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Sustainability Lesson Clearinghouse
Intro to Transportation & the Environment
Lesson Description:
This lesson provides 2 basic activities for students to better understanding the different types of transportation and to then track their own uses.
Objectives:
The students will:
• Collect and record transportation data from daily experience.
• Analyze and compare personal transportation habits to those of the class.
• Classify components of a technological system in this case a transportation system.
• Compare environmental costs and benefits of various forms of transportation.
This lesson provides 2 basic activities for students to better understanding the different types of transportation and to then track their own uses.
Objectives:
The students will:
• Collect and record transportation data from daily experience.
• Analyze and compare personal transportation habits to those of the class.
• Classify components of a technological system in this case a transportation system.
• Compare environmental costs and benefits of various forms of transportation.
Lesson Type:
- Discussion
- Other
Sustainability Topic:
- Climate Change
- Other
GEF Program Category:
- I Ride Green
Time Needed:
1-2 classes
1-2 classes
Standards Addressed:
Technology: Understand a technological system.
Geography: Recognize consequences of technological advances on the environment.
Mathematics: Collect data; construct, read charts, practical application of percentages.
Language Arts: Group discussion, research.
History: Recognize the importance of individual choices and actions.
Technology: Understand a technological system.
Geography: Recognize consequences of technological advances on the environment.
Mathematics: Collect data; construct, read charts, practical application of percentages.
Language Arts: Group discussion, research.
History: Recognize the importance of individual choices and actions.
Submitted By:
GEF on behalf of Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
GEF on behalf of Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
School or Group:
Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
Contact Email:
service@greeneducationfoundation.org
service@greeneducationfoundation.org
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