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Transportation Curriculum Connections

Schools play a major role in the education of tomorrow's consumers and decision makers. Involving students in analyzing transportation options at school prepares them to take an active role in making good choices for both society and the environment.

Organization	Resource, Activity, or Lesson Plan	* Grade Level
Assessing Travel
Cool School Challenge	Class Transportation Survey - Provides a class transportation survey where students learn to measure, analyze, and interpret transportation data	Secondary
Green Schools Ireland	Draw Yourself Walking to School (PDF, 35 Kb) - Provides a drawing activity for students to draw themselves walking to school	Elementary
Green Schools Ireland	Hazard Identification (PDF, 33 Kb) - Makes students aware of what hazards are and how to identify them on their way to school	Elementary, Middle, and Secondary
Green Schools Ireland	Future Planning (PDF, 25 Kb) - Provides an exercise for students to consider how transport and the need to travel affects planning	Secondary
Green Schools Ireland	Mapping Exercise (PDF, 29 Kb) - Provides an exercise for students to map existing routes to school and identify any safer routes for walking and cycling	Elementary, Middle, Secondary
Green Schools Ireland	Local Traffic Survey (PDF, 22 Kb) - Allows investigation of density of traffic around the school and the effects of traffic on the school's environment	Elementary, Middle, Secondary
Air Quality
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency	Clean School Bus USA - Educators may request a Teachers Guide online - Provides an overview of EPA's Clean School Bus USA program with background and campaign information	Elementary, Middle, Secondary
The Green Team	Idling Reduction Pledge (PDF, 627 Kb) - Provides clean air activities and an idling reduction pledge	Elementary, Middle, Secondary
Green Schools Ireland	Air Quality Survey (PDF, 23 Kb) - Provides an activity to investigate air quality in and around the school grounds	Secondary
Biodiesel
National Wildlife Federation / Climate Classroom	You, Me and Bio-D (scroll to page 56) (PDF, 2.56 Mb) - Provides an action project for teens to start a campaign to get municipal/school buses to switch to biodiesel fuels	Middle, Secondary
Biofuels Program, Central Carolina Community College	Introduction to Biofuels: Biodiesel and Straight Vegetable Oil (PDF, 625 Kb) - Provides an introduction to biofuels and how vegetable oil can be used as an alternative to diesel fuel	Secondary
Renewable Fuels Association	Alternative Fuels Biodiesel (PDF, 5.89 Mb) - Provides information and activities to teach students about biodiesel fuels	Middle, Secondary