Title/Topic:
Introduction to “Community Helpers and
Transportation” Unit
Grade Level:
Kindergarten
NC Standard Course
of Study Goals and Objectives: This is an
introductory lesson that will introduce the following goals and
objectives.
Social Studies Competency Goal 7:
The learner will recognize how technology is
used at home, school,
and the community.
Objective
7.01 Identify different types of media
and forms of transportation.
Computer/ Technology Skills Competency Goal 1: The
learner will understand important
issues of a
technology-based society and will
exhibit ethical behavior in the
use of computer and
other technologies.
Objective
1.01 Identify the computer as a machine
that helps people work and
play.
Computer/ Technology Skills Competency Goal 2: The
learner will demonstrate knowledge
and skills in
the use of computer and
other
technologies.
Objective
2.01 Use manipulatives and graphing
software to organize data as
a class.
Interdisciplinary
Connections:
This lesson incorporates goals and objectives from Social
Studies and Computer/Technology Skills in the Kindergarten curriculum.
Key Questions:
- Can the students identify different ways that people travel?
- Do the students participate and understand what data our graph
displays?
Materials/Resources/Technology:
One Computer
One Scanner
One Television
Video Clip
Overhead Projector and Pens
Overhead Transparencies
Pictures of Various Modes of Transportation
Paper and Crayons (for each student)
This is the way we go to school: A book about children
around the world by E. Baer
Procedures:
- The lesson will begin with my
presentation of “All Aboard” video clip (2 minute introduction for unit)
- I will then read This is the way
we go to school: A book about children
around the world by E. Baer.
- I will ask the students how they
traveled to school that morning. We will
make a bar graph using the students as manipulatives and copy it to an
overhead transparency. This information
will be used to place into a bar graph in an Excel Worksheet.
- We will discuss other ways that people
may travel to school everyday. I will have photographs to display
different things that they may come up with. The
book we read can also be a resource for photographs.
We will talk about what modes of transportation are faster,
slower, bigger, smaller, can carry more or less people, and so on.
- After we have discussed different
modes of transportation from pictures on the overhead, the students
will draw how they came to school and how a friend in our class got to
school that is different from the way they came.
- We will be making a portfolio of the
kids work. These illustrations should be
scanned into the computer and hung up around the classroom.
Differentiation/Modifications:
Students will be listening, doing, and observing during this
lesson. The variation in the lesson will
help auditory and visual learners.
Assistance to individual students will be provided when and
where
needed.
Assessment:
Assessment will be informal and gained through their
responses to questions asked of the class.
Sources:
- North Carolina
Standard Course of Study (2004)
[Page Author: Kellie Conner]
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