SECTION 1: NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE PAST (1000 - 100 years ago)
WEEK 1: Transportation by Water
Activity 1: Autobiography of your regional river GO
Activity 2: Sharing our waterways GO
WEEKS 2-3: Neighborhood of the Past (1000 - 100 years): Simple Machines
Activities 1-3: What are simple machines? How did they extend the power of human settlers?
Introduction GO
Levers GO
Wheels GO
Pulleys and Gears GO
SECTION II. NEIGHBORHOOD OF TODAY
WEEK 4
How do materials move into and around your neighborhood today?
Activity 1: Tracing materials in and around the neighborhood or school. GO
Activity 2: Understanding Your Transportation Footprint. GO
WEEK 5
How do ideas move your neighborhood?
Activity 1: How do ideas come into your neighborhood? Where are the bottlenecks? Communication Tag, and Error Detection GO
Activity 2: Sharing Databases: Bridges GO
WEEK 6 Neighborhood
of the Future (100 years from now)
How and why will the future of transportation of materials and ideas 100 years be different from the past?
Activity 1: The impact of population GO
Activity 2: Developing transportation in the Neighborhood of the Future: the example of bicycles GO
WEEK 7: Extensions
WEEK 8: Mapping Your Neighborhood
Covered Land GO
Lay out the roads and bike paths in your Neighborhood of the Present. CS
Measuring distances/Calculating efficiencies
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