Driving Questions
Unit Driving Question: How can we enhance the safety, accessibility, and sustainability of our transit systems?
- Module 1: How do various transportation modes serve communities?
- Module 2: How can we make our transit systems more sustainable?
- Module 3: How can we make our transit systems safer and more accessible?
- Module 4: How can we solve transit problems in our community?
Materials List
Handouts
- Download Unit from REVIT for handouts, slides, and answer keys (free registration required)
Class Supplies
- 20 index cards
- 20 pom-poms
- 20 popsicle sticks
- 20 pennies
- 20 small rocks
- 20 cotton balls
- Scissors or paper cutter
- (Optional) Laminating materials
- 4 Pieces of chart paper, white boards, or legal paper
- Local maps
Group Supplies (3 per group)
- Chart paper, white board, or legal paper
Individual Supplies
- Ruler
- Calculator
Important Links
- Unit Summary
- Unit available through REVIT
- YouTube Video: An Animated History of Transportation
- Can Everyday Traffic Affect Our Mental Health?
- Comparing the Carbon Footprint of Transportation Options
- YouTube Video: Busses and Biofuels: Sustainable Transportation
- YouTube Video: Cities of the Future | The World in 2050
- Can trees reduce pollution at schools next to freeways? A Fresno campus tries plantings
- Sustainable Construction for the Future of Roads
- 5 Ways to Make Roads More Sustainable
- YouTube Video: The Future of Cities Starts with Transportation Equity
- YouTube Video: The Path Forward: The Future of Accessible Transportation
- Gridlock Buster Game
- YouTube Video: The Simpsons get stuck on a roundabout and nearly kill the Queen of England
- YouTube Video: European Vacation – Roundabout
- YouTube Video: Why The U.S. Hates Roundabouts
- YouTube Video: The Weird Reason UPS Trucks Never Make Left Turns
- Complete Streets
- Streetmix
- Street Transformations Before and After
- YouTube Video: Lincoln man goes viral with city council speach
- YouTube Video: Getting your voice heard at city council
- YouTube Video: How to speak effectively at Council meetings
Next Generation Science Standards
Next Generation Science Standards
| HS-ETS1 | Engineering Design |
| HS-ETS1-1 | Analyze a major global challenge to specify qualitative and quantitative criteria and constraints for solutions that account for societal needs and wants. |
| HS-ETS1-2 | Design a solution to a complex real-world problem by breaking it down into smaller, more manageable problems that can be solved through engineering. |
| HS-ETS1-3 | Evaluate a solution to a complex real-world problem based on prioritized criteria and trade-offs that account for a range of constraints, including cost, safety, reliability, and aesthetics as well as possible social, cultural, and environmental impacts. |
| HS- ETS1-4 | Use a computer simulation to model the impact of proposed solutions to a complex real- world problem with numerous criteria and constraints on interactions within and between systems relevant to the problem. |