Nursery World - Tickets to adventure

In the second part of the holiday season project Carolyn Price looks at how modes of transport provide the means for exploration Activity 1

Activity 1

A-L Off we go

Lay out a model landscape with different modes of transport.

Planned learning intention

To build and construct with a wide range of objects, selecting appropriate resources, and adapting their work where necessary Adult:child ratio 1:3

Resources

Usborne First Words: Things that move (Usborne, 3.99) or similar, road play mat, boxes, fabric paper, Blu-tack, twigs, green tissue paper, plasticine, sandpaper, card, shallow tray, large pebbles, toy models of different sorts of transport such as a car, bus, aeroplane, ferry or train, scissors, sticky tape, wooden bricks, Lego, Duplo

Step by step

* Look at non-fiction books on transport. Encourage the children to discuss the uses of the various vehicles and to identify which forms of transport are used to go on holidays. Explain that they are going to prepare a landscape with a railway and other forms of transport.

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