Empowering Global Citizens

Overview

The children learn about different forms of transportation around the world
and learn to identify how they vary by purpose and context. They are also
introduced to the concept of symbolism by learning about different types of
road signs and how they are similar and different across cultures.

Activity K.3.1

— Students are asked to share how they get to school (e.g., bus, car, subway,
walking, biking, etc.). For homework, they ask their parents how they
get to work, and then they report back to the class what they learned.

— The students read books about transportation (see the resources
listed below) and learn to sing songs about movement (e.g., “The ’
Wheels on the Bus”).

~ They read books such as Transportation in Many Cultures, by
Martha EH. Rustad, and Ann Morris’s On the Go from the Around
the World series to make the global connection that, for example,
“boats” can look different in different parts of the world but can
have similar functions.

— Various activities can be incorporated into the lessons to facilitate
learning and community.

0 For example, each child draws a car of a train, and then they
link the train cars together to make a model train as a Class.

0 Each child selects a favorite mode of transportation. The chil—
dren who share the same favorite form of transportation can
work together to make a collage about that particular form of
transportation by finding and cutting out as many different
pictures as they can (so those who choose cars could cut out
pictures of sports cars, vans, electric cars, race cars, limousines,
etc.). They can then share it with the rest of the class.

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