Gina Caroddo

10/13/14
TRANSPORTATION
Lesson: Map the classroom
Students create a cardboard vehicle together.
Common Core Standards
Domain 4: Communication, Language, and Literacy
Key Ideas and Details
With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about details in a
text.
Speaking and Listening
With guidance and support, participates in collaborative conversations with
diverse partners about Pre-kindergarten topics and texts with peers and
adjust in small and large groups.
Demonstrates a growing expressive vocabulary
Background Knowledge
Correctly identifies meanings of words in read alouds, in conversation, and in
the descriptions of everyday items in the world around them.
Uses new vocabulary correctly.
Domain 5: Cognition and knowledge of the world-Science
Uses senses to gather, explore, and interpret information.
Literacy
PK.SL.1 with Guidance and support, participate in collaborative
conversations with diverse partners about Pre-kindergarten topics and
texts with peers and adjust in small and large groups.
Social-emotional development:
PK.SED.4. Develops positive relationships with peers.
PK.SED.5: Demonstrate pro-social problem solving skills in social
interactions.
Mathematics
PK.V.6. Demonstrates a growing expressive vocabulary

Objective
Students will explore maps and how to make them.
Time needed
2 sessions of 20-25 minutes each during small group time
Set- up & materials
Big paper, drawing materials, masking tape,
Learning Experience

My class this year has been fascinated with maps. They love to look at the maps we have in the block center, and
they often draw maps in the art center. Treasure maps, maps of their town, maps to show their bus route, maps from
their house to their friends house. One day for a small group activity, we made maps of our classroom as a
cooperative group activity.
We used 1824 inch paper. I drew the window, door, and large group carpet on the map to get them started. I pointed
out the door in our room and the door on our map, and did the same with the window and carpet. We talked about
things we needed to put on the map. Each group came up with some different ideas, for example, only one group
thought about putting the clock on the map. I also thought it was neat that one group put the Pigeon book on the
map (Dont Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, by Mo Willems a Pre-K favorite). Most of the things they put on the map
were drawn on construction paper, cut out, and glued to the map. That helped because if someone put something in
the wrong place, we could talk about it as a group, and move it where it needed to be.

Extensions/Readings

Treasure maps