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Tina Cortopassi
Title:
Transportation
in Everyday Life
Grade Levels:
2nd or
3
rd
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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