Dwire+April+Social+Science

Part 1:

Last week we talked about what school was like a long time ago.

This is a school house. It's much different than the schools we have today.



How is a old schoolhouse different from our schools today? (much smaller, all different ages in a classroom, technology was different, etc.)

Speaking of school, did you ride the bus to school today?A bus is one way to move from home to school.

This week we are going to talk about how people and things move from one place to another. Before we do that, let's go over some key vocabulary words for this week.

Transportation is the way people and things move from place to place.

An invention is a new tool or way of doing something. An invention is a new tool or way of doing something.

Long ago, people walked or rode on animals to get around.

Transportation was very slow then. Transportation is the way we move people and things.

Again, an invention is a new tool or way of doing something.



People made inventions because they wanted a better transportation.

Trains, cars, ad airplanes were all inventions at one time.



Some inventions make moving people and things faster and easier.

Why do you think people make inventions? (to make work or travel easier.)

Steamboats traveled on rivers from city to city.

Steam engines were the start of railroads.

Cars made travel easier for many people.

Now it is possible to travel into space.

Transportation keeps things changing. Trains, planes, and high-speed boats help people travel anywhere on earth. It takes less time to move people and things than ever before.

How does transportation inventions change the way people live? (Transportation inventions allow people to travel anywhere on earth.)

Part 2: For the past few weeks we've been discussing what life was like a long time ago.

We discussed what the early school houses were like.

The classes were much smaller and there were students of all different ages.

We also talked about how people moved around and how it changed over the years.

What is different about how we used to travel a long time ago? Do you think it took longer to get from place to place?

Last week we also talked about the word invention. Can anyone tell me what this word means? ( An invention is a new tool or way of doing something.)

Today we are going to discuss how we share news and ideas. Raise your hand if you have used or talked on a telephone before?

Using a telephone is one way to share news. Can you think of others?

The way people share news and ideas is called communication. When people communicate, they share news and ideas. Two ways to communicate are talking and writing. These people are communicating with sign language.



Long, long ago people made cave pictures to communicate their ideas.

Later they invented alphabets.

Inventions made communication fast and easier.

Raise your hand if you can tell me a way that we communicate? There are two. (talking and writing)

People used to write books by hand.

An invention called the printing press helped make books more quickly.



After the printing press was invented, more people had books.

Do you think the printing press helped people communicate? Why? (More people could share ideas through the books. More books could be made more quickly.)



How do you communicate? (Talking, phone, letter, email.)

(complete communication worksheet)