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Transportation Theme Unit

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Transportation Time Line
     Transportation - Pre-made PDF for your bulletin board (5 pages)
     Customize the transportation printable and make custom print-outs

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Plays:  Reader's Theater Scripts
     Feet and Hooves and Wheels and Wings (Grades 1-3)

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Conversations (foreign languages)
French
     The breakdown - French and English
     We’re off! - French and English
     Clean Transportation - French and English
     The traffic jam - French and English
German
     First Steps – Going to Munich - German and English

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Reading Comprehensions
Vehicles
     Freddy and the Freight Train (Grades 2-3)
     Boats and Great Sea Explorers (Grades 3-4)
     Bicycles (Grades 3-4)
     Travel in Space (Grades 3-4)
     Trains (Grades 3-4)
     Travel in the Sky (Grades 3-4)
     Cars (Grades 3-4)
     Subways (Grades 3-4)
     How Does It Fly? (Grades 5-7)
     Metal Birds, Part 1 (Grades 5-7)
     Metal Birds, Part 2 (Grades 5-7)
Animals in Motion
     Animals of Unusual Locomotion (Grades 4-6)
     Animals in Motion (Grades 3-5)
Energy and Motion
     It's Dynamic! Laws of Motion and Speed (Grades 5-7)
     It's Dynamic! Force and Energy (Grades 5-7)
Automobile
     Along Came the Engine, Part 1 (Grades 5-7)
     Along Came the Engine, Part 2 (Grades 5-7)
     Driving Back Through History (Grades 5-7)
     The Piston Push (Grades 5-7)
     You Want Fuel With That? (Grades 5-7)
     Journey to the Center of the Engine (Grades 5-7)
     Mission - Automatic Transmission (Grades 5-7)
     Mission - Manual Transmission (Grades 5-7)
     Tires (Grades 5-7)
     Jet Reaction, Part 1 (Grades 5-7)
     Jet Reaction, Part 2 (Grades 5-7)
     Lubrication and Cooling (Grades 5-7)
     A Train Without a Ticket? (Grades 5-7)
     What's That Part? (Grades 5-7)
Aviation
     Air Navigation, Part 1 (Grades 5-7)
     Air Navigation, Part 2 (Grades 5-7)
     Yaw Turn! (Grades 5-7)
     Evolution of the Airplane (Grades 5-7)
     Flying Cigars (Grades 5-7)
     Fly to My House? (Grades 5-7)
Space
     The Science of "Rocket Science" (Grades 5-7)
     The Rocket Into Space: The Launch (Grades 5-7)
     Rocket to Space: The Orbit (Grades 5-7)
     The "Blast Off" Engineers (Grades 7-9)
     The Nosy Space Ship (Grades 7-9)
     Satellites (Grades 7-9)
     Space Stations (Grades 7-9)
     Shuttle to the Stars (Grades 7-9)
     Whosa NASA? (Grades 8-10)
Read and Color

Boats

The History of Airplanes

Running to Catch an Airplane

An Airplane Ride

Airplane Travel

A Hotel on Wheels

The History of the Automobile

The History of Trains

A Brief History of Transportation

Going Places (PDF file)

Conversations
     The traffic jam (French and English)
     Clean Transportation (French and English)

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Transportation Social Studies Review (multiple choice with writing questions)
     Transportation first grade social studies questions
     Transportation second grade social studies questions
     Transportation third grade social studies questions
     Transportation fourth grade social studies questions
     Transportation fifth grade social studies questions
     Transportation sixth grade social studies questions

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Book Units
    The Pushcart War (Grades 4-7)

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Quizzes
     Airplanes/Aircraft (Grades 5-7)
     Energy and Automobiles (Grades 5-7)
     Rockets (Grades 7-10)

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Transportation Analogies

Transportation Analogies

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Science Project
    Transportation Science Activity
    Explorers Science Activity

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Transportation Hidden Pictures

Hidden Pictures

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Art Projects
     Art Project: Make a model of a prairie schooner like the wagons that used to travel west to Oregon (PDF file)
     Make a ship similar to the one that Columbus sailed (PDF file)

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Writing
Transportation Draw and Write

Transportation Draw and Write

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Transportation: Dot to Dots (booklets - PDF files)
Spelling
     Spelling (challenging)
Alphabet
     Alphabet (lowercase letters)
     Alphabet (CAPITALIZED letters)
Counting
     Mixed: Each page count by a different number
     Count by 1's (easier)
     Count by 1's
     Count by 2's
     Count by 3's
     Count by 4's
     Count by 5's
     Count by 6's
     Count by 7's
     Count by 8's
     Count by 9's
     Count by 10's
     Count by 25's
     Completed drawings (no dot to dots)

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