Fruit trees

Fruit trees

Pencil and paper
Overview
Using this Resource
Connecting to the Curriculum
Marking Student Responses
How do fruit trees change over a year?
In the chart below draw four pictures of a fruit tree, one for each of the four seasons in the year.  
  • Write in the type of fruit tree you are drawing.
  • Label the changes that happen to the tree in each season.
 
Summer Autumn
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Winter Spring
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Task administration: 
[Equipment: coloured pencils.]

  • Tell the students they are going to draw some pictures of a tree.
  • Go over the instructions with the students. Ask them to identify as many different fruit trees as they can. Once they have identified some fruit trees, select one that is deciduous for them to draw.
  • Students can either be asked to label the changes that occur to the tree in each season (as directed on the student work sheet). OR
    Students can be asked to describe the changes verbally, e.g., once the students have drawn their trees point to each tree in turn and ask:

"How can you tell this is a tree in Spring?"
"How can you tell this is a tree in Summer?"
"How can you tell this is a tree in Autumn?"
"How can you tell this is a tree in Winter?"

Copyright: 
Adapted with permission from the Ontario Assessment of Science and Technology Achievement Project.
Level:
2
Curriculum info: 
Science, Knowledge, Living World
Keywords: 
ecology, seasons, plants, trees
Description of task: 
Task: Students draw a fruit tree for each season of the year. Assessment focus: Seasonal changes of fruit trees.
Making Better Sense: 
Trees
Answers/responses: 
For each season the following features are drawn or described:
Spring

  • new green shoots/leaves
  • flowers/blossoms

Summer

  • fruit
  • green leaves

Autumn

  • leaves (and fruit) changing colour (and falling off)

Winter

  • no (or hardly any) leaves, fruit, or flowers on the tree

Adapted with permission from the Ontario Assessment of Science and Technology Achievement Project.