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TRANSPORTATION-----WAYS TO GO! |
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SUMMARY |
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This
is a multi-disciplinary unit on transportation for the kindergarten classroom.
It involves many hands-on activities and selected pieces of literature.
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AUTHOR: |
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Name:
Pam Pitrolo
ppitrolo@access.k12.wv.us
School:
Watson Elementary
Location:
1579
Mary Lou Retton Drive, Fairmont, WV 26554
Ph:
304-367-2156
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Kindergarten
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CURRICULUM
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TIME
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Reading/LanguageArts
Math
Science
Social
Studies
Technology
Art
and Music
Handwriting
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Daily for five days.
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MAJOR
OBJECTIVES: |
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The
students will identify forms of transportation and sort by categories.
The
students will identify opposites.
The
students will construct moveable vehicles.
The
students will illustrate/author their page in a class book.
The
students will listen to literature and recall information.
The
students will put numbers in sequential order.
The
students will explore with water play and weight of objects.
The
students will use manipulative games.
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IGOs:
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MATERIALS: |
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Pictures
of different forms of transportation, clue cards, cassette tape/record,
cassette player, record player, ditto of different kinds of transportation,
12x18 drawing paper, crayons, glue, Traffic by Betsy and Giulio
Maestro big book, individual copies and cassette, building toys, journal
paper, pictures from digital camera, Trains by Gail Gibbons, train
whistle, conductor's hat, large chart paper, magazine pictures, train sections
cards, ditto of train cars with numbers, Who Sank the Boat? by Pamela
Allen, large pocket chart, sentence strips and picture cards, large plastic
storage containers, water, aluminum foil, modeling clay, plastic bear counters,
prediction sheet ditto, ship in a bottle, small see -through plastic containers
with screw on lids, plastic alphabet letters (with or without magnets),
transportation pictures covered with tape, identification labels, On the
Go Bingo game, markers, individual boards. |
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INSTRUCTIONAL
TECHNOLOGIES (ITs): |
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Classification
with Power Point
Digital
photography/printer
Web
cam view of New York City
Scanner(journal
page and dittos)
Multimedia
CD-ROM
Digital
Video camera /floppy disk
Word
Processor/printer/labels
Vinyl
records/phonograph
Cassette
tapes/player
Television
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PROCEDURES/ACTIVITIES: |
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Teacher
Component/Student Involvement
Procedure/Activity
Day one
Guided
instruction, use Power Point presentation/oral
response, performance- based response, hands-on activity.
Procedure/Activity
Day two
Guided instruction,
guided discovery,use digital camera and printer/use
small readers, active listeners and participants, construct a moveable
vehicle from building toys, illustrate and write own journal page.
Procedure/Activity
Day three
Guided instruction
and questioning, use a multimedia cd -rom/active
listeners and participants, hands-on participation, view cd-rom, trace,
write, numerically order pieces.
Procedure/Activity
Day four
Guided instruction
and inquiry, demonstration, modeling, use digital video camera/active
listeners and participants, hands-on activity, experiment and record data,
predict, discuss.
Procedure/Activity
Day five
Demonstration,
discussion, have prepared labels from word processor and printer, pictures
from ditto.com, prepared bingo game and markers/hands-on
participation, interaction with partner.
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ASSESSMENT: |
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Day 1: Sorting of pictures
by location on their paper and in the Power Point presentation.
Day 2: Oral answers given for opposites, construction vehicle
designed and demonstrated, authoring journal page.
Day 3: Oral responses, correctly sequencing numbers on ditto.
Day 4: Participation, construction of boat, completing and recording
data, authoring and illustrating a journal page with a digital picture..
Day 5: Identification of transportation pictures, able to manipulate
alphabet letters by matching to spell words,. |
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