Transportation Lead Week Lesson Plan

NAEYC Standard 5.c: Using Content Based Knowledge to Build Meaningful Curriculum:
Using own knowledge, appropriate early learning standards, and other resources to design,
implement and evaluate developmentally meaningful and challenging curriculum for each child.
ECE Outcome 4: Uses best practices in teaching and learning.

The lead week lesson plan was on transportation. We read a book about a different form of
transportation. The children used scissors to cut different types of lines to a different type of
transportation. For art we used playdough and cars to see the different types of imprints the
wheels made on the playdough. The children had fun using real license plates to do crayon
rubbings on paper. For math the children had fun counting and estimating rocks in a toy dump
truck. With science the children learned about what types of transportation use in the air, on land,
and in the water. The children loves making edible school buses for a cooking/art project. The
dramatic play area the children had fun riding in a boat. They learned about boat safety and had
fun trying to catch fish.

I learned that by observing and listening to the children in the classroom I knew they were
interested in different types of transportation. So this is why I picked transportation for my lead
week lesson plan. The children learned so much about a variety of transportations and I also
learned what types of transportations the children in my classroom had taken to school or on
vacations.