An Apple a Day
American School Counselor Association National Standard (ASCA):
Personal/Social Development
A: Students will acquire the knowledge, attitude and interpersonal skills to help them
understand and respect self and others.
Materials
Lesson Assessment:
Students will color the apples the appropriate color to illustrate their awareness of their strengths and what areas of personal characteristics they need to strengthen.
Essential Questions:
How can you tell how someone feels about himself or herself?
Engagement (Hook):
The teacher will display 3 fresh apples—one red, one green (unripe) and one with a rotten spot on it.
Instructor Procedures:
1. The counselor displays 3 fresh apples and asks students to describe the apples: color, texture, stages of development, and effects of rotten apple on the others. Possible responses might include a rotten apple can
cause the other apples to decompose more quickly.
2. Counselor distributes and explains the apple worksheet.
3. The counselor instructs students to cut out the apples, and glue on the community tree (if red or green) and on the ground section of the poster picture of a tree if they are brown.
4. The counselor asks students to think of other characteristics important to a classroom community. The counselor tells students they may make more apples if they can think of other qualities not already listed.
5. The counselor tells students that the tree will be displayed all week and they need to be thinking of how the positive characteristics contribute to the class community.
Lesson taken from: http://www.missouricareereducation.org/doc/guidelsn/PS1-Gr3-Unit1-Lesson1.pdf
Personal/Social Development
A: Students will acquire the knowledge, attitude and interpersonal skills to help them
understand and respect self and others.
Materials
- 3 fresh apples: 1 red, 1 green and 1 rotten
- Apple worksheet
- Crayons (red, green and brown)
- Poster with the outline of a tree and branches (without leaves)
Lesson Assessment:
Students will color the apples the appropriate color to illustrate their awareness of their strengths and what areas of personal characteristics they need to strengthen.
Essential Questions:
How can you tell how someone feels about himself or herself?
Engagement (Hook):
The teacher will display 3 fresh apples—one red, one green (unripe) and one with a rotten spot on it.
Instructor Procedures:
1. The counselor displays 3 fresh apples and asks students to describe the apples: color, texture, stages of development, and effects of rotten apple on the others. Possible responses might include a rotten apple can
cause the other apples to decompose more quickly.
2. Counselor distributes and explains the apple worksheet.
3. The counselor instructs students to cut out the apples, and glue on the community tree (if red or green) and on the ground section of the poster picture of a tree if they are brown.
4. The counselor asks students to think of other characteristics important to a classroom community. The counselor tells students they may make more apples if they can think of other qualities not already listed.
5. The counselor tells students that the tree will be displayed all week and they need to be thinking of how the positive characteristics contribute to the class community.
Lesson taken from: http://www.missouricareereducation.org/doc/guidelsn/PS1-Gr3-Unit1-Lesson1.pdf