TransportationEmily Feltz, Liz Sikora, Jodi

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Transportation

• Unit: Social Studies

• Grade Level: 1st

• Lesson: Transportation

Transportation

• Objectives:• Students will be able to identify 3 different settings of transportation

• Students will be able to label the different forms of transportation

• Students will be able to classify different forms of transportation into their respective settings

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• Student Activity #1 – Read-aloud• Materials:

•Book Cars and Trucks and Things That Go by Richard Scarry

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• Student Activity #1 – Read-Aloud• Read the book Cars and Trucks and Things That Go by Richard Scarry

• Discuss the 3 different settings of transportation

• Land • Sea• Air

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• Student Activity #2 – Modes of Transportation• Materials:

• Large, laminated pictures (square shaped) of all different types of transportation• Cars• Trucks• Planes• Buses• Boats• Helicopters• Jets• Etc.

• Music CD of the song “Locomotion”

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• Student Activity #2 – Modes of Transportation• Lay out large, laminated pictures (square shaped) face down of all the different kinds of transportation in a circle in the middle of the room.

• Have each student stand behind a square.• Turn on some music, have the children begin walking around the circle, behind the squares.

• When the music stops each student stops behind the square they are closest to.

• The students will, one by one, pick up the square in front of them and say the name of the picture.

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• Student Activity #3 – Transportation Classification• Materials:

•Pocket chart•3 sentence strips with LAND, AIR, SEA on each with a picture

•Sentence strips with all the different types of transportation written on them• Attach a picture of each to the sentence strip

•Bucket or basket

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• Student Activity #3 – Transportation Classification• Place the headings: LAND, SEA, AIR in the top of a pocket chart side by side

• Write out all the different types of transportation on sentence strips and put them all in a bucket/basket.• Attach a picture of the word to the sentence strip

• Have the students come up, one by one, and pick out one word from the bucket/basket

• Have the children put the type of transportation under the correct heading to form columns.

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• Student Activity #4• Materials:

•Pre-created Chart (see next slide)•Several copies of pictures of the following modes of transportation:• Plane• Bus• Child walking• Bicycle• Car• Boat

•Tape

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• Student Activity #4 – How You Get To School Graph• Have a large chart pre-created to put on the board (see example below).

Bus

Plane

Walk

Bicycle

Car

Boat

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• Student Activity #4 continued…• On a table lay out several copies of pictures of the following modes of transportation:•Bus•Plane•Child walking•Bicycle•Car•Boat

• Have each child come to the table and select the type of transportation they use to get to school

• Have the children write there name on the picture they chose

• Have the children come up the chart, one by one or in small groups, and tape their picture in the row corresponding to the way they get to school

• Reflect by asking questions like:• How many more people

rode the bus to school then rode their bicycle?

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• Student Activity #5 –The Transportation Stations• Materials

•Sand table•Water table•Paper •Paint•Crayons•Markers•Toy forms of transportation

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• Student Activity #5 – The Transportation Station• Split the class into 3 groups• Have each group start at a different station; sand table, water table, and paper airplane making.

• Have all the materials set out at each station.

• Have each group rotate to a different station every 10 minutes.

• The teacher will facilitate each station.

Teacher Resource Website

• http://www.kinderart.com/across/trans.shtml

Teacher Resource Website

• http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SSMDOTransportationUnitK.htm

Teacher Resource Website

• www.lessonplanspage.com/SSTransportationLandAirWaterK.htm

Teacher Resource Website

• www.instructorweb.com/lesson/transportation.asp

Teacher Resource Website

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

Student Activity Website

• http://www.nysgtsc.state.ny.us/kids.htm

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