Grade Range: K-4Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities, Reference MaterialsDuration: 20 MinutesDate Posted: 11/30/2010
Playing, singing, and cooking can bring learning about trains to life! Part of an OurStory module entitled All Aboard the Train!, this activity includes tips for incorporating special terms used by railroad workers into playing with trains, cooking a train café car menu, or singing train-related classics like "I've Been Workin' On the Railroad" or "Chattanooga Choo Choo." OurStory is designed to help children and adults enjoy exploring history together through the use of children's literature, everyday objects, and hands-on activities.
Multiple activities, Museum education, Thematic approach
The steam locomotive "John Bull" was built in 1831 and ran for 35 years, pulling trains of passen...
parent guide, travel, children’s literature, transportation, mechanics, family, picture book, family activity, infrastructure, 19th Century, 20th century, literacy, OurStory, twentieth century, Our Story, reading, nineteenth century, vehicle, technology, machine
Ride a train with a friendly conductor who teaches a young boy how to talk like a railroader.
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