Transportation Seven Strands Kindergarten Ashley Christian Jennifer Schaeffer Ashley Christian Jennifer Schaeffer

Table of Contents / History / People in Societies / Geography / Economics / Government / Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities / Social Studies Skills and Methods / History / People in Societies / Geography / Economics / Government / Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities / Social Studies Skills and Methods

History / Students use materials drawn from the diversity of human experience to analyze and interpret significant events, patterns, and themes in history of Ohio, the United States, and the world. -ODE

Activities / Students will learn about the Wright brothers by watching “The Wright Brothers at Kittyhawk: A Charlie Brown Video” / Create a timeline for transportation. / Allow the students to play Oregon Trail and discover the modes of transportation used. / Students will learn about the Wright brothers by watching “The Wright Brothers at Kittyhawk: A Charlie Brown Video” / Create a timeline for transportation. / Allow the students to play Oregon Trail and discover the modes of transportation used.

Activities / Ask the students how long they think that people have been flying airplanes and allow them to share their ideas. Then, ask the students how they think airplanes fly and again let them offer their theories. With the students' attention still focused on the television monitor, display the Web sites listed below and read the text to the students as they view the images. / To understand what life was like as a pioneer, ask the students to imagine that they were going on a four month trip in your family van. You will be traveling through remote wilderness with no place to stop for food or supplies. What would you take along. Make a list. How is your list similar to or different from the pioneers. / Ask the students how long they think that people have been flying airplanes and allow them to share their ideas. Then, ask the students how they think airplanes fly and again let them offer their theories. With the students' attention still focused on the television monitor, display the Web sites listed below and read the text to the students as they view the images. / To understand what life was like as a pioneer, ask the students to imagine that they were going on a four month trip in your family van. You will be traveling through remote wilderness with no place to stop for food or supplies. What would you take along. Make a list. How is your list similar to or different from the pioneers.

Websites / / Information about the Wright Brothers and different types of planes / ort.html ort.html / Pictures of early mode of transportation / vr.shtml vr.shtml / Online lesson about early transportation / / Information about the Wright Brothers and different types of planes / ort.html ort.html / Pictures of early mode of transportation / vr.shtml vr.shtml / Online lesson about early transportation

Websites / htm htm / ols/LPShared/lpdisplay.asp?Session_Stamp =&LPID= ols/LPShared/lpdisplay.asp?Session_Stamp =&LPID=53346 / htm htm / ols/LPShared/lpdisplay.asp?Session_Stamp =&LPID= ols/LPShared/lpdisplay.asp?Session_Stamp =&LPID=53346

People in Societies / Students use knowledge of perspectives, practices, and products of cultural, ethnic, and social groups to analyze the impact of their commonality and diversity within local, national, regional, and global settings. -ODE

Activities / The teacher will begin a class discussion explaining the various positions of the workers on a canal boat. Each boat had a captain. There was a steersman, a mule boy and a cook. Each had an important job to do, in order to keep the canal boat moving. Ask the students to define each person’s role on the boat.

Activities / There are many people who work in the community. Let's name some of those people. (Write the responses on the chalkboard.) Typical answers may include: police officer, firefighters, garbage collectors, mail carrier, and bus driver. After children have compiled a list, go back to each person listed and discuss what modes of transportation they use to travel to do their community jobs.

Activities / Introduce the book Tap-Tap. Ask the students to identify the vehicle on the cover of the book. Read the book. Then explain to the students that in Haiti people use various methods of transportation including tap-taps. Tell the students that a tap-tap is a form of a bus that is colorfully painted and used to transfer people, luggage and animals. This vehicle is called a tap-tap because when you want to leave the vehicle, you tap the outside and the driver stops.

Activities / Begin the lesson about life of the pioneers who traveled west by reviewing the westward movement of the pioneers during the time of Johnny Appleseed. Use pictures from books and a large, simple physical map of the United States (ideally a primary physical map with only the state boundaries) to review how the early pioneers traveled, where they traveled and why. Review the concept that a pioneer is someone who leads the way into a land not known to them.

Activities / Locate on a map possibilities of where the students ancestors live(d). Describe how these people made their trip to America.

Websites / / rtation.html / / s/sec3/k2/unit7/u7kinl1.htm / / rtation.html / / s/sec3/k2/unit7/u7kinl1.htm

Geography / Students use knowledge of geographic locations, patterns, and processes to show the interrelationship between the physical environment and human activity, and to explain the interactions that occur in an increasingly interdependent world. -ODE

Activities / Read the book Dumbo on Land on Sea in the Air to the class. Have the students place objects onto a felt board according to their category –land, air, sea- as indicated. / Have 3 big pieces of paper, green for land, blue for the water and white for the sky and place them on floor around the room. Using the same principle as above have students place pictures on the appropriate paper. This activity is larger and more hands on if you have the space and time. / Read the book Dumbo on Land on Sea in the Air to the class. Have the students place objects onto a felt board according to their category –land, air, sea- as indicated. / Have 3 big pieces of paper, green for land, blue for the water and white for the sky and place them on floor around the room. Using the same principle as above have students place pictures on the appropriate paper. This activity is larger and more hands on if you have the space and time.

Activities / Explain that in today's lesson, they are going to learn how various forms of transportation are used to move people from one place to another. Draw a word web on the board. Discuss the three types of transportation (i.e. public, emergency and basic). Explain that public transportation is used when many people ride on vehicles together in order to arrive at a specific destination. Then state that emergency transportation is used when people need help and basic transportation is used by everyone in order to complete daily tasks such as going to school, work, etc. Ask the students to identify specific vehicles for each category.

Activities / Challenge the students to brainstorm some different forms of air travel and record their suggestions as well as an illustration of the mode on a sheet of chart paper. As the students are offering possible means of air travel, challenge them to be creative but realistic in their replies. Remind the students that not all types of transport are motorized and offer suggestions such as hot air balloons, hang gliders, and parachutes if necessary.

Activities / Show students maps of the major transportation networks in the United States. Locate major interstates on a road atlas, major plane routes in an airline timetable, and railroad routes. Have them explain how specific products might get from place to place. Ask students to discuss and/or list what they think would be the best and worst things about each method of transportation. For example, an airplane is fast but can't carry as much weight as a train.

Websites / &SSUID=269&SSTitle=Kindergarten+Social+Studi es &SSUID=269&SSTitle=Kindergarten+Social+Studi es / sons/11/gk2/belongings.html / &SSUID=269&SSTitle=Kindergarten+Social+Studi es &SSUID=269&SSTitle=Kindergarten+Social+Studi es / sons/11/gk2/belongings.html

Economics / Students use economic reasoning skills and knowledge of major economic concepts, issues, and systems in order to make informed choices as producers, consumers, savers, investors, workers, and citizens in an interdependent world. -ODE

Activities / Read a book about assembly line and how vehicles were made originally. Have student make a mock assembly line using candy and food. / It is important to know that these methods of transportation are produced in a factory. Students will learn that the various transportation methods each use a different number of wheels. Next, ask the students to sort pictures of transportation by how many wheels they have. / Read a book about assembly line and how vehicles were made originally. Have student make a mock assembly line using candy and food. / It is important to know that these methods of transportation are produced in a factory. Students will learn that the various transportation methods each use a different number of wheels. Next, ask the students to sort pictures of transportation by how many wheels they have.

Activities / Introduce the lesson by asking the students to think about why people need transportation and allow them to respond. After students share their ideas, explain that there are two primary reasons why transportation is necessary: to move people from one place to another and to deliver goods (or things that people use) to where they need to go. Tell the students that today they will learn some different ways that goods are transported.

Activities / Each child will be given a picture of a canal boat and a paper with different things the canal carried. They will cut and paste five things they want the canal boat to carry for them. / Begin by having students reach into the feeling box (a cardboard box with a hole cut in it and a piece of material acting as a curtain) one at a time. The box contains a toy car, a toy plane, and a toy boat. As the students reach into the box, the teacher states that the box contains three items and asks the students to think about what these three things have in common. Write and draw a picture to create a list of the students' ideas on chart paper. / Each child will be given a picture of a canal boat and a paper with different things the canal carried. They will cut and paste five things they want the canal boat to carry for them. / Begin by having students reach into the feeling box (a cardboard box with a hole cut in it and a piece of material acting as a curtain) one at a time. The box contains a toy car, a toy plane, and a toy boat. As the students reach into the box, the teacher states that the box contains three items and asks the students to think about what these three things have in common. Write and draw a picture to create a list of the students' ideas on chart paper.

Websites / /transportation.html /transportation.html / rtationUnitK.htm rtationUnitK.htm / PShared/displayunit.asp?UnitID= PShared/displayunit.asp?UnitID=1372 / /transportation.html /transportation.html / rtationUnitK.htm rtationUnitK.htm / PShared/displayunit.asp?UnitID= PShared/displayunit.asp?UnitID=1372

Government / Students use knowledge of the purposes, structures and processes of political systems at the local, state, national and international levels to understand that people create systems of government as structures of power and authority to provide order, maintain stability and promote the general welfare. - ODE

Activities / Students will work in small groups. The teacher will give each group a list of rules that have been broken while riding on a school bus. The group will collaborate and decide what consequences should be given and why / The students will work in small groups. Each group will choose a state. The students in each group have to decide what the speed limit is for the state, what forms of transportation (including airplanes) can be used throughout the state and why. The group can choose how they would like to present it to the class. / Students will work in small groups. The teacher will give each group a list of rules that have been broken while riding on a school bus. The group will collaborate and decide what consequences should be given and why / The students will work in small groups. Each group will choose a state. The students in each group have to decide what the speed limit is for the state, what forms of transportation (including airplanes) can be used throughout the state and why. The group can choose how they would like to present it to the class.

Activities / Have the students explain and demonstrate the purpose of rules for the airport. / Provide a list of signs and rules that you must use while traveling. Have students look for and report back about what signs they saw while out of school. / Have the students explain and demonstrate the purpose of rules for the airport. / Provide a list of signs and rules that you must use while traveling. Have students look for and report back about what signs they saw while out of school.

Websites / / US/rules.htm US/rules.htm / eedbrochure.html eedbrochure.html / ml ml / / US/rules.htm US/rules.htm / eedbrochure.html eedbrochure.html / ml ml

Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities / Students use knowledge of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in order to examine and evaluate civic ideals and to participate in community life and the American democratic system. -ODE

Activities / If it is nice outside, set up a roadway with road signs outside. Have students learn what the different signs mean and role play using the bikes and tricycles. / Compare the rights that a driver has verses a pedestrian sharing the same roadway. / If it is nice outside, set up a roadway with road signs outside. Have students learn what the different signs mean and role play using the bikes and tricycles. / Compare the rights that a driver has verses a pedestrian sharing the same roadway.

Activities / There is a traffic jam in the community, the students will decide how to solve the problem while maintaining order and explain why. / The students will demonstrate how a citizen can show their patriotism when using different modes of transportation or when traveling abroad. / There is a traffic jam in the community, the students will decide how to solve the problem while maintaining order and explain why. / The students will demonstrate how a citizen can show their patriotism when using different modes of transportation or when traveling abroad.

Activities / The students will compare the rights they have in America verses their rights and responsibilities when traveling to another country.

Websites / / beralnews/2002/godbus/home.htm beralnews/2002/godbus/home.htm / 0,1398, %257C225,00.html 0,1398, %257C225,00.html / /bike_safety.html /bike_safety.html / / beralnews/2002/godbus/home.htm beralnews/2002/godbus/home.htm / 0,1398, %257C225,00.html 0,1398, %257C225,00.html / /bike_safety.html /bike_safety.html

Social Studies Skills and Methods / Students collects, organize, evaluate and synthesize information from multiple sources to draw logical conclusions. Students communicate this information using appropriate social studies terminology in oral, written or multimedia form and apply what they have learned to societal issues simulated or real-world setting. -ODE

Activities / Divide the children into 4 groups. Give each group a type of transportation. (bus, boat, plane, train) 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.

Activities / 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. / Using a map of Ohio, find Dayton, Columbus, and Cincinnati. Report your findings to the class. / 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. / Using a map of Ohio, find Dayton, Columbus, and Cincinnati. Report your findings to the class.

Activities / The students will sort fact and fiction cards about travel and transportation. / The students will predict what they think the next type of transportation will be. / The students will sort fact and fiction cards about travel and transportation. / The students will predict what they think the next type of transportation will be.

Websites / dll/AAAOnline?association=aaa&club=133 dll/AAAOnline?association=aaa&club=133 / / rs/blrailroad.htm rs/blrailroad.htm / rs/transportation.shtml rs/transportation.shtml / dll/AAAOnline?association=aaa&club=133 dll/AAAOnline?association=aaa&club=133 / / rs/blrailroad.htm rs/blrailroad.htm / rs/transportation.shtml rs/transportation.shtml