Title – Land, Air, or Water?

By – Mollie Tucker

Subject – Social Studies

Grade Level – Kindergarten

Transportation Unit

Purpose of Activity:

To know the difference between air, water, and land transportation.

Lesson Objectives:

TLW be able to distinguish between land, air, and water
transportation.

TLW recognize different modes of transportation when being read a story.

TLW be able to place different modes of transportation
under the correct category-land, air, or water.

Suggested Age:

Kindergarten

Brief Description of Activity/Concepts:

Read book Dumbo on Land on Sea in the Air to class. Children will
place objects on felt board according to category-land, air, or water-as
indicated.

Materials Needed:

1. Book identifying different types of transportation.

2. Felt board

3. Air, water, and land transportation pieces covered with felt

Procedure:

1. Read book and have children identify the different forms of air, water,
and land transportation.

2. Have students discuss the story, recalling the different modes of
transportation seen and what others could have been used.

3. Students identify mode of transportation, placing it in the correct
category on the felt board as a form of assessment.

Questions for Reflection:

1. Name some of the different kinds of air transportation? water? land?

2. Compare and contrast the different modes of transportation.

3. Tell some modes of transportation that could be used given different
scenarios, for example, what would be the best way to travel
from your house to the local grocery store?

Books:

Walters, Jerry. Dumbo on Land on Sea in the Air. Random House: NY,

1972.

Assessment Strategies:

1. Listen to and observe children as they discuss the story, and the
different modes of transportation used.

2. Observe children as they place different modes of transportation in the
correct categories-air, water, or land.

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