Transportation

Jennifer Schaeffer Ashley Christian Dr. Helms EDE 417

Transportation
Unit: Social Studies
Grade Level: Kindergarten Lesson: Transportation

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.

Modes of Transportation

Land Air Sea

Land
Car Bus Train Bicycle Animals

Air
Jet Airplane Helicopter Rocket Hot Air Ballon

Sea
Ship Submarine Jet ski Canoe

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.

Activity 2
Materials: toy cars, trucks, buses, etc. 1. Give each child one toy type of transportation. Discuss the different ways they can be categorized. 2. Have them get into groups of transportation that travel by air, sea and land. 3. Then have them group themselves into smaller groups such as trucks (semi, pickup, dump), buses (city, school), planes (helicopters, Jets), bicycles (unicycle, tricycle), etc.

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.

Activity 4
Materials: Chart paper, markers. 1. Poll the students about how they get to school in the morning, and how they leave in the afternoon. 2. Make a bar graph for morning and afternoon. Compare each graph with itself and the other graph.

Activity 5
Materials: old magazines, chart paper, scissors, glue, markers. 1. Make 3 posters using chart paper with the headings of land, air, and sea. 2. Have students sort through old magazines and cut out as many types of transportation they can find. 3. Have them glue and label the pictures onto the correct piece of chart paper.

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

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

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

Teacher Resource
Books, games, and crafts http://www.fastq.com/~jbpratt/education/the me/transportation/main.html

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

Teacher Resource
Activities and Lessons
http://patricia_f.tripod.com/ssmotor.html

Teacher Resource
Theme unit books http://www.oblockbooks.com/shoppingcart/ht ml/pages/kthemes2.htm