May 15, 2007
Groups of three build a kind of transportation, a place to live and a place to work.
All the projects will be moved to the center, then every one will build the train track around the city.
Have the students think of occupations that have to do with transportation
or how people will get back and forth from home to job.
Linda Hamilton spoke with the 2nd and 3rd grader's at St. Joe
about how transportation shapes our Cities.
Even getting to school entails more transportation than just the cars to drive them.
The food that they eat to move and walk to the school door is taken from the farms
to the places where they are processed and packed and on to more transportation to the stores.
The students were assigned by their teachers to groups of three.
All three work on all three parts but one was responsible for seeing that some kind of transportation was built,
one that there was a place to live, and the other that there was a place to work.
We spent some time discussing jobs from the Transportation poster and how we all need transportation.
Then the students built the city parts.
It was all arranged in the middle of the carpeted area and then the class set to work on the train track.
When it was complete the classes from the entire school came to see the trains run and see the wonderful city.
The students explained their building and how work, home, and transportation connected.
Afterwards that the materials are placed back in the correct container.
