Curated OER
Bike-Sharing Catches On
Young scholars discuss how people are reducing their fuel consumption, then read a news article about a new bike-sharing program in Washington, D.C. In this current events and alternative transportation instructional activity, the...
Curated OER
The Way to Work
Students make oral and/or written presentations describing results of interviews with professionals and their transit experiences traveling to the interviews.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: City and Suburb: Chicago and Park Forest, Illinois 1950s
Exhibition highlights the differences between city and suburbia living. Visit Park Forest, Illinois, a new suburb of Chicago, where every day is moving day. A station wagon and moving boxes sit in front of a new house and the new kids on...