had a golden delicious and a granny smith. we examined the two green apples, and discovered that the golden delicious had dark spots, and the granny smith had white spots. after tasting them, most kids loved the golden delicious, but thought the granny smith was sour.
the kids are always excited to start tasting the apples when we are done!
in the past, i have also cut the apples length-wise, and across the middle, to show the “star”. we have also used apple halves to stamp the shape onto paper. we previously did this part of the lesson when we picked apples off the trees behind our center.
even with the 2 1/2 