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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Better Traffic Flow

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars calculate the maximum number of cars passing a point in a given amount of time.  In this better traffic flow lesson, students work with an existing  Excel spreadsheet to solve the traffic flow problem.  Young scholars read...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Traffic Lights

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn about traffic lights and their importance in maintaining public safety and order. Using a Parallax Basic Stamp 2 microcontroller, students work in teams on the engineering challenge to build a traffic light with a specific...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Grading Congestion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students construct a model roadway with congestion and apply their knowledge of level of service (LOS) to assign a grade to the road conditions. The roadway is simply a track outlined with cones or ropes with a few students walking...
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Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Introduction to Transportation Engineering

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a course introducing students to the importance of highway transportation. Webpage includes forty-one lectures from a professor at the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning. Lectures vary...
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Lesson Plan
TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Stop and Go

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson addresses how traffic is managed by the use of the traffic light. Student "engineers" work in teams to design a new traffic light system using new technology to meet the needs of society today.
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Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Transportation Engineering Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a follow up to a course about transportation engineering. Webpage includes forty lectures from a professor at the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning . Lectures vary in length and cover...