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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Bike-Sharing Catches On

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
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...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Way to Work

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students make oral and/or written presentations describing results of interviews with professionals and their transit experiences traveling to the interviews.
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: City and Suburb: Chicago and Park Forest, Illinois 1950s

For Students 9th - 10th
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...