Transportation and Careers
On the Go by Ann Morris This book has GREAT photos of many types of transportation from around the world.
I start this unit by reading the book "On the Go." Then I ask the students to help me list as many types of tranportation as they can.
I introduce the vocabulary: driver, fuel, passenger, and vehicle.
After a few days talking about transpotation, I introduce careers that relate to transportation, and then to other careers.
I invite several guests in to speak to the class. (police officer, flight attendant, bus coordinator, etc.)
Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw Nancy Shaw mini-unit
Web mapping
* types of trucks: fire, tanker, dump, tow, cement, garbage, delivery
* types of cars: station wagon, compact, taxi, police, convertible
* types of transportation careers: taxi driver, bus driver, pilot, gas station attendant, truck driver, car salesman, astronaut, ambulance driver
* types of health care careers: doctor, nurse, dentist, hygienist, physician's assistant, paramedic
* types of community helpers: police officer, fire fighter, mail carrier, judge
* types of production careers: farmer, factory worker, cok, chef, baker, miner
* types of sports careers: announcer, umpire, coach, athlete
* types of construction careers: carpenter, plumber, cabinetmaker, architect
* types of service workers: teacher, librarian, waitress/waiter, banker, cashier, custodian, secretart, auto mechanic, butcher, clerk, sanitation engineer
* types of careers in communications: computer operator, television reporter, telephone operator, newspaper reporter, actor
(* other types of careers: homemaker, unemployed, seasonal, part-time, self-employed, shift, cottage, migrant)
Predictable sentences:
I would travel in a ___________.
I would go to ______________.
I would like to be a ___________.
Journal writing topics:
* Why do we need transportation?
* Why do we need different types of transportation?
* Why would you like to go?
Center activities:
* Paint your own license plates.
* Make a transportation collage.
* Classify picture by types of transportation (land, air, water).
* Water table float or sink activities.
Concepts to learn:
* Job, career, and occupation all mean about the same thing.
* People need to graduate before they start a career.
* Workers usually provide a service or make a product.
* People usually work because they need/want to make money.
The Wheels on the Bus by Maryann Kovalski
This is a frame story about a grandmother and her grandchildren singing while waiting on the city bus.
Mr. Gumpy's Outing by John Burningham
Mr. Gumpy and his friends go on an outing in his boat.
Word Families:
-oat: boat, coat, goat, bloat, float, throat
-ip: ship, hip, lip, rip, tip, sip, dip, chip, clip, drip, flip, skip, snip, trip, whip
-eep: jeep, beep, deep, keep, peep, weep, creep, sheep, sleep steep
-et: jet, bet, wet, met, set, let
-ar: car bar, far, jar, tar, scar, star
