Entry 5
Transportation refers to the means and methods of moving people and products from one place to another. This includes organized systems, such as public transport, or private use means, such as cars and private jets. First graders are likely to have personal experience of various means of transport. This helps you create activities in the classroom presenting the history of transportation, specific uses and attributes of each means, as well as how people use transportation to reach their destination. Explain to children that man needed means of transportation to reach his destination faster or to carry goods more easily. How has transportation changed over time? Discuss with children. Explain that hundreds of years ago, people traveled or transported goods with the help of animals. They rode horses or carriages to travel. A journey across the country could take months of travel in uncertain weather conditions. After the steam engine was developed in the 1700s, people could travel faster and more easily with locomotives. Goods could be transported beyond just the local areas. The steam engine is one of the inventions that was a key player in the Industrial Revolution and helped develop economic growth. In the 1800s and 1900s, people began using gas-powered automobiles for transportation and soon cars were mass-produced for consumers, changing the way people traveled forever. Have children think about how cars from fifty years ago compare to cars today. Some children may point out that today's cars might run on electricity, solar power, or on both gas and electricity.
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I will begin the lesson by reading the
students the book, “TRAVEL (Then and Now)” by Vicki Yates. The left-hand page of
each book looks at what something was like in the past, and the right-hand page
looks at what it is like today.It features fascinating photos of the past to
bring history to life for young reader.
After the story students will be asked how they got to school.(DOK1) (Standards 1.2.1A) After students respond, explain that people get to different places using various forms of transportation. Ask students if they know what transportation is. (DOK1) Explain that transportation helps us move from place to place and that there are various means of transportation that have changed over time. Ask students how people traveled long ago before there were cars and planes.(DOK 1) After listening to various student responses list modes of transportation into three categories : land, water, air.(DOK 2) (1.2.2 B) Discuss how travel has changed over time. (DOK1) (Standards 8.3.1C). Students will be given the option, based on their ability level, to show understanding of how transportation has changed over time. Students may either create an illustration or write a journal about what it would be like to travel to a faraway place then and now. (DOK 4)(Standard 1.5.1A, 1.4.1B)
Domains: 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 2b, 2c, 2d, 3a,
3b, 3c
I have many old pictures of types of transportation from Schuylkill County. I would be able to scan the pictures and send them to you. The kids love to see pictures that are from their area. One of my students said to me after looking at an older picture from the 1800 - it almost seems real. I told him it does seem real - that;s because it was real 130 years ago.
ReplyDeleteThat would be great Jen. When u get a chance if u could u could send them to my email Lori and I would love to use the pics ..... email is tomsl@mca.k12.pa.us
DeleteI will begin the lesson by reading the students the book, “TRAVEL (Then and Now)” by Vicki Yates. The left-hand page of each book looks at what something was like in the past, and the right-hand page looks at what it is like today.It features fascinating photos of the past to bring history to life for young reader.
ReplyDeleteAfter the story students will be asked how they got to school.(DOK1) (Standards 1.2.1A) After students respond, explain that people get to different places using various forms of transportation. Ask students to recite/tell what transportation is. (this should be accessing prior knowledge(DOK1) Explain that transportation helps us move from place to place and that there are various means of transportation that have changed over time. Ask students brainstorm, with a partner, how people traveled long ago before there were cars and planes. Students will be given drawing paper to illustrate means of transportations in the past(DOK 1) After listening to various student responses, as a group, categorize modes of transportation into three categories : land, water, air.(DOK 2) (1.2.2 B) Discuss how travel has changed over time. (DOK1) (Standards 8.3.1C).
Students will be given the option, based on their ability level, to show understanding of how transportation has changed over time. Students may either create an illustration or write a journal about what it would be like to travel to a faraway place then and now. Students will apply the concepts taught to predict how Louis and Clark’s expedition would have been different if they were traveling the same route now compared to in the past. (TIME) (DOK 4)(Standard 1.5.1A, 1.4.1B)
Domains: 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 2b, 2c, 2d, 3a, 3b, 3c