INQUIRY 4

Transportation Time

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DESCRIPTION:
Students study various forms of transportation indicative of different time periods.

An inquiry problem is presented in which students have to find solutions to transcontinental travel in certain time periods.

The inquiry activity culminates with the construction of a student-illustrated timeline showing past, present, and future forms of transportation.

OBJECTIVES:
1.  To use transportation as a means to examine ideas of past, present, and future.

2.  To gain an understanding of technological change in transportation over time.

RELATED EALRS:
Communication: 1, 3
Writing: 1.1, 2.2, 2.3
History: 1, 2, 3
Geography: 2, 3
Science: 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 3.2
Math: 1.2, 5

Author: SL
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