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Teach Transportation in Your Classroom:

How Walkable is Your Neighborhood?

Originally created for our annual transportation summer camp for Oregon high schoolers, we're offering this set of four modules for any educator to teach in their classroom. No transportation background required!

These modules will provide students with creative ways of observing transportation systems in their neighborhoods through collecting pedestrian data, critically evaluating accessibility, and learning about livable communities. They will gain a deeper understanding of how people move through their community, and whether the transportation in their community is designed with the needs of all people in mind. Students will take this critical lens into their final projects where they will propose a vision for increasing transportation safety, accessibility, and livability in their community.

The four consecutive modules in this toolkit are meant to be facilitated in sequence with 3-5 days in between, as they build upon each other. The modules can be adapted as stand alone lessons if needed. Educator instructions are provided, as well as printable student instructions:

  • Module 1: Observations by Foot
  • Module 2: Collecting the Data
  • Module 3: Crossing at the Intersection
  • Module 4: Final Project - Bringing it All Together
  • Bonus Optional Activities: Transit Budgeting; Transportation Bingo

Upon submission you will receive a link to download the PDF files. We request your contact information so we may track downloads for our grant reporting activities. We may contact you once to request your feedback on the effectiveness of this curriculum to improve our offerings. By providing your contact information you are not added to any contact lists unless indicated otherwise below.

This curriculum is provided by the Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University.

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