There's nothing like applesauce with apples picked right off the tree! Students each had a chance to peel an apple with our special apple peeling machine.
We checked out the "star" in the middle of each apple.
We cooked in right in the classroom and watched it turn from crisp, hard apples to mushy apples and then just to mush. We had just learned about solids, liquids, and gases, and one student asked if applesauce is a solid or a liquid, a question for which I had no answer. I said I thought probably a solid, but he disagreed, stating that it "takes the shape of its container," which we learned that liquids do. What a great way to show what he'd learned! We looked it up, and learned that applesauce is a "Non Newtonian fluid" (a fluid with solids suspended in it).
What a delicious way to learn science!