Here you will find a selection of activies and lesson plans to teach students about orchards, food-growing, and sustainable food systems (we even snuck some mathetmatics in there too!)
We hope that learning about orchards will help children to appreciate the beauty of nature around them, and to foster a lifelong respect for the plants and animals we share the planet with.
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Making Apple Juice
This a ‘how to’ guide for making fresh apple juice in schools, for schools with or
without juice pressing equipment.
School Guide Making Apple Juice
Making Dried Apple Rings
This a guide for a super low-tech method for preserving an apple glut which lends
itself to enterprise – why not sell apple rings to the wider school community?
School Guide Making Dried Apple Rings
Pruning Lesson Plan
Learn about the parts of a tree and why it’s important to prune fruit trees.
Fruit Thinning Math
During the summer it is important to ‘thin’ out the developing fruitlets – why not make this mathematical?
Lesson Plan: Fruit Thinning Maths
Lifecycles and Foodchains
Learn about the lifecycles and food chains of some of the plants and animals commonly found in the orchard.
Lesson Plan: Lifecycles Foodchains
Apples of The British Isles
Learn about the huge range of apple varieties that grow all around the British Isles with this
classroom-based lesson plan
Lesson Plan: Apples of The British Isles
Apple Bobbing and Descriptive Writing
Lesson Plan: Apple Bobbing – Yr 3
Apple Tasting and Orchard Explorers
Lesson Plan: Orchard Explorers & Apple Juice Tasting – Yr 3-4
Habitats and Bug Hotels
Lesson Plan: Habitats & Bug Hotels – Yr 2-3
Minibeasts, Habitats and Soil
Lesson Plan: Habitats & Soil – Yr 2-3
Orchard Art: Leaf and Bark Rubbings
Lesson Plan: Orchard Art & Blindfold Game – Yr 3
Orchard Art: Clay Faces
Lesson Plan: Scavenger Hunt & Clay Faces – Yr 3
Plant Lifecycles (June-October)
Lesson Plan: Plant Lifecycles – Yr 2-3
Pollinators and bug hotels
Lesson Plan:Pollinators & Bug Hotels – Yr 4-5
Tree Care
Tree Care signs
Lesson Plan: Making Tree Care Signs – Yr 3-4
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