​Sustainable Transportation Resources

Sustainable Transportation Case Studies by GreenLearning. http://www.greenlearning.ca/eneraction/teacher-materials. These case studies are intended to provide easy access to the exciting and revolutionary changes that are happening in transportation all over the world. Communities, cities, schools, and businesses are rethinking and redesigning the way they transport people and goods. These approaches are helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, and traffic congestion. They are also strengthening communities through more social interaction and improving individual health through more active living.

Getting Around Clean and Green by the Northeastern Sustainable Energy Association. Grades 6-9. http://www.nesea.org/k-12/uploads/textWidget/1109.00020/documents/Getting_Around_Clean__Green.pdf. This interdisciplinary science/social studies curriculum allows students to explore transportation and environmental issues in their own lives. Activities cover: transportation systems, health impacts, environmental and transportation histories, carpooling, and mass transit. A final assessment project includes a student-researched, designed and written "green" travel guide to fun local destinations.

Keystone Science School: Sustainable Automobiles by the Keystone Center and GM. Grades 5-9. http://education.gm.com/corporate/responsibility/education/teachers/keystone_curriculum.html#dl. Created by the Keystone Center with support from GM, Sustainable Automobiles allows students to investigate automobile options to determine the most sustainable transportation for their futures. Through economic, equity, and environmental arenas, students will investigate fuel sources, car design, and community habits. This curriculum module is an interdisciplinary unit encompassing science, math, technology, language arts, and social science modules.

Sustainable Transportation Options for Protecting the Climate: A guide for local governments. http://www.iclei.org/documents/Global/Progams/CCP/Sust_Trans_Options.pdf. International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives. Urban areas today are faced with a chronic demand for cleaner air, faster commutes, and endless parking. At the same time urban populations are exploding and the climate enveloping the world’s cities is deteriorating. As a result, local governments face increasingly difficult decisions about transportation issues and land use policies in their communities. This easy to follow document is broken into smaller sections that discuss the various aspects of sustainable transportation at the community level.

1000 Friends of Wisconsin-Transportation. http://www.1kfriends.org/what-we-do/transportation/. 1000 Friends of Wisconsin advocates and promotes uses of land, water and air that shape healthy communities where people want to live, work, and play. Their work focuses on helping communities make the connection between our everyday land use and transportation decisions and our state’s economic, environmental and cultural health. In the transportation section of the web site you will find a wide range of information about transportation issues in Wisconsin and how you can have an impact on how transportation decisions are made.

Streets Education. http://streetseducation.org/. Streets Education helps classroom teachers and schools weave pertinent ideas about urban livability and advocacy into their curriculum. By infusing the curricula with ideas and tools for evaluating environments, teachers help students learn how to connect their school day activities to exciting issues, including traffic calming, environmental improvements, alternative transportation, and safe routes to school.