is usually 5 to 9centimetres (2.0 to 3.5in) in diameter. There are five carpels arranged in a star in the middle of the fruit. Every carpel has one to three seeds.

Wild ancestors

The wild ancestor of apple trees is Malus sieversii. They grow wild in the mountains of Central Asia in the north of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Xinjiang, China, and possibly also Malus sylvestris. Unlike domesticated apples, their leaves become red in autumn. They are being used recently to develop Malus domestica to grow in colder climates.

The apple tree was possibly the earliest tree to be cultivated. Its fruits have become better over thousands of years. It is said that Alexander the Great discovered dwarf apples in Asia Minor in 300 BC. Asia and Europe have used winter apples as an important food for thousands of years. From when Europeans arrived, Argentina and the United States have used apples as food as well. Apples were brought to North America in the 1600s. The first apple orchard on the North American continent was said to be near Boston in 1625. In the 1900s, costly fruit industries, where the apple was a very important species, began developing.

Apple cultivars

If one wants to grow a certain type of apple it is not possible to do this by planting a seed from the wanted type. The seed will have DNA from the apple that the seeds came from, but it will also have DNA from the apple flower that pollinated the seeds, which may well be a different type. This means that the tree which would grow from planting would be a mixture of two. In order to grow a certain type of apple, a small twig, or 'scion', is cut from the tree that grows the type of apple desired, and then added on to a specially grown stump called a rootstock. The tree that grows will only create apples of the type needed.

There are more than 7,500 known cultivars of apples. Different cultivars are available for temperate and subtropical climates. One large collection of over 2,100 apple cultivars is at the National Fruit Collection in England. Most of these cultivars are grown for eating fresh (dessert apples). However, some are grown simply for cooking or making cider. Cider apples are usually too tart to eat immediately. However, they give cider a rich flavor that dessert apples cannot.

Most popular apple cultivars are soft but crisp. Colorful skin, easy shipping, disease resistance, ' Red Delicious' apple shape, and popular flavor are also needed. Modern apples are usually sweeter than older cultivars. This is because popular tastes in apples have become different. Most North Americans and Europeans enjoy sweet apples. Extremely sweet apples with hardly any acid taste are popular in Asia and India.

In the United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom there are about 3000 different types of apples. The most common apple type grown in England is the 'Bramley seedling', which is a popular cooking apple.

Apple orchards are not as common as they were in the early 1900s, when apples were rarely brought in from other countries. ' Apple Day' is celebrated each October 21 in many countries.

In North America

Many apples are grown in temperate parts of the United States and Canada. In many areas where apple growing is important, people have huge celebrations:

Varieties of apples

There are lots of different varieties of apples, including:

Human consumption

The whole fruit including the skin, except for the seeds, is suitable for human consumption. The core, containing the seeds, is usually not eaten and is discarded.

Apples can be consumed various ways: juice, raw in salads, baked in pies, cooked into sauces, and other baked dishes.

Several techniques are used to preserve apples and apple products. Apples can be canned, dried or frozen. Canned or frozen apples are eventually baked into pies or other cooked dishes. Apple juice or cider is also bottled. Apple juice is often concentrated and frozen.

Popular uses

Apples are often eaten raw. Cultivars bred for raw consumption are termed dessert or table apples.

In the UK, a toffee apple is a traditional confection made by coating an apple in hot toffee and allowing it to cool. Similar treats in the U.S. are candy apples (coated in a hard shell of crystallized sugar syrup), and caramel apples (coated with cooled caramel).

Apples are eaten with honey at the Jewish New Year of Rosh Hashanah to symbolize a sweet new year.

Apples are an important ingredient in many desserts, such as apple pie, apple crumble, apple crisp and apple cake. When cooked, some apple cultivars easily form a puree known as apple sauce. Apples are also made into apple butter and apple jelly. They are often baked or stewed and are also (cooked) in some meat dishes. Dried apples can be eaten or reconstituted (soaked in water, alcohol or some other liquid).

Apples are also made into the drinks apple juice and cider. Usually, cider contains a little alcohol, about as much as beer. The regions of Brittany in France and Cornwall in England are known for their apple ciders.

Sliced apples turn brown with exposure to air due to the conversion of natural phenolic substances into melanin upon exposure to oxygen. Different cultivars vary in their propensity to brown after slicing and the genetically engineered Arctic Apples do not brown. Sliced fruit can be treated with acidulated water to prevent this effect.

Sometimes apples are eaten after they are cooked. Often apples are eaten uncooked. Apples can also be made into drinks. Apple juice and apple cider are apple drinks.

The flesh of the fruit is firm with a taste anywhere from sour to sweet. Apples used for cooking are sour, and need to be cooked with sugar, while other apples are sweet, and do not need cooking. There are some seeds at the core, that can be removed with a tool that removes the core, or by carefully using a knife.

Most apples are good to eat raw (not cooked), and are also used in many kinds of baked foods, such as apple pie. Apples are cooked until they are soft to make apple sauce.

Apples are also made into the drinks apple juice and cider. Usually, cider contains a little alcohol, about as much as beer. The regions of Brittany in France and Cornwall in England are known for their apple ciders.

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