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What's the biggest apple in the world?
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What's the biggest apple in the world?
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“The students had a great time, they impressed me with their teamwork and persistence!!”
· Tami · Teacher
“The making of the apple trappers. Great practice of the engineering design model.”
· Sharon · Teacher
“The students really enjoyed creating devices and trying ideas. I appreciated the emphasis put on the power of failing and trying again.”
· Jen · Teacher
“Very fun activity for the first day of Fall!! The students were amazed how many kinds of apples there are! They did a great job creating their apple trappers!”
· Lauren · Teacher
“The videos and the STEM building project activity!!! They absolutely LOVED the apple picker activity!!”
· Donna · Teacher
“My second grade class and I loved this mini lesson. We worked on the accompanying activity and it was a hit! Apple Trappers were a wonderful team building activity! Thank you! ”
· · Teacher
“The failures help to teach how to persevere!”
· Jolene · Teacher
“Great lesson for engagement and engineering strategies! ”
· Kami · Teacher
“My first graders LOVED the engineering activity! They are still creating and testing their apple grabbers at home! ”
· Karen · Teacher
“The making of the apple trappers was a fun activity that engaged the students and got them to think creatively and constructively.”
· Ashley · Teacher
“The hands on Apple Trappers was an awesome experience. We used our recycle bin to gather the papers we needed and went to town! It was an excellent listen, watch & learn, collaborative, turn taking, trial & error marvelous mayhem session! Thank you”
· Barbara · Teacher
“The lesson reinforced a key point: often innovations do not succeed the first time, but the information one gains through early challenges helps scientists and inventors make productive changes so they will eventually succeed.”
· Lisa · Teacher
“The students really enjoyed tweaking their inventions to improve the designs. ”
· Holly · Teacher
“Love that it was complete and ready to go with so little prep. My kids were super-engaged and LOVED the activity.”
· Alonna · Teacher
“The hands on partnerships. We did it as a collaboration, which the kids enjoyed. I also liked that I got to use up some scrap paper! The note about using labels instead of tape was genius too! ”
· Ellen · Teacher
“The kids were so involved and for the most part extremely engaged in each of the steps. Clear steps, easy to use materials for the activity. Video initially made me groan when I saw the topic was about apples but personally loved it and so did the kids. It was a great intro/preview of standards relating to inherited traits. ”
· Beth · Teacher
“Very interactive. Allowed for creativity for all level students.Gave the opportunity to revise in a safe and fun way. ”
· Janina · Teacher
“The engineering was fantastic. The class enjoyed every moment of the activity. ”
· Naomi · Teacher
“My students just loved this mini-lesson and STEM activity. Creativity, problem solving and working collaboratively made this our favorite lesson so far! The timers were helpful as well! ”
· Samantha · Teacher
“My students love to problem solve and they had a blast doing the activity. From a teacher viewpoint, set up was so easy! Thanks Mystery Science team!”
· Tina · Teacher
“The kids had such a great time with this and even if they failed they learned so much about inventing. ”
· Elizabeth · Teacher
“The kids loved it. It was a great lesson that also taught cooperation.”
· Tonja · Teacher
“Loved watching the kids problem solve together!”
· Tanya · Homeschooler
“Great lesson and STEM activity! ”
· Libby · Teacher
“I LOVED the graduated steps and the timed work. It allowed all students to be successful and for those slower paced students to assess their own progress. Excellent resource!”
· Janice · Teacher
Lesson narration:
English Spanish

Grades K-5

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In this mini-lesson, students learn about a variety of apples. In the activity, Apple Trapper, students engage in the engineering design process and build an invention that can pick up apples in the classroom. Students explore the properties of paper and think like inventors - building, testing, learning from failure, and trying again and again!
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30 mins

Grades K-5

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