Transportation

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Transportation

• Jennifer Schaeffer
• Ashley Christian
• Dr. Helms
• EDE 417

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Transportation

• Unit Social Studies
• Grade Level Kindergarten
• Lesson Transportation

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Objectives

• The Student will -
• 1.Be able to identify the three modes of
  transportation. (land, air, sea)
• 2. Be able to categorize different types of
  transportation into the correct mode.
• 3. Be able to identify at least 5 different types
  of transportation.

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Modes of Transportation

• Land
• Air
• Sea

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Land

• Car
• Bus
• Train
• Bicycle
• Animals

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Air

• Jet
• Airplane
• Helicopter
• Rocket
• Hot Air Ballon

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Sea

• Ship
• Submarine
• Jet ski
• Canoe

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Activity 1

• Materials Play luggage, Play clothes, passports,
  food, tickets, play money.
• 1.Divide the children into 4 groups. Give each
  group a type of transportation. (bus, boat,
  plane, train)
• 2. Have each group decide what they would need
  for their type of transportation and have them
  role play a trip to wherever they want based on
  their type of transportation.

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Activity 2

• Materials toy cars, trucks, buses, etc.
• Give each child one toy type of transportation.
  Discuss the different ways they can be
  categorized.
• Have them get into groups of transportation that
  travel by air, sea and land.
• Then have them group themselves into smaller
  groups such as trucks (semi, pickup, dump), buses
  (city, school), planes (helicopters, Jets),
  bicycles (unicycle, tricycle), etc.

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Activity 3

• Materials Bikes, tricycles, road signs.
• 1. If it is nice outside, set up a roadway with
  road signs outside.
• 2. Have students learn what the different signs
  mean and role play using the bikes and tricycles.
  

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Activity 4

• Materials Chart paper, markers.
• Poll the students about how they get to school in
  the morning, and how they leave in the afternoon.
  
• Make a bar graph for morning and afternoon.
  Compare each graph with itself and the other
  graph.

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Activity 5

• Materials old magazines, chart paper, scissors,
  glue, markers.
• Make 3 posters using chart paper with the
  headings of land, air, and sea.
• Have students sort through old magazines and cut
  out as many types of transportation they can
  find.
• Have them glue and label the pictures onto the
  correct piece of chart paper.

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Books

• Are we There yet, Daddy?
• Virginia Walters
• Everything I Know About Cars
• Tom Lictenheld
• Going to School
• Joanne Mattern
• I Drive a Freight Train
• Bridges/Muchlenhardt
• Machines at Work
• Kindersley Dorling

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Books

• Oh, The Places Youll Go!
• Dr. Seuss
• The Polar Express
• Chris Van Allsburg
• Transportation Theme-A-Saurus
• Carol Gnojewski and Gary Mohrman
• Transportation (Questions and Answers Paperbacks)
• Editors of Kingfisher
• When I Ride the Bus
• Jackie Chappell

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Teacher Resources

• Resources, lessons and activities
• http//edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/transport.html

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Teacher Resource

• Books, games, and crafts
• http//www.fastq.com/jbpratt/education/theme/tran
  sportation/main.html

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Teacher Resource

• Crafts, activities, and recipes
• www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/vehicles/

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Teacher Resource

• Activities and Lessons
• http//patricia_f.tripod.com/ssmotor.html

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Teacher Resource

• Theme unit books
• http//www.oblockbooks.com/shoppingcart/html/pages
  /kthemes2.htm