Transportation Unit Lesson Plan - Educational Standards

TRANSPORTATION UNIT LESSON PLAN

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National University

In partial fulfillment for the requirements for TED 635

William Pine

May 3, 2012

Abstract

This unit plan incorporates educational standards from the history/social science, physical education, and visual and performing arts content areas. The lesson surrounds a theme on transportation in which Kindergarten students will learn about the different forms of transportation in the present and in the past. The plan spans over a week and involves the children's imaginations, physical abilities, community awareness, and requires them to work and share with their peers in order to accomplish a task. It also accesses prior knowledge of names of vehicles which the students have been learning about in the prior week.

Although the content areas are distinct from each other many of the lessons are connected as they share the same concept. Student will learn how to express and explain a concept in different ways. Performance, physical fitness, posters, and using new vocabulary are all tools that students will gain from their participation in the week's lessons. There are other academic areas briefly visited in the plan. Math and Literacy are involved; the ideas provide a great base to creating lesson plans that addresses time and the letters T for traffic and M for map. The plan is a great tool to providing students with depth of the topic.

Monday

Content Area: Standard (Learner Outcomes): Instructional Activities:

Social Studies/ History K.6 Students understand that history relates to events, people, and places of other times.

The class has been talking about different vehicles and identifying their names over the past week. They can use this info to participate in a discussion about travel. Ask students to think of transportation without wheels. History of flight and the car and what life was like before its invention. Game guess what the picture is. Show half of a picture on an overhead projector and have students guess the historical forms of transportation (i.e. boat, horse...)

Visual and Performing Arts 2.1 Perform imitative movements, rhythmical activities, and theatre games After discussing historical forms of transportation. Students will imagine themselves back in time traveling from one place to another. Using yard sticks, a gym mat, and the structures on the outdoor play area will work in groups to develop a 2 minute skit about where they are going and what they are traveling on. Students must use imitative movement to portray the motion of the vehicle. Each group will perform for the class and the class will have to guess what form of transportation the performing group is using.

Physical Education

1.1 Travel within a large group, without bumping into others or falling, while using loco motor skills Explain to students that safe traveling is important. Vehicles operators have to make sure they don't bump into other vehicles or it can be very dangerous. The class will practice walking then running in lanes in the gym without bumping into others or falling. Students will travel together in a "one way" direction, then in 2 groups for "two way" traffic simulation. Finally the teacher will become the center of a 4 way intersection holding a traffic light. Students will practice turning left and right without running into others or pushing.

Tuesday

Content Area: Standard (Learner Outcomes): Instructional Activities:

Social Studies/ History

K.3 Students match simple descriptions of work that people do and the names of related jobs at the school, in the local community, and from historical accounts. Teacher will demonstrate matching pictures of vehicles with the people responsible of operating the vehicle in various settings.. In groups students will complete 1 poster out of the following: National Community, Historical, and School Transportation. Students will match the vehicle operator to the correct vehicle.

Visual and Performing Arts 3.2 Portray different community members, such as firefighters, family, teachers, and clerks, through role-playing activities. Following the social studies activities students will participate in role playing characters from their poster. Students will use materials in the art center to make a hat appropriate for each character. Each group should have part of its members portraying vehicle operators and the other members should be passengers or if necessary other workers that operate the same vehicle like co-pilot or flight attendants.

Physical Education Rhythmic Skills

1.16 Perform locomotor and nonlocomotor movements to a steady beat.

1.17 Clap in time to a simple, rhythmic beat.. This lesson will be based off of the rhythms that can be heard from vehicles. Engines, windshield wipers, train wheels tend to have a patterned sound that can be turned into a rhythm. A CD of automobile sounds will play and then students will mimc the rhythm first by clapping then by tapping their feet. Student will form a train by connecting to each others shoulders while in line. They will travel the gym by moving their feet in rhythm.

Student will move around the gym like a bus in 2 adjacent lines. Student will use their feet for a rhythm and include their arms as windshield wipers.

Wednesday

Content Area: Standard (Learner Outcomes): Instructional Activities:

Social Studies/ History K..4 Students compare and contrast the locations of people, places, and environments and describe their characteristics.

In preparation of reading and creating a map. Students will practice describing the location of vehicles on a map. Students will determine the relative locations of the vehicles using the terms