Trains: Steam Engines Notebooking Pages
Use these Trains: Steam Engines notebooking pages along with the vetted resources and activities list when you are studying history, transportation, or physics.
These Trains, Steam Engines notebooking pages are perfect for many different types of writing assignments in various subjects, like history, physics, and language arts.
With these Trains, Steam Engines notebooking pages, your kids can write about the characteristics of the steam engine locomotive in general. Perhaps they’d like to record how they work, or the history of these very heavy locomotive engines and how they changed society.
Or they can write a story about steam trains.
Let them use the vetted resources below to learn more about the topic of steam engine trains.
These Steam Engine Trains printables even work well for handwriting practice. For example, your students could copy the poem, The Railway Train, by Emily Dickinson.
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For your convenience, I’ve included a list of resources for your students to research and create a mini study of steam engine run trains. In general, the resources listed below are in order from youngest to oldest learners.
Steam Engines Resources for Homeschoolers
Library List of Steam Engine Trains Books
Steam, Smoke, and Steel: Back in Time with Trains by Patrick O’Brien Also on Open Library
Big Boy 4014 and the Steam Team: The World’s Largest Steam Engine Roars Back to Life! by Marsha Diane Arnold also on Hoopla
Locomotive by Brian Floca A Caldecott Medal Winner in 2014 Also on Hoopla as on audiobook and short movie
How Trains Work (How Things Work) by Clive Gifford
Train: The Definitive Visual History by DK Or The Big Book of Trains by DK (for younger kids)
How Steam Locomotives Work by Brian Solomon
The Trains We Rode by Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg (or any book by these authors)
Locomotive Building: Construction of a Steam Engine for Railway Use by Ralph E. Flanders Also on Open Library
Steam Engine Train Facts Videos
What a steam locomotive looks and sounds like
What the first steam locomotive looked like
Trains with Oliver and Lucas
Steam Locomotives – The History and Models (1 hour documentary from The Great British Channel)
The Golden Age of Steam Full Episode from the History Channel
Trains: Steam Engines Notebooking Pages Printables
The Trains: Steam Engines notebooking pages come in 3 levels to fit all of your students’ needs. There’s a large elementary lined one, a smaller elementary lined one, and a regular lined one.
Here’s a list of the topics covered with these printables:
- Trains, Steam Engines
- How it Works: Steam Locomotives
- History of Trains
- Steam Powered Trains of Today
These notebooking pages come in color graphics, with full-color photos, and in black/white. If you are trying to save on printer ink costs, just use the grayscale option on your printer when printing. There are a total of 12 printable notebooking pages in this packet.
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