Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. In this unit, students explore wheels and how they work, observe and experiment with wheels, learn about wheeled vehicles, and recognize words associated with wheeled vehicles. Specific activities include creating an experience chart relating to wheels, exploring force and movement, and building a bus from a refrigerator box. Time for reading is allotted every day. Many of the activities include creative writing, for example, writing descriptive wheel poems.
Students gain a community perspective by studying traffic patterns around the neighborhood.
The teacher's guide supplies a bibliography of appropriate nonfiction and fiction books, worksheets, activity directions, and suggestions on assessment opportunities. Preparation information,a materials list, a time frame, learning goals, and a procedure are provided for each activity. The unit is designed to be completed in six weeks. A calendar of activities is included.