Collaborative
Thematic Unit:
This is a theme unit for grades K-2. Students study different methods of
transportation using toys, books etc. There are poems and songs to complete
this unit.
Heli-Hound Home Page
Students can learn about helicopters and safety with this theme unit.
http://www.libsci.sc.edu/miller/Transportation.htm
This is a lesson plan for Kindergarten students. Students will identify
different vehicles and discuss how they are similar and different.
Transportation
This is a lesson plan for grades K-2. Students will identify modes of transportation
and name the purpose of each.
Cruisin' Teacher's
Manual
This unit is written for highschool students. It is designed to give students
a better understanding of how automobiles have affected American culture
during the last hundred years.
Wendy
Altobell Flight Unit
This is a unit for grade 1 students. Children learn about things that fly.
This unit is complete with masters to make paper planes etc.
Darla
Olson Aerospace Unit
This unit is for Kindergarten students. Students will learn all about airplanes
and their parts.
AVIATION
& SPACE CURRICULUM GUIDE K-3
This is a unit for grades K-3. Students learn about the history of airplanes,
parts of an airplane, uses of aircraft, why airplanes fly etc.
Nuttin' But Kids
Transportation Page
Here you will find many songs, poems and finger plays about transportation.
Paper
Airplane Science
This is a lesson plan for grades 2-6 that teaches the scientific process.
Education
Center Activity: Map It Out!
Written for grades 3-5. Students make a map of their journey from home
to school.
Education Place Activity:
Moving Through Time
Written for grades 3-5, students do research to learn about transportation
through the years.
Education
Center Activity: Transportation Museum
This is a primary lesson plan for grades K-2. Students are involved in
making a Transportation Museum by bringing in toy cars etc.
Education
Center Activity: The Places We Go!
K-1 children learn how to track their movements through a school day.
Education
Center Activity: Armchair Travelers
This lesson plan is written for grades 4-6. Students plan and design a
virtual trip of their choice.
Air
Quality and Transportation Lesson
Grade 2 students learn how pollution affects our environment and discuss
ways such as car pooling to cut down on pollution.
Plank
Road Lesson Ideas, Michigan Historical Museum
These lesson ideas help students learn about the role of transportation
in Michigan during the nineteenth century. The ideas can be adapted to
any area.
LitUndergroundRailroad.html
Here is a list of fiction, non fiction, and teacher resources to use while
teaching the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
and The Underground Railroad for Children
This site has activities and ideas on teaching about Harriet Tubman (one
of the women of the Underground Railroad) from a grade two class.
Underground
Railroad Assignments
Teachers can find questions for the novel The Underground Railroad here.
Women of the Underground
Railroad
Here is a list of heroines who helped in the Underground Railroad.

Transportation
Links
The Wright
Brothers
This site has background information on the Wright Brothers.
The Life of Henry
Ford
Learn all about the life of Henry Ford at this site.
World's Transportation
Commission Photograph Collection
Look at different modes of transportation from the early years. Good
site for comparing the technology of transportation. You can view rickshaws,
railroads, elephants, sleighs, sedan chairs etc.
Cyberspace World Railroad
Home Page
This site has many, many links related to the railroad.
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