Shannon Martin Transportation Unit- January 19-30

* The transportation unit will cover the three modes of transportation (land, air, water). The unit is 9 days long and includes several days spent on a
culminating activity. Many of the worksheets have been created specifically for the curriculum at Willow School and are differentiated to help all
students experience success.

Subject Areas:
Grade Level- Kindergarten
Social Studies, Reading, Math, Writing, Math, Science, Fine Arts
Essential Question: What are the modes of transportation?
What travels on land? How do these things work?
What travels in the air? How do these things work?
Unit Questions What travels on water? How do these things work?
What is an assembly line? How can we work well together?
Books Supplies Technology
Chart paper, construction paper, crayons, glue,
Materials If I Built a Car, Amazing Airplanes, scissors, pencils, journals, boxes, key template, Computer, printer, digital camera,
Boats, The Wheels on The Bus, driver’s license template, license plate template, laminator, overhead projector, TV,
Required Freight Train, Sheep in a Jeep, The paint, screwdrivers, tape, paper plates, foam VCR, Assembly Line video (Marilyn
Pigeon Loves Things that Go, Truck dots, yarn, large paper fasteners, envelopes, Worman)
yellow and red pre-cut circles, baggies, popcorn
Before Learning Activities During Learning Activities After Learning Activities
Observation Transportation Sort
Discussion Questioning Boxcar Product
Assessments
Questioning Continual Development of Ways to Go Chart Questioning- Graph
Ways to Go Chart Assembly Line Interpretations
How to work in a group chart Worksheets and Journals

All work that has differentiated components (almost all worksheets) are in Red Bold Faced Fonts
Accomodations Highly Capable Students- Write more than one sentence in their journal
 Reading Activities
Checkered Flag Adding Worksheet
If I Built a Car Discussion (Story Elements)
Jolly Phonics Sail Worksheet
Shared Reading- Driving in My Car, Car
Rhyming (Sheep in a Jeep)
Train Books (Reading Color Words)
ABC Transportation Books
Car Vocabulary
Math Activities Writing Activities
Train Counting Worksheet
Transportation Journal
How did you get to school graph
Ways to Go Chart
Shape Trains
Working in a Group Chart
Sorting
Things that Go Class Book
Train Sequencing Worksheet

Social Studies Activities Science Activities Fine Arts Activities

Discussion of the need for
Car, Car Song and Movement
transportation
Rolling Cars Paint Cars
Traffic Sign Exploration
Wind Exploration (Blowing) Box Car Assembly
Sorting Modes of Transportation
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Jobs people do (assembly line)
Creating a license plate with your family
Connections Between
Car Tally Homelink
Home & School Parent help for Boxcar Assembly Line
Shannon Martin Transportation Differentiated Lesson Plan

Lesson Title Train Counting

Subject Mathematics

Standards IL State Goal 6A (one to one correspondence)

Curricular
EDM Goal- Count objects to 20
Connection
Objective Students will count objects to 20
Pre- Report Card Assessments to determine worksheet level
Assessments Post- Train Counting Worksheet
Accommodations 3 Different Levels of Train Counting Worksheets
Unifix Cubes, worksheets, overhead projector, overhead transparency of worksheets, overhead markers,
Materials pencils, crayons
Arrange a long chain of cubes, ask student’s how they could determine how many cubes are in the
train. (Whole Class)
Ask for counting strategies. (Whole Class)
Sequence of
Demonstrate strategies. (Whole Class)
Activities Practice counting sets of cubes. (Small Group Practice)
Use the overhead to demonstrate effective strategies in completing the worksheet. (Whole Class)
Have student’s complete the worksheet. (Individual Practice/Assessment)
Many student’s had improved in their one-to-one correspondence between the report card
Reflection assessments and the activity. I had to adjust who received which worksheet level in the middle of the
activity. In the future, I will use the mid-level worksheet as a pre assessment tool.