POWER POINT LESSON By: Marissa Wheeler ED

OUR WORLD UNIT Including: Lessons on Transportation for Kindergarten

OBJECTIVES Students will be able to orally label and describe at least four different vehicles used for transportation. Students will be able to understand and explain orally what transportation is and what we use it for in our world. Students will be able to compare and contrast the vehicles. Students will be able to organize the different vehicles into groups based on certain characteristics. Using their knowledge of vehicles, students will invent a new vehicle. Students will paint a picture of their new vehicle and describe it’s usefulness orally to the class.

MATERIALS Paint Books on transportation Videos on transportation TV & VCR Sorting cards Paper/easel Toy vehicles Writing utensils Permission slips (if required)

WEB SITES ctory.nsfhttp://www4.nationalacademies.org/trb/dire ctory.nsf

ACTIVITIES Activity #1: Trip to the Parking Lot The students and teacher will go outside to the teacher parking lot if possible and observe the different vehicles. Looking at shape, color, and size. As a class, back inside, we will give general labels to all the vehicles we saw as well as any vehicles we know but did not see.

ACTIVITIES Activity #2: Sorting game The students will use their knowledge of the vehicles we labeled and play a sorting game. They will sort the cards by the characteristics using the pictures on the cards.

ACTIVITIES Activity #3: Beginning Sounds After going over everything we have talked about so far, we will continue to expand on the concept of transportation. Students will watch a video on transportation, then complete a worksheet. The worksheet asks the students to write the beginning sounds of the vehicles in the picture.

ACTIVITIES Activity #4: Test It Out Project The students will use this activity to discover why most vehicles have and need wheels. They will have two toy cars: one with the wheels taped so they can not roll and one with normal wheels. They will roll the cars down an incline while observing each cars speed and ability to roll and move efficiently.

ACTIVITIES Activity #5: Paint The students will invent a new vehicle, paint a picture of it, and then present it to the class. They will explain what it is and how we could use it in our world.

ACTIVITIES Activity #6: Making a Graph After we review all of our new knowledge of transportation and vehicles, we will read a story. Then the class will make a graph showing their favorite vehicles of all. We will then count which had the most vote and which had the least.

PRESENTATION slides

What is Transportation? Transportation is how we get from one place to another.

Cars

Cars are one of the most popular forms of transportation. Cars come in all different shapes, sizes, and colors.

Trucks

Trucks There are many types of trucks used in our world. Can you name a few? –Dump trucks –Garbage trucks –Tow trucks –Cement trucks –Fire trucks

Airplanes

This form of transportation takes us from place to place in the air!

Buses

Buses There are many kinds of buses… –Charter buses –School buses –Public transit buses

Can you think of any other forms of transportation?