Transportation

Students explore transportation and communication.  In this multi-cultural history lesson plan, students brainstorm, then compare and contrast methods of land, air, and water transportation today and long ago.  Students work in groups to...

Engage in an 8-day study of different modes of transportation. Your students explore the concept of location and define the physical characteristics of places, such as, land forms, bodies of water, natural resources, and weather.

Zoe Saldana explains the word transportation in this 2-minute video with Elmo. Use this video to introduce your lesson about transportation, cars, airplanes, and more!

Students become aware of the importance of transportation in everyday life through discussion and by making a mobile of modes of transportation.

Students identify and name at least six different kinds of transportion, sort and classify different kinds of transport according to similar and/or different characteristics and identify the purpose of different types of transportion.

Students recognize modes of transportation. They research historical data from a variety of primary and secondary sources including the Harriman expedition journals, related web sites, and photographs from the expedition. Students...

Second graders compare the transportation system of the Eastern Woodland Indian Tribe and the Plains Indian Tribe. They use a chart imbedded in this lesson to further their understanding of the Plains Indians, then engage in a craft...

Students examine various modes of transportation used throughout the history of the United States. They explore various websites, answer discussion questions, construct a conestoga wagon using Tinker Toys and construction paper, and...

Students view murals that depict various modes of transportation. They discuss the importance of maps to navigation and create a map. They compare and contrast transportation of the past with modes of transportation used today.

First graders explore transportation. In this social science lesson, 1st graders are given pictures of things associated with transportation. Students decide if the picture is of something in the past or in the present day.