Train Wheel Lesson

Whole Class Aggregation

Who

Childs Name

Observations of
Train Wheel Made
by Children

Child #1

Worked very hard decorating, did a good

job taping. Had trouble putting the two
sides of the wheels together with bendy
straws.

Child #2

Not interested in vocalizing

observations, pre interested in rolling the
wheels and observing what happens

Child #3

Wheels re round, a small piece of black

tape was missing, needs more tape for
edge of wheel to be complete, wheels
roll, wheels have to be on inside of track
to roll
Noticed the end of the track was where
the wheel stops, very independent in
thinking on how to create her own wheel

Child #4

Child #5

Noticed that paper and straws where

used to make wheel and hold it together,
pushed the wheel out of the middle of
the track

Child #6

Recognized how wheels go on the track,

able to make a smooth ring around
outside of her wheel to make wheel roll,
Measured the tape on the outside. Used
trial and error for the poles holding the
wheels together. Spent a lot of time
decorating and making it her own.

Child #7

Had a lot of trouble putting the wheels

together. She really enjoyed decorating
it.

Train Wheel Lesson

Whole Class Aggregation

Who

Child #8

Not interested in creating wheel after

initially playing with the model wheel

Child #9

Interested in examining model wheel,

ran out of time to create her own wheel

Child #10

Had trouble taping around the wheels.

He needed a lot of assistance with this.
However, he did a good job measuring
how much tape he would need to cover
the edges of the wheels
Tracks look like a ladder, tried to connect
wheels together with straw realized they
were not long enough so added more
straws and connected them

Child #11