The Mini Page — 2007 Activities
TRAVELING BY TRAIN
Issue 31
July 28-Aug. 3
This week's standards:
- Students understand science and technology.
- Students understand the abilities of technological design. (Science:
Science and Technology).
Activities:
1. Design a "game car" for a train that travels long distances. Draw the inside of the car and show the different kinds of activities you would include in the car. Label each of the fun activities.
2. Look at the weather map in your newspaper. Draw a star where your city is on the map.
Now find three major cities you would like to visit anywhere in the country.
Draw a railroad line from your city to each destination. Which direction will you travel to reach each city?
What other cities will you travel through to get to your destinations?
3. Pretend you are taking a train trip from one end of your state to the other. What tourist or historical sites will you travel near on your trip? Research three sites. Now write a journal telling about your "trip" and describing the sights and sounds that you saw on the way.
4. How are trains important for (a) growers, (b) department and grocery stores, (c) factories and
(d) tourists?
5. Use resource books and the Internet to learn more about the Transcontinental Railway. Use these questions to guide your research: What type of terrain did each of the competing railroads have to cross? Who were the workers on the railroads? What were the most dangerous jobs the workers had to do to complete the railroad? Write a paragraph discussing your findings.
Standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
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