transport 2

1. Transportation
Melissa Bell
Tammy Church
Melinda Yates
ED 417

2. Transportation
• Unit: Social Studies
• Grade Level: Kindergarten
• Lesson: Transportation

3. 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 .

4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Student Activities:
Library Books
• The students will be encouraged to
bring in models of and books about
different transportation.

11. 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.

12. On-Line Student Activities
• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/the
mes/transportation.shtml

13. Teacher Resources
• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/vehicl

14. Teacher Resources
• http://www.coloring-page.com/transportation.htm

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

16. Teacher Resource
• http://www.libsci.sc.edu/miller/transport
ation2.html

17. On-Line Student Activities
• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/slide
truck.com

18. On-Line Student Activities
• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/vehi
cles/paintonline.shtml

19. On-Line Student Activities
• http://place.scholastic.com/magicschool
bus/home.htm

20. On-Line Student Activities
• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/cale
ndar/wheels

21. THE END!!