1st Grade March Career Lessons

Week 1: Transportation, Distribution, Logistics Lesson

Goal • Students will identify Transportation, Distribution & Logistics as a Georgia career cluster Objectives • define a career cluster as a grouping of occupations with common skills and knowledge; identify sample careers aligned with the Transportation, Distribution & Logistics career cluster.

Activity

Say: “Today we will be learning about careers that have to do with transportation, which is getting

things from one place to another and delivered on time.” Ask: “Why do you think it is important thatwe have occupations that help move goods and services from one place to another and that the goods or services be on time?” Allow students time to answer. Ensure they understand the importance to their family, their community and the world.

Say: “The activity today will focus on the career cluster, Transportation, Distribution & Logistics.”Write: Transportation, Distribution & Logistics on the board or flip chart. Say: “Remember a career cluster will allow us to organize occupations into large groups that are similar.”

Ask: “How do you get to school?” Possible answers: on the bus, in a car, in a van, in a truck, etc. Allow

students to discuss the question. Write all of their appropriate answers on the board. Say: “Those areforms of transportation for getting children from home to school and back, safely and on time. There are

many other ways people have to get from one place to another. Ask: “What are some other wayspeople or products get from place to place?” Possible answers: bus, car, train, plane, boat, etc. Allow

students to discuss the question and the write some of their answers on the board. Ask: “What types oftransportation are used to move goods, like food or lumber, from one place to the other?” Allow time for students to respond. Possible answer might include: trucks, wagons, trains, airplanes, ships, tractors.

Help students sort the types of transportation on the list by LAND, WATER and AIR. See the attached Transportation, Distribution & Logistics occupational frame for a list of occupations aligned with this cluster. Say: “I want you to think about the occupations you might see with each type of transportation.” Help them to visualize that type of transportation and the associated occupations. Write LAND, WATER, AIR on the board. List the occupations associated with each type of transportation from their thoughts. For example, bus driver/LAND.

Activity: Attachments pg. 4 & 5 of Ga. DOE Grade 1 Career Development Activity

Be Creative…you can place these on your Elmo and allow the students to identify which type of transportation is being shown. You can also make copies and allow the students to create a T-chart of Land/Water/Air transportation images. Another option is to copy the handouts and allow the students to label the pictures as Land/Water/Air. The possibilities are endless, all we ask is that you make it fun.

Week 2: Transportation, Distribution, Logistics Lesson Con’t

Note: The Artifact will be collected during this lesson for this Career cluster.

Materials needed: Class set of “Transportation, Distribution & Logistics” worksheet, crayons

Activity: Review the types of Transportation Land/Water/Air. Allow the students to share the various daily items that are transported, food for cafeteria, students via bus, cars, vans, etc.

*Artifact* Please remember to have students put their name and date

Distribute Attachment pg. 26 “Transportation, Distribution, & Logistics”

Students can color this page, or feel free to design/create another form of transportation on the back.

Week 3: Transportation, Distribution, Logistics Lesson Con’t

Materials needed: Class set of the following attachments..“Transport Wordsearch” and “Transport Bingo”. You will also need some cut out squares for the Bingo game.

Activity:

Do a quick review of the different types of transportation before distributing the first activity.

Hint: You may want to explain what a Lorry is to them, as it will appear in their Wordsearch.

Distribute “Transport Wordsearch” worksheet. Please allot a minimum of 5-10 minutes forthis activity.

Distribute “Transport Bingo”.. you can pick a student to call out the squares, whoever wins thegame, allow that student to be the next caller.

Week 4: Law, Public Safety & Transportation, Distribution

Materials: Computer, Projector and access to Youtube.com

Activity: A comprehensive lesson on Law, Public Safety & Corrections and Transportation/ Distribution/ Logistics

Video: Youtube.com “Sergeant Cooper the Police Car – Real City Heroes (RCH) – Videos for Children” Time: 12 minutes 42 seconds.

Discussion: after video, discuss how the video showed a bus, which transports people, the tow truck transports vehicles, etc. Extend the discussion for students to share what they learned about how Police Officers keep our city and streets safe from those breaking the laws.

Journal/ Summary: Students are to journal a summary of the video and things they learned about both Transportation and Law.

Week 5: Fire Safety

Materials: Class set of “Fire Readiness & Safety” Worksheets & “Fire Department Word Search”.

Activity: Teachers will read and facilitate a discussion on the “Fire Readiness & Safety” worksheet and review the questions with the students but allow the students to verbally provide the answers before writing them down.

Option: Inclusion teachers, if you are in need of a Differentiation activity, you can allow those students to complete the “Fire Department Word Search” in place of answering the questions at the end of the “Fire Readiness and Safety” activity. However; all students will need to participate in the reading and discussion prior to the written portion.

Journal/ Summary: The worksheets can be utilized as a summary of this lesson.