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Orange Instructional Unit
Grades 3-6
By: Jennifer Palermiti
This unit will look into the many different uses of an orange, combing science, history, language arts, and mathematics with a Florida based theme. This unit can be used to teach students of a wide variety of ages and abilities.
Goal and Standard
Goal 1 – To understand different information about the history of oranges, where they come from and how they can be used in today’s societies.
Goal 2 – To find out where the largest orange groves are located in the world and how many oranges they grow every year.
Content Concepts/Skills
Changes in nature; how oranges grow; experiments with oranges; Counting oranges in a grove
Materials
Library books about oranges; five or six different kinds of oranges; PDF downloads & website activities.
Vocabulary
Round, Sweet, Tart, Juicy, Hard, Seeds, Vitamin, Juice, Navel, ripe, delicious, Orange
Instructional Sequence
Make a KWL Chart with your students. Ask them to tell you what they know about oranges. Get different responses from your students by asking questions. Write your students responses on the chart paper or a white board so that all students can see. You may also want your students to copy the responses on a smaller chart like a hand out.
Read a short story about oranges that is appropriate for your students.
The Story of Florida Orange Juice by Chet Townsend

Have class review the process in which oranges are grown on trees by using sentence strips. All of you students should be able to sequence the steps properly.
Divide your students into groups. Give each group different types of oranges. Have students draw their oranges in their science journals and color them. Help students to write words to describe how their oranges look inside and out. Use the pictures of different types of oranges to determine what kinds of orange their group was given.
Visit a Florida Citrus Grove if the child is interested in getting more knowledge on orange groves or just wants to see one in person. Do a science experiment with an orange with your student have them put an orange in a glass of water but ask them first what they think will happen. Orange Experiment and Facts about Oranges.
Help students to peel their oranges and break them in halves so that they can see the orange center. Have them look at their oranges thoroughly and have them draw a picture of what they see in their notebooks. Then proceed to ask the students to remove and count the number of seeds. Whose orange had the most seeds? And who’s had least amount? This is a good time to introduce fractions to your students if this type of lesson is grade appropriate.
Allow students to take pieces of their oranges to taste. Help them write words to describe how a teaching about oranges tastes like. Next they should give a piece of their apples to each of the other students in the class so that the tastes of different kinds of apples can be compared.
Develop vocabulary for describing oranges. Download PDF file Orange Word Wheel - 8 Words. Have students write a descriptive sentence on each part of the wheel using vocabulary for describing oranges: Round, Sweet, Tart, Juicy, Hard, Seeds, Vitamin, Juice, Navel, ripe, delicious, Orange.
Have students write about their oranges. Have your students tell what there favorite things about the oranges are and what they did not like at all about the oranges.
Activities
Crafts with Oranges
Lesson Plans and Activities
Orange Stamping
Take an orange cut in half. Let children make orange prints with orange paint.
"An Orange is Orange"
Write a class book. On each page is named something orange (i.e. a fire is orange, a pumpkin is orange...). The last page is a surprise ending. Brainstorm for something silly, such as a picture of a fuzzy orange monster and the caption "An alien is orange!"
Activity Downloads
Note: To view the classroom activities, you must have Acrobat Reader installed. Acrobat is a free application available from Adobe Systems. Link Below for Download. http://get.adobe.com/reader/
Oscar Orange Coloring Page (PDF)
Take On Your Day (PDF)
Breakfast Maze (PDF)
Fractions Worksheet (PDF)
Mad Libs Worksheet (PDF)
Counting Fruit Activities (JPG)
Division with Oranges (GIF)
Orange Activities (PDF) http://www.floridajuice.com/activities (Website)
Website Games http://www.freshforkids.com.au/fruit_pages/orange/orange.html http://www.thefruitpages.com/kids.shtml http://www.primarygames.com/science/fruitsveggies/games.htm Next Gen Florida Sunshine State Standards
Florida Sunshine State Standards, Grade Three
SC.3.N.1.1 Raise questions about the natural world, investigate them individually and in teams through free exploration and systematic investigations, and generate appropriate explanations based on those explorations.
SC.3.N.1.2 Compare the observations made by different groups using the same tools and seek reasons to explain the differences across groups.
SC.3.N.1.5 Recognize that scientists question, discuss, and check each others' evidence and explanations.
SC.3.L.17.2 Recognize that plants use energy from the Sun, air, and water to make their own food.
Florida Sunshine State Standards, Grade Four
SC.4.N.1.1 Raise questions about the natural world, use appropriate reference materials that support understanding to obtain information (identifying the source), conduct both individual and team investigations through free exploration and systematic investigations, and generate appropriate explanations based on those explorations.
SC.4.N.1.2 Compare the observations made by different groups using multiple tools and seek reasons to explain the differences across groups.
SC.4.N.1.5 Compare the methods and results of investigations done by other classmates.
SC.4.N.1.6 Keep records that describe observations made, carefully distinguishing actual observations from ideas and inferences about the observations.
SC.4.N.2.1 Explain that science focuses solely on the natural world.
Florida Sunshine State Standards, Grade Five
SC.5.N.1.1 Define a problem, use appropriate reference materials to support scientific understanding, plan and carry out scientific investigations of various types such as: systematic observations, experiments requiring the identification of variables, collecting and organizing data, interpreting data in charts, tables, and graphics, analyze information, make predictions, and defend conclusions.
SC.5.N.1.2 Explain the difference between an experiment and other types of scientific investigation.
SC.5.N.2.1 Recognize and explain that science is grounded in empirical observations that are testable; explanation must always be linked with evidence.
SC.5.P.8.1 Compare and contrast the basic properties of solids, liquids, and gases, such as mass, volume, color, texture, and temperature.

Florida Sunshine State Standards, Grade Six
SC.6.N.1.1 Define a problem from the sixth grade curriculum, use appropriate reference materials to support scientific understanding, plan and carry out scientific investigation of various types, such as systematic observations or science-experiments, identify variables, collect and organize data, interpret data in charts, tables, and graphics, analyze information, make predictions, and defend conclusions.
SC.6.N.1.3 Explain the difference between a science experiment and other types of scientific investigation, and explain the relative benefits and limitations of each.
SC.6.N.1.5 Recognize that science involves creativity, not just in designing science-experiments, but also in creating explanations that fit evidence.
SC.6.N.2.1 Distinguish science from other activities involving thought.
SC.6.P.13.3 Investigate and describe that an unbalanced force acting on an object changes its speed, or direction of motion, or both.
Common Core Standards * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.2 Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text. * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.3 Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from non-literal language. * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.5 Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections. * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.6 Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters. * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.1 Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text. * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions). * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g., Herculean). * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.5 Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama (e.g., casts of characters, settings, descriptions, dialogue, stage directions) when writing or speaking about a text. * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.6 Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations. * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.1 Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.2 Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text. * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.3 Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text. * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text. * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.3 Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact). * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes. * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.5 Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem. * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.6 Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described. * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.1 Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments. * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution. * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.5 Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot. * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.6 Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
NETS Standards NETS•S NETS for Students: The standards for evaluating the skills and knowledge students need to learn effectively and live productively in an increasingly global and digital world
ISTE's NETS for Teachers (NETS•T) are the standards for evaluating the skills and knowledge educators need to teach, work, and learn in an increasingly connected global and digital society

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