Transportation and Mapping
Teacher: Jennifer Platz, George W.
Tilton Elementary School
Suggested grade/s: K-3
Illinois
Learning Standards
English Language Arts 5
Mathematics 7
Social Science 16-17
Estimated time: four weeks
Mural/s addressed
Janet L. Scott, William Penn, 1911,
Pilgrims, 1911, and Columbus, 1910, three-panel
oil on canvas, George W. Tilton Elementary School
Objectives
Students discuss various modes of transportation
and how reading maps help people travel to their destination.
They discuss how each mural focuses on historic figures and their
means of navigating. They compare and contrast those examples
with modes of transportation today and as they foresee them in
the future.
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Key terms
- mural
- map
- legend
- symbol
- transportation
- navigation
- guides
- routes
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Materials
- drawing paper
- colored pencils, markers, or crayons
- pencils and erasers
- atlas
- rulers
- road maps
- globe
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Procedures
- Have students look at the murals on the
Web or at Tilton Elementary. Ask: Describe what you see?
What is happening? What is going to happen next? How do you
know this?
- Have students discuss the idea of transportation.
Ask: How did the people in these murals reach their destinations?
By land, water, or air? How can you tell? Do people still travel
like this today?
- Have students look at examples of historic
routes to the New World.
- Ask students to follow these routes using
a globe.
- Have students create a map (using legends,
symbols, and distance charts) tracing the journey of a.) The
Pilgrims; b.) Christopher Columbus; and c.) Native-Americans
on a food-gathering journey.
- Have students create a map (using legends,
symbols, and distance charts) tracing their daily journeys.
- Have students write a journal entry of
a passenger on a voyage in the future.
Evaluation
Base students’ achievement on their maps
and journal entries.
Follow-up
Have students bind their maps together into
an atlas or have them prepare a travel journal containing entries
of past, present, and future journeys.
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