Below are ideas for extending this topic beyond the activity & exploration you just completed.

• Lesson Assessment
• Drawing Prompt: Ask students to draw a machine doing work.
• Read-aloud: These books will get your students thinking and talking about pushes, pulls, and other "work words."
• Videos: Two videos for excavator enthusiasts.
  

These picture books are all about pushes, pulls, and other work words.

Construction by Sally Sutton. With rhythmic text, basic vocabulary, and bright pictures, this book is great to read aloud. Can your students find the work words?

And Everyone Shouted, “Pull!” A First Look at Forces and Motion by Claire Llewellyn. A farmer and his animals figure out how pushes and pulls will help them get their goods to market.

Duck in the Truck by Jez Alborough: Duck’s truck gets stuck in some muck. Can he get unstuck with the help of a frog, a sheep in a jeep, and a goat in a boat?

These excavators are just amazing to watch.

• With every scoop, the world’s biggest excavator lifts dirt weighing as much as eleven large elephants.

• Dance along to the excavator song while watching this digging machine work.