Teaching Web Activities
Topic: Construction
Theme: Systems
Art
Button Construction on paper plates
Box Lid Printing Rolled Paper Construction*
Take a building texture walk and make a rubbing of different building materials
Games and Puzzles
Box Nesting*
Tool Match to its Silhouette
Geoboard with pattern cards
Key to Lock Match
Math
Graph buildings for food, living, working, and playing
Estimate how many fasteners are in the jar
Tally number of houses with bricks, wood, concrete blocks, or aluminum siding
Create patterns with different tools
Dramatic Play
Create a construction site
Hard hats
Sawhorses
Signs
Digging tools
Cardboard boxes
Architectural plans
Pencils and paper
Measuring tools
Tool apron
Yellow barrier tape
Repair Shop
Tools
Old broken toys or appliances
Tool belt
Work table or bench
Storefront signs
Work order forms
Cash register
Play money
Telephone
Play credit cards and checkbooks
Receipts
Blank house shaped books
Stories and tapes on the topic Books on the topic*
Flannelboard story pieces of "The House that Jack Built" or The Three Little Pigs
Music
Learn the songs:
Johnny Works with One Hammer Three Little Pigs operetta by Sharron Lucky (DLM) Three Little Pigs Blues by Greg and Steve (Youngheart Records) Wheels on the Bus Pop Goes the Weasel I've Been Working on the Railroad Stack Up the Blocks by Sharon MacDonald (Grasshopper Press) (see Interactive Charts for words to song) I'm Gonna Build a Mountain Little Tree House by Sharon MacDonald (Grasshopper Press)*
Write a new Three Little Pigs with different animals
Write a script for Changes, Changes by Pat Hutchins
Tell how you would Build a Mountain.
Woodworking
Tools: hammer, nails, C-clamps, screwdriver, and hand-cranked drill
Materials: sandpaper, wood scraps, wood glue, and assessors like colored wire, bottle caps, paper letter, and brads
Sand and Water Table
Pour, scoop, and measure sawdust Sieving Sand*
Fill the table with wooden dowels and wood turns for stirring, filling, moving, and scooping
