Teaching Pennsylvania History: Part 2: The History of Transportation

Different things students can do:

• Look for the words in the below outline on the Internet.
• Visit transportation exhibits at local museums. (Harrisburg State Museum has a great exhibit.)
• Make a scrapbook of pictures from Internet.
• Art and writing projects involving Pennsylvania transportation.

1.   Draw different forms of historic transportation

2. Make up a story in which you must travel via a certain historical form of transportation.

3. Write a report comparing two historic forms of transportation. read more

• Make a timeline about progression of transportation through the years.
• Locate the waterways and places mentioned on a Pennsylvania map.
• Read my book, The Flying Banana and Other Pennsylvania Transportation

Following is an outline you can use for your study:

Water Travel

Waterways  

Delaware River

Susquehanna River

Ohio/Monongahela/Allegheny River                

Canal boat
by Tad Sieber

            Lake Erie

            Canals

Boats/Ships   

 Canoe

             Keel boat

             Canal boat

regular

sectional

 Steam boat

John Fitch

Orukter Amphibolus

Clermont

Walk-in-the-Water

Cordorus

            Ship 

George Washington 
by Tad Sieber

Land Travel

Routes

                 Indian Paths

                 Stagecoach Routes

                 Railways

                 Pennsylvania Turnpike

Vehicles

                Stage coach

                Horse and wagon

Conestoga wagon

                Railroad

George Washington

                 Automobile and truck

Six-Wheeled Pullman

                Aircraft

Piper Cub

HRP-1 Helicopter