Transportation (Paperback)

Planes, trains and automobiles, ships and spacecraft, too. They all make excellent subjects of study, with this handy unit to help. It begins with ideas for the classroom environment, such as a bulletin board and an Art Center where students can create a model vehicle out of recycled containers, boxes and other readily available components, using glue, paint, scissors, crayons, etc. for tools. Topics and activities explored include: A Brief History of Transportation, Transportation Panels (reproducible line art from several pages used to create a diorama), Vehicles for Transportation Panels, Active Games For Physical Education (playground roadway, relay road race), follow-up activities for the book This Is the Way We Go To School by Edith Baer, Busy Wheels (a song), Off to School We Go (a board game for two to four players), Tangram Fun, Writing Activities (about balloons, submarines, running), Going Places (illustrated pages for a student-made book about traveling), Transportation Tongue Twisters, Happy Campers, Race Cars game with chart for race results, Make It Float (a basic physics experiment), Reader's Theater (a script to be acted out by the class), The Mighty Train (art project), Sentence Trains, Logic Puzzle, How Fast Do We Go? (comparing modes of transportation), Vehicles of the Future (sculpting in dough), Homework Ideas, Picture Card Activities (including a mobile), Picture Cards of a wide range of vehicles, a Vehicle Report (writing and drawing), Transportation Day event invitation, and Transportation award certificate. Also features a full-color, two-sided pull-out poster with variouis modes of Transportation on one side and a Moving Right Along game board on the other.Teaching suggestions provided. Includes bibliography, and complete step-by-step instructions for all activities. All pages are reproducible and perforated for easy removal.