Seniors+Week+03+Sep+25

=**Super Seniors and Transportation**=

**Objectives:**
 * Continue to build communication skills // (sharing from interviews and back-to-back lego build) //
 * Understand that things have changed over time // (people have changed, communication and transportation have changed) //
 * Understand importance of invention and innovation
 * Practice creating timelines, a tool to record events over time
 * Develop lego building


 * Transition (10 minutes) **

What did you learn from seniors about transportation? (Take turns talking -- but not necessarily around the circle
 * Introduction/Sharing (10 min) **

Read //Grandpa's Tractor// by Michael Garland or //The Little House// by Virginia Lee Burton (use projector for story pictures) Discussion questions about what has changed
 * Changes in Transportation (20 min) **

Explain how to build while partners sit back-to-back
 * Back-to-back lego build (20 min) - throughout house **

Work in pairs to create individual timelines for transportation. As a group, add to the "big" timeline - transportation, communication, photos from home
 * Timeline and snack (20 - 30 minutes) **

In three groups ( Assign groups - These are not yet their teams) Build something to represent communication or transportation in the past, present, or future
 * Building (30 - 40 minutes) **