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Title: Transportation in Everyday Life

Grade Levels: 2nd or 3rd

Length: 1 hour

Performance Expectation: The student will learn the importance of transportation in everyday life by discussion and by building a mobile.

Materials: construction paper, wire coat hangers, crayons or markers, pencils, scissors, yarn, glue, any other art supplies wanted by the student, magazines or newspapers, hole punches

Procedures:

Introduction: Start by brainstorming different modes of transportation with the students and write their responses on the board. Ask students how transportation plays a role in their own lives. Discuss the many benefits and conveniences that advanced transportation gives us today.

Development: Display a maodel of a mobile that you have already completed. Tell them to make with the supplies, or find pictures of, at least four different modes of transportation. Explain that each type should be its own separate, small picture that is not too large to hang from the hanger. Show students how to punch holes in each of the four pictures, and how to use the string to tie the pictures to the hanger. Instruct the students to write on the back of each of their small pictures what the method is, and the uses for it.

Closure: Have the students write a short summary describing the types of transportation on their mobile. Tell them to write at least two new things that they have learned about transportation. Hang the mobiles across the classroom so their work can be admired.

Assessment: Review the students' mobiles and summaries to determine if they have learned the importance of the lesson. Look over their summaries and make sure that they have listed all four of their types, and at least two new things that they have learned about transportation.

Adaptation/ Considerations: Use videos or slide shows to teach about transportation. Take field trip to transportation museums. Include another lesson about the postal system and how it involves transportation.

Reference:

Buchholtz, T., Capps, J.(1996). Transportation in everyday life. [on- line].Available Gopher: transport+at ericir.syr.edu

T. M. Cortopassi, personal communication, 10/97.

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