Transportation

Melissa Bell

Tammy Church

Melinda Yates

ED 417

Transportation

• Unit: Social Studies

• Grade Level: Kindergarten

• Lesson: Transportation

Transportation

• Objectives:– The students will:

1.) Identify and name at least six different types of transportation.2.) Sort and classify different kinds of transportation according to similar and/or different characteristics.3.) Identify the purpose of different types of transportation .

Transportation

• Materials needed:

-Plastic models of different types of transportation.

-Boxes for box construction of vehicles.

-Magazines for cutting out of pictures of different types of transportation.

Transportation

• Materials Needed Continued:– Art supplies for making a driver’s license:

tag board, clear contact paper, photo of child, scale, and meter stick.

– A collection of library books relating to different forms of transportation.

– Action poems

Student Activities:Plastic Models

• The students will get into groups of 3-5 to observe and discuss the different uses of their particular plastic model.

• A representative from each group will share the different uses they have come up with.

Student Activities: Box Construction

• After a brief discussion of the different body parts of a vehicle, the students will get into groups of 3-5 and construct vehicles out of the supplied cardboard boxes.

Student Activities:Magazine Collage

• The students will look through old magazines and cut out examples of transportation.

• Then the students will construct a class transportation collage labeling and identifying each form of transportation.

Student Activities:Driver’s License

• The students will have their picture taken with a Polaroid camera, and have their height and weight measured.

• The students will then create their own driver’s license using the provided materials.

Student Activities:Library Books

• The students will be encouraged to bring in models of and books about different transportation.

Student Activities:Action Poems

• The students will develop their own rhyming action poem about a form of transportation.

• They will each receive the opportunity to share their poems with the other students.

On-Line Student Activities

• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/transportation.shtml

Teacher Resources

• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/vehicles

Teacher Resources

• http://www.coloring-page.com/transportation.html

Teacher Resources

• http://www.education-world.com/a_sites/sites041.shtml

Teacher Resource

• http://www.libsci.sc.edu/miller/transportation2.html

On-Line Student Activities

• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/slidetruck.com

On-Line Student Activities

• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/vehicles/paintonline.shtml

On-Line Student Activities

• http://place.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/home.htm

On-Line Student Activities

• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/calendar/wheels

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