Teacher: ______Suzanne Suggs ______

Title: Johnny Appleseed / Subject: History
Topic:
How Did Johnny Appleseed Help the Pioneers Move West? / Grade:
Lesson Duration: 1 day – 45 min. / School: Kossuth Elementary
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Lesson Summary:
(A short 3-5 sentence summary of the lesson and how it will be delivered) / The students will understand how Johnny Appleseed helped the early pioneers who were moving westward to start new homes and farms.
National Standards for History Era: Link / Era 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Standard(s):
State, Local or National / Standard 4: The sources and character of cultural, religious, and social reform movements in the antebellum period
Themes/Concept: / The students will compare where they live to where Johnny Appleseed grew up and traveled. They will understand that a pioneer is someone who leads the way into a land not known to them.
Essential questions
(2-5 questions)
(What you want the students to know) / 1.  What was Johnny Appleseed’s real name? 2. Why did they call him Johnny Appleseed? 3. Where was Johnny Appleseed born? 4. What is a pioneer? 5. How are your lives different than Johnny Appleseed? Alike? 6. Where did Johnny Appleseed travel?
Elements (What you want the students to understand) / The importance of change and working together….you can make a difference.
Launch Activity
(Hook) / Show the students a picture of Johnny Appleseed from a book. Ask the students if they know anything about Johnny Appleseed. Put the students responses on an Experience Chart – What we Know About Johnny Appleseed……..

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Knowledge & Skills
(People, Places, times and vocabulary-what the student should be able to do. What skills will they use?) / John Chapman
Johnny Appleseed
Map
Massachusetts
Pioneer
Wilderness / Skills: 1. Cooperation
2. Drawing
Conclusions
3.Compare and Contrast
Lesson
methodology
Read the book The Story of Johnny Appleseed to the class. After reading the story ask the students what new information they learned from this story. Add the students Reponses to the Experience Chart – What We Know About Johnny Appleseed….. Discuss with the students where Johnny Appleseed was born. Using a large map of the United States, locate Leominster, Massachusetts where Johnny Appleseed was born. Next locate where the students live and compare to where Johnny grew up. Find the many places that Johnny traveled. Discuss how he traveled by foot and how little he carried with him. Explain to the class that at this time in our history people were beginning to leave the towns and cities they had lived in on the
East Coast (locate on the map) and were moving farther west to look for new places for homes and farms. There were no towns, villages, homes, or even roads where Johnny and the pioneers traveled; it was wilderness. Help the students understand that a pioneer is someone who leads the way into a land not known to them. The students will select their favorite part of the Johnny Appleseed story and draw a picture of it. Have the students describe their pictures and write this description on their pictures. The teacher will make a class book and read to class.

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Assessment Evidence: What evidence will show that students met the learning goal?
Traditional Assessment (Quizzes, Test, Selected Responses)
Teacher Observation and Experience Chart
Authentic Assessment (Performance Tasks, Rubrics, Projects, Dialogues, Portfolio, etc.,)
Student drawing/writing
Student Self-Assessment
Using the map to locate where they live and where Johnny Appleseed lived and traveled
Differentiation Associated with this unit
Students will paint a large mural of an apple orchard using paint brushes and sponges.
Resources and instructional tools: (Including Video Sources, Text Resources, Research Strategy)
The Story of Johnny Appleseed, by Aliki (New York: The Trumpet Club, 1963 – ISBN # 0440849845), Experience Chart entitled: What We Know About Johnny Appleseed……, materials to make student book, various pictures of Johnny Appleseed throughout his journeys, and a map

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