Pre-kindergarten Lesson Plan

							                                          Unit 7: On the Move!
Book Title: Transportation Then and Now                                  Author: Robin Nelson
Common Core Correlations: RI 2, RL 7                                     Subtheme Correlation: Social Studies

 Focus: Developing and defining transportation and the many ways we move.

 Read 1 Objective: With prompting and support, students identify the main topic and retell main details by using the
 text. RI 2
 Suggested Vocabulary: transportation, ships, travel, wagons, streetcars, subways, outer space, spaceships

 Conversation Starter: “Transportation is a word we use to describe the way people move from one place to another.
 What are some ways that we can move from one place to another?” As students describe various modes of
 transportation, write their responses in list form to keep in the classroom.

 Open-Ended Question(s):                                   Possible Teacher-Scaffolding Response
 How has transportation changed from long ago?             Possible Child Response: “They got bigger.”
                                                               When transportation changed, what else changed?
                                                                  (streets/dirt/cobblestone to asphalt, transporting got
                                                                  faster).


 Turn and Talk: Turn and talk to your partner about ways you move or would like to travel.

 Follow-Up Activity: Transportation Collage
 Materials: magazines, newspaper, clip art, poster board, markers, glue
 Description: Students will create a collage in small groups that shows a specific form of transportation i.e.-cars,
 ships, airplanes, trains, etc.


 Focus: Compare and contrast transportation from then to now.

 Read 2 Objective: With and prompting and support, students will describe the relationships between illustrations
 and the story by how they have changed. RL 7
 Suggested Vocabulary: transportation, ships, travel, wagons, streetcars, subways, outer space, spaceships

 Conversation Starter: “We know that transportation has changed over time. Today we’ll be comparing and
 contrasting transportation now and long ago. Compare means to tell what is the same. Contrast means to tell what is
 different. How are wagons and cars the same? How are they different? How are streetcars and subways similar? How
 are they different?”

 Open-Ended Question(s):                                   Possible Teacher-Scaffolding Response
 “Looking at pages 16 and 17, how is the spaceship the     Possible Child Response: “They all move. Only the
 same or different as the other ways we travel? “          spaceship can go in outer space?”
                                                               Why can only the spaceship go in outer space?


 Turn and Talk: “Now that we have compared and contrasted transportation ways, turn and talk to your partner
 about what ways you move or would like to travel.”

 Follow-Up Activity: New Way to Travel
 Materials: paper, markers, crayons
 Description: Students imagine a new and different way to travel. Illustrate and write about it.
Submitted by: Therese Iwancio #217, Gayle Glick #73, Barbara Clark #206