Kindergarten- Vocabulary Lesson

Grade: Kindergarten
Name of Lesson: "How We Travel- Air, Land, and Water"
Type of Lesson: Vocabulary Lesson

Objectives/Outcomes
Students will identify three modes of transportation.
Students will contrast and compare two types of transportation.
Students will describe how forms of transportation differ around the world.
Students will ask questions and engage in grand conversations.

Materials Needed for Lesson:
Literature
"This Is the Way We Go to School" by Edith Baer
Display various other books about transportation for students to read.
URLs
http://www.first-school.com
http://www.coloring.ws
www.camping-canada.com
http://www.camping-canada.com
www.kidprintables.com
http://www.kidprintables.com
www.everythingpreschool.com
http://www.everythingpreschool.com

Describe Instructional Delivery/Procedure
Prior Knowledge and Introduction: (10 minutes)
Relate to Prior Knowledge. (What did we learn last week about land transportation?)
Tell students that today we will discuss water travel.
Find out what students know about travel on water.
"Who has ever been on a boat?"
"What kind of a boat was it?"
"Where did you go on the boat?"
If you have never taken a ride in a boat. How many of you have ever been swimming? If so, do you know how to float?
What did you use to float in the water? (float, raft, self)
Show students bowl of water and explain how a sailboat is carried by wind by blowing on a toy boat in the bowl of water. (I used a small wooden canoe and let the students blow on it)
Introduce water vehicle flashcards and models.
Story Reading/Discussion: (10 minutes)
Tell students that in some countries children ride in a boat to school because they are unable to get to school by land travel.
Read "This Is the Way We Go to School" by Edith Baer.
After reading the story discuss the various ways that students get to school around the world.
Walk back through the story and find the children who used water transportation to get to school.
Card Game (10 Minutes)
Have students in a group of 4 to 5 students in a center.
Sort modes of transportation according to whether they travel on land or water.
Sort modes of transportation by function.
Ask the following questions.
"Which vehicles are used to drive us to school?"
"What are the characteristics of a school bus?"
"What mode of transportation would a sailboat fit into?"
"When you grow up which mode of transportation will you most likely use to get to work, and why would you use that form of transportation?"
"Which mode of transportation would be the fastest?"
"Compare the differences between a canoe and a sailboat?"
"Which vehicle could I use to get across the lake?"
"What special parts does a vehicle need if it travels on land?"
"If you created your own vehicle, what would you want your vehicle to be able to do?"
Group Discussion: (10 Minutes)
Compare/Contrast air, land, and water travel.
Encourage students to list types of land vehicles and how they are powered, what they look like, ect.. (cars, trucks, ambulance, taxi, bicycle, skateboard, school bus, ect)
Encourage students to list the types of air vehicles. Discuss the size, power, and shape. (airplane, helicopter, hot air balloon, jet, rocket ship, ect)
Encourage students to list types of water vehicles, how they are powered, size, shape ect. (sail boat, tug boat, motor boat, canoe, ship…)
Closure:
Let's review what we have learned.
Review activities and ask them what they enjoyed about them.
Preview next lesson- Next week we will focus on air transportation