What Color is Your Apple?
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
Tree poster with apples from previous lesson
Lesson Assessment:
Students will identify characteristics they have, and traits they would like to develop for
personal growth.
Lesson Preparation
Essential Questions: How can you tell that you are maturing or growing up?
Engagement (Hook): Review the apple tree activity from last lesson.
Instructor Procedures:
1. Review last week’s lesson and the tree poster. Tell the students that today they will help their classmates discover some of the traits that we see in each other.
2. Counselor brainstorms with the class the positive traits and behaviors needed to be successful in school. These are written on chart paper or the chalkboard to create a word bank.
3. Counselor distributes blank paper to students and tells them that they are to write their names at the top and they should draw four large apples on their paper.
4. Counselor divides the class into groups of five. Students are instructed to pass their paper to the person to their left. That person is to select a trait from the word bank that describes the person and write it in one of the apples.
5. Counselor tells students to pass that paper to the person to their left. Students are instructed to look at the name on the paper that they have and then select a trait from the word bank that describes the person and
write it in one of the remaining blank apples.
6. Repeat Step 5 until each student’s apple sheet has been completed. Then, have students pass the paper to the left, which should result in students having their own paper back.
7. Counselor tells students to look at the traits written on their paper by the group. The class discusses whether they feel the traits described them or if they were surprised by any traits.
8. Have students write on the back of their paper some of the traits that they would like to develop for their own personal growth.
Lesson taken from: http://www.missouricareereducation.org/doc/guidelsn/PS1-Gr3-Unit1-Lesson2.pdf
Personal/Social Development
A: Students will acquire the knowledge, attitude and interpersonal skills to help them
understand and respect self and others.
Materials
Tree poster with apples from previous lesson
Lesson Assessment:
Students will identify characteristics they have, and traits they would like to develop for
personal growth.
Lesson Preparation
Essential Questions: How can you tell that you are maturing or growing up?
Engagement (Hook): Review the apple tree activity from last lesson.
Instructor Procedures:
1. Review last week’s lesson and the tree poster. Tell the students that today they will help their classmates discover some of the traits that we see in each other.
2. Counselor brainstorms with the class the positive traits and behaviors needed to be successful in school. These are written on chart paper or the chalkboard to create a word bank.
3. Counselor distributes blank paper to students and tells them that they are to write their names at the top and they should draw four large apples on their paper.
4. Counselor divides the class into groups of five. Students are instructed to pass their paper to the person to their left. That person is to select a trait from the word bank that describes the person and write it in one of the apples.
5. Counselor tells students to pass that paper to the person to their left. Students are instructed to look at the name on the paper that they have and then select a trait from the word bank that describes the person and
write it in one of the remaining blank apples.
6. Repeat Step 5 until each student’s apple sheet has been completed. Then, have students pass the paper to the left, which should result in students having their own paper back.
7. Counselor tells students to look at the traits written on their paper by the group. The class discusses whether they feel the traits described them or if they were surprised by any traits.
8. Have students write on the back of their paper some of the traits that they would like to develop for their own personal growth.
Lesson taken from: http://www.missouricareereducation.org/doc/guidelsn/PS1-Gr3-Unit1-Lesson2.pdf