Internet Links

Theme 7: Wheels Go Around

These Web sites offer resources and activities that tie to the theme Wheels Go Around.

Transportation and Public Transit: An Online Lesson
For a read-aloud or a challenge (including a fun quiz), try this lesson from TransitPeople®. It features timelines on transportation from the invention of the wheel to modern times. Each segment includes photos, drawings, and text organized in an easy-to-understand format.
http://www.transitpeople.org/lesson/trancovr.htm

The Owls Head Transportation Museum
This museum in Owls Head, Maine, offers a generous pictorial tour through its extensive collection of vintage automobiles, aircraft, motorcycles, carriages, bicycles, and engines, dating from 1804 to 1980.
http://www.ohtm.org/