This thematic unit will focus on transportation -- why and when it's necessary, existing and potential methods, systems involved, and the reasons for transportation decisions in different types/purposes of transport. The "big picture" for this unit is really tied to an understanding of systems. Transportation is a system involving movement of people and goods, working within other important systems of economy and habitation.
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
- What types of things need to be transported? Why?
- How do the transportation needs of today compare to the past? Are these needs being met in the same or different ways?
- Will transportation of the future be different? Why?
- What scientific principles affect transportation the most?
- What math operations and concepts are important in transportation?
- How does geography affect transportation?
- Which is more important: transportation machines or transportation systems?
- Transportation Today (Exploring Modern Transportation) [PDF]
- Where are we? (The Geography of Transportation) [PDF]
- Where have we been? (Transportation History) [PDF]
- The Art & Science of Getting There (Science, PE, and the Arts) [PDF]
- Where are we going? (Reflecting on the Past, Predicting the Future) [PDF]
