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Spotting Trains & Planes
Students engage in an international pastime that entails reading and interpreting train, subway, or airline schedules from a selected city. They create and problem solve design of a math game using timetables. Students use their math...
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All Aboard! Railroad Transportation
Students create a picture of a train. In this train lesson, students read Freight Trainand discuss the trains that they see. Students discuss what it would feel like to be a train and play a game where they pretend to be a train. They...
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All Aboard the Safety Train
Students listen to a story about safety around trains and participate in story retelling students complete an art project.
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Train
In this printing practice and coloring worksheet, students color the train caboose and trace and print the word "Train" Students complete 2 activities.
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All aboard the Grade 2 express!
In this name tags worksheet, 2nd graders cut out name tags that have a train on them and says "All aboard the Grade 2 express!" Students cut out 3 name tags.
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Train ABCs
In this dot-to-dot worksheet, students practice alphabetical order as they connect the dots with the letter a to z. The finished picture is a train.
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Help the Train Get to the Station
In this train maze activity, students help a train get to the station by tracing a path in an easy maze. Students may color the train picture.
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Train Engine Writing Paper
In this writing worksheet, students use a train engine shaped paper with 3 primary lines for any word study, writing activity or shape book.
Other
Pennsylvania Railroad: History of the Johnstown Flood
An illustrated history of the famous flood that was written in 1889. Report starts from the breaking of the South Fork Dam and continues to relief efforts.
Canada Science and Technology Museum
Canada Science and Technology Museum: Background Information for Trains
Get answers to frequently asked questions about trains. For example, what is a steam train and what parts of a train make it move?
Canada Science and Technology Museum
Canada Science and Technology Museum: Locomotives
Get a glimpse into the history of Canada's railways and explore how the locomotive influenced transportation in the country. See some of the important advancements in locomotive technology in Canada from 1900 to 1960.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Geostories: Public Transportation
Use this interactive GeoStory to explore the major public transportation systems around the world.
Other
Transports: Le Voyage en Train
At this website you will find practical information on traveling by train in France.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: The Yawn
This poem shares the observations of a person on a train who is awe-struck by a young lady and her yawn.
Scholastic
Scholastic History Mystery: Transportation 2: The Subway
Students try to guess the mystery subject Carlotta Facts, the History Mystery Museum's professor, is studying. They read the clues, do some online and offline research, and then attempt to identify the game's mystery item, the Subway.
Other
Stadtplan: Frankfurt Am Main
Stadtplan.net provides a zoomable map of Frankfurt, as well as maps of the state of Hessen (Hesse) and Deutschland. In addition to the local map of streets, there is other city info, including links to events such as rock and other...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive by Victor Appleton
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, an adventure multi-chapter book from 1922, written by the ghost writer Victor Appleton. In this book's quest, the main...
Read Works
Read Works: "The Railway Train"
[Free Registration/Login Required] A poem by Emily Dickinson about a railroad train. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Other
Vocabulary Training Exercises
This site contains multiple vocabulary tests of 100 words each that drill word sets from animals to words of the soul. It also contains grammar quizzes and a personalized test generator.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Photography and Railroads
From the 1850s, photography and the railroad each offered new experiences to people who had never before traveled great distances. Photographs were used to allay fears of potential travelers.
California Digital Library
Calisphere: Railroads
A broad selection of images featuring railroads can be found on this site by Calisphere. By clicking on individual images you'll find high quality photographs and image information.
Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
Cprr: Car Builder's Dictionary: Pullman Palace Sleeping Car
Shows detailed floor plans of Pullman Palace Sleeping Car and Drawing Room/Parlor car.
Other
Book Page: The Boxcar Children Roll On
Site gives a quick review of the series and a short biography of Gertrude Chandler.
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Steam Engine
An extraordinarily rich collection of photos, stereographs, engravings, maps, and documents. Many 19th century accounts of building and traveling on the railroad, plus travel guides and government documents.