K-1.2 Links To Important Information For Teachers

Vocabulary

• communication
• runners
• smoke signals
• talking drums
• Pony Express
• telegraph
• telephone
• e-mail
• fax
• satellite systems
• transportation
• water, land, and air transportation
• horse back
• bicycle
• railroad
• ships
• ferries
• automobiles
• airplanes
• helicopter

Pictures

• talking drums
• Smoke Signals
• first telegraph
• Oldest style of telephone
• Dial telephone
• Cellular Telephone
• Email
• Satellite System
• Ferry
• Wright Brother's "First In Flight"
• horse and wagon
• Old car
• New automobile
• First Bicycle
• Bicycle of today
• a Caravel ship of long ago
• ship of today
• Old Helicopter
• Helicopter of today
• First train
• Trains of Today

Suggestions

• Kindergarten Dictionary for Vocabulary
• Using the pictures shown above show the students the difference between communication and transportation of yesterday and today.
• Make sure that the students can name each picture and tell its use as communication or transportation.
• Show the students the picture and make sure they can say yesterday or today.

Streamline SC

• Away We Go: All About Transportation.

Books

• Ways we communicate: by Ellen Catala
• On the move: [written and edited by Sarah Fecher and Deborah Kespert ; story by Belinda Webster ; main illustrations, Gaëtan Evrard ; computer illustrations, Jon Stuart].
• On the go: by Lisa Trumbauer ; consulting editor, Gail Saunders-Smith.