1. Theme/Title: “Transportation: Then and Now”
The students will learn about the transportation in Winona County back in the 1850s and compare it to the transportation used today.

2. Materials/resources needed:
1. Pictures of transportation used in the 1850’s
2. Long paper roll
3. Markers

3. Goal(s) for today’s lesson:
The students will be able to compare the transportation used in the 1850’s with the transportation used today. They will be able to make a pictorial timeline of the growth of transportation from the 1850s to present.

4. Objectives for today’s lesson:
Students will be able to compare ways of transportation from the 1850s to the present. They will be able to state the different modes of transportation from the 1850s to now and notice the improvements.

5. Procedures
a. introductory experiences
When the students are in their seats, we will discuss as a class how each of them got to school today. The teacher will describe how he or she got to school, and then we will go around the classroom and each student will say how they got to school that morning. (10 minutes)

b. developmental experiences:

1. Talk about the methods of transportation back in the 1850s. Review the Bunnell family from the previous day. Ask students how they thought that people got around back then. Have a class discussion about the different methods of transportation here in Winona. (10 minutes)
2. Show the pictures from the Historical Society of the different wagons. Also show pictures of canoes and floats used down the river back then. Have a discussion about them. (10 minutes)
3. Bring out the large sheet of paper and post it on the front board. Have a student come and draw the first wagon by the date 1850s. Go down the timeline to the present drawing pictures of different modes of transportation used by the residence of Winona. (10 minutes)

c. culminating experiences
Go over our timeline that the class created. Look at how the modes of transformation have changed throughout the years. Talk about the things that are similar and the things that are different in ways of transportation. (5 minutes)

6. Assessments used during lesson
Listen to the student’s answers as they plot the timeline of transportation through Winona.
I will make sure all of the student’s questions are answered as we go through this lesson.