This video explores ideas on how to make cities more walkable and the benefits this can bring in terms of traffic, emissions, and social and emotional health.
Teaching Tips
Positives
This entertaining and informative video contains interesting facts and statistics related to the advantages of having walkable cities.
In this video, the speaker discusses interesting ideas including the disadvantages of cars in cities, the advantages of a pedestrian-friendly city, and ways to make it happen.
Additional Prerequisites
Students should be familiar with car emissions and the alternative modes of transportation.
Differentiation
Support group: The teacher could check that students have understood the ideas discussed in the video by asking them to summarize them in a graphic organizer.
Extension Group: The teacher could ask students to do a project where they design a model for a sustainable, walkable city.
Students could plan, organize, and implement a campaign called "Walk More & Drive Less."
Students could organize a Walk and Roll Day at their school. (And encourage everyone to walk every single day!)
This 4-minute video looks at strategies for making cities more walkable to address issues related to traffic and climate change, among others. This is a short, clear resource and is recommended for teaching.
Standards
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
MS-ESS3-3 Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Standards
Dimension 2: Economics
D2.Eco.1.6-8 Explain how economic decisions affect the well-being of individuals, businesses, and society.
Dimension 2: Geography
D2.Geo.8.6-8 Analyze how relationships between humans and environments extend or contract spatial patterns of settlement and movement.
D2.Geo.7.3-5 Explain how cultural and environmental characteristics affect the distribution and movement of people, goods, and ideas.
D2.Geo.6.9-12 Evaluate the impact of human settlement activities on the environmental and cultural characteristics of specific places and regions.
