Project Description
Grade range: 10. However, this project connects to various curriculum outcomes and is appropriate for use in Grades 9 through 12.
Time considerations: 6 hours in-class time over 3 lessons + extra time for Community Transportation Proposals outside of class
Materials provided: Digital/printable resources, Emissions Calculator
Materials needed: Computers/tablets with internet access
- Explore their community’s transportation situation and identify needs and opportunities.
- Calculate greenhouse gas emissions from various transportation methods.
- Discover emerging technologies and their potential impacts on the environment.
- Develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills while creating a future-focused innovative local transportation plan.
What will students experience?
- Explore their community’s transportation situation and identify needs and opportunities.
- Calculate greenhouse gas emissions from various transportation methods.
- Discover emerging technologies and their potential impacts on the environment.
- Develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills while creating a future-focused innovative local transportation plan.
- Curriculum-aligned climate unit for educators across the country.
- Free to participate.
- Three ready-made lessons taking approximately six hours of in-class time to complete.
- Authentic and easy-to-implement climate science experience.
Why Participate?
- Curriculum-aligned climate unit for educators across the country.
- Free to participate.
- Three ready-made lessons taking approximately six hours of in-class time to complete.
- Authentic and easy-to-implement climate science experience.
- Be able to explain how an internal combustion engine works and how it produces greenhouse gases.
- Consider the transportation needs and opportunities in their community.
- Learn to use an emissions calculator to collect and analyze transportation data for their community.
- Analyze the costs and benefits of emerging transportation technologies.
- Learn about different transportation technologies and consider how they might be implemented in their community.
- Create a community transportation proposal using emerging technologies, based on local needs and opportunities.
- Support their decisions based on tailpipe and lifecycle carbon emissions of different vehicle and fuel types.
Learning Goals
- Be able to explain how an internal combustion engine works and how it produces greenhouse gases.
- Consider the transportation needs and opportunities in their community.
- Learn to use an emissions calculator to collect and analyze transportation data for their community.
- Analyze the costs and benefits of emerging transportation technologies.
- Learn about different transportation technologies and consider how they might be implemented in their community.
- Create a community transportation proposal using emerging technologies, based on local needs and opportunities.
- Support their decisions based on tailpipe and lifecycle carbon emissions of different vehicle and fuel types.
Resources
- Explore their community’s transportation situation and identify needs and opportunities.
- Calculate greenhouse gas emissions from various transportation methods.
- Discover emerging technologies and their potential impacts on the environment.
- Develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills while creating a future-focused innovative local transportation plan.
What will students experience?
- Explore their community’s transportation situation and identify needs and opportunities.
- Calculate greenhouse gas emissions from various transportation methods.
- Discover emerging technologies and their potential impacts on the environment.
- Develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills while creating a future-focused innovative local transportation plan.
- Curriculum-aligned climate unit for educators across the country.
- Free to participate.
- Three ready-made lessons taking approximately six hours of in-class time to complete.
- Authentic and easy-to-implement climate science experience.
Why Participate?
- Curriculum-aligned climate unit for educators across the country.
- Free to participate.
- Three ready-made lessons taking approximately six hours of in-class time to complete.
- Authentic and easy-to-implement climate science experience.
- Be able to explain how an internal combustion engine works and how it produces greenhouse gases.
- Consider the transportation needs and opportunities in their community.
- Learn to use an emissions calculator to collect and analyze transportation data for their community.
- Analyze the costs and benefits of emerging transportation technologies.
- Learn about different transportation technologies and consider how they might be implemented in their community.
- Create a community transportation proposal using emerging technologies, based on local needs and opportunities.
- Support their decisions based on tailpipe and lifecycle carbon emissions of different vehicle and fuel types.
Learning Goals
- Be able to explain how an internal combustion engine works and how it produces greenhouse gases.
- Consider the transportation needs and opportunities in their community.
- Learn to use an emissions calculator to collect and analyze transportation data for their community.
- Analyze the costs and benefits of emerging transportation technologies.
- Learn about different transportation technologies and consider how they might be implemented in their community.
- Create a community transportation proposal using emerging technologies, based on local needs and opportunities.
- Support their decisions based on tailpipe and lifecycle carbon emissions of different vehicle and fuel types.
Resources
- Students will learn how greenhouse gases are produced from a vehicle’s combustion engine and consider the existing transportation needs and opportunities of their community.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
Lesson 1 – Travel and Greenhouse Gases
- Students will learn how greenhouse gases are produced from a vehicle’s combustion engine and consider the existing transportation needs and opportunities of their community.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
- Students will learn about different types of emerging transportation technology and how they contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
Lesson 2 – Emerging Transportation Technologies
- Students will learn about different types of emerging transportation technology and how they contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
- Students will compare and analyze tailpipe and lifecycle carbon emissions for emerging technologies to create a community transportation proposal.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
Lesson 3 – The Future Of Transportation
- Students will compare and analyze tailpipe and lifecycle carbon emissions for emerging technologies to create a community transportation proposal.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
- Students will learn how greenhouse gases are produced from a vehicle’s combustion engine and consider the existing transportation needs and opportunities of their community.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
Lesson 1 – Travel and Greenhouse Gases
- Students will learn how greenhouse gases are produced from a vehicle’s combustion engine and consider the existing transportation needs and opportunities of their community.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
- Students will learn about different types of emerging transportation technology and how they contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
Lesson 2 – Emerging Transportation Technologies
- Students will learn about different types of emerging transportation technology and how they contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
- Students will compare and analyze tailpipe and lifecycle carbon emissions for emerging technologies to create a community transportation proposal.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
Lesson 3 – The Future Of Transportation
- Students will compare and analyze tailpipe and lifecycle carbon emissions for emerging technologies to create a community transportation proposal.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
Lesson Outlines
- Students will learn how greenhouse gases are produced from a vehicle’s combustion engine and consider the existing transportation needs and opportunities of their community.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
Lesson 1 – Travel and Greenhouse Gases
- Students will learn how greenhouse gases are produced from a vehicle’s combustion engine and consider the existing transportation needs and opportunities of their community.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
- Students will learn about different types of emerging transportation technology and how they contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
Lesson 2 – Emerging Transportation Technologies
- Students will learn about different types of emerging transportation technology and how they contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
- Students will compare and analyze tailpipe and lifecycle carbon emissions for emerging technologies to create a community transportation proposal.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
Lesson 3 – The Future Of Transportation
- Students will compare and analyze tailpipe and lifecycle carbon emissions for emerging technologies to create a community transportation proposal.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
- Students will learn how greenhouse gases are produced from a vehicle’s combustion engine and consider the existing transportation needs and opportunities of their community.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
Lesson 1 – Travel and Greenhouse Gases
- Students will learn how greenhouse gases are produced from a vehicle’s combustion engine and consider the existing transportation needs and opportunities of their community.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
- Students will learn about different types of emerging transportation technology and how they contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
Lesson 2 – Emerging Transportation Technologies
- Students will learn about different types of emerging transportation technology and how they contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
- Students will compare and analyze tailpipe and lifecycle carbon emissions for emerging technologies to create a community transportation proposal.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
Lesson 3 – The Future Of Transportation
- Students will compare and analyze tailpipe and lifecycle carbon emissions for emerging technologies to create a community transportation proposal.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
- Students will learn how greenhouse gases are produced from a vehicle’s combustion engine and consider the existing transportation needs and opportunities of their community.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
Lesson 1 – Travel and Greenhouse Gases
- Students will learn how greenhouse gases are produced from a vehicle’s combustion engine and consider the existing transportation needs and opportunities of their community.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
- Students will learn about different types of emerging transportation technology and how they contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
Lesson 2 – Emerging Transportation Technologies
- Students will learn about different types of emerging transportation technology and how they contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
- Students will compare and analyze tailpipe and lifecycle carbon emissions for emerging technologies to create a community transportation proposal.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
Lesson 3 – The Future Of Transportation
- Students will compare and analyze tailpipe and lifecycle carbon emissions for emerging technologies to create a community transportation proposal.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
- Students will learn how greenhouse gases are produced from a vehicle’s combustion engine and consider the existing transportation needs and opportunities of their community.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
Lesson 1 – Travel and Greenhouse Gases
- Students will learn how greenhouse gases are produced from a vehicle’s combustion engine and consider the existing transportation needs and opportunities of their community.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
- Students will learn about different types of emerging transportation technology and how they contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
Lesson 2 – Emerging Transportation Technologies
- Students will learn about different types of emerging transportation technology and how they contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
- Students will compare and analyze tailpipe and lifecycle carbon emissions for emerging technologies to create a community transportation proposal.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
Lesson 3 – The Future Of Transportation
- Students will compare and analyze tailpipe and lifecycle carbon emissions for emerging technologies to create a community transportation proposal.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
Lesson Outlines
- Students will learn how greenhouse gases are produced from a vehicle’s combustion engine and consider the existing transportation needs and opportunities of their community.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
Lesson 1 – Travel and Greenhouse Gases
- Students will learn how greenhouse gases are produced from a vehicle’s combustion engine and consider the existing transportation needs and opportunities of their community.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
- Students will learn about different types of emerging transportation technology and how they contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
Lesson 2 – Emerging Transportation Technologies
- Students will learn about different types of emerging transportation technology and how they contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
- Students will compare and analyze tailpipe and lifecycle carbon emissions for emerging technologies to create a community transportation proposal.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
Lesson 3 – The Future Of Transportation
- Students will compare and analyze tailpipe and lifecycle carbon emissions for emerging technologies to create a community transportation proposal.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
- Students will learn how greenhouse gases are produced from a vehicle’s combustion engine and consider the existing transportation needs and opportunities of their community.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
Lesson 1 – Travel and Greenhouse Gases
- Students will learn how greenhouse gases are produced from a vehicle’s combustion engine and consider the existing transportation needs and opportunities of their community.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
- Students will learn about different types of emerging transportation technology and how they contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
Lesson 2 – Emerging Transportation Technologies
- Students will learn about different types of emerging transportation technology and how they contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
- Students will compare and analyze tailpipe and lifecycle carbon emissions for emerging technologies to create a community transportation proposal.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
Lesson 3 – The Future Of Transportation
- Students will compare and analyze tailpipe and lifecycle carbon emissions for emerging technologies to create a community transportation proposal.
Timing: 1 to 2 hours
