Teaching Ideas 4 STL

Transportation Technologies

APPROACH of Audience's ROLE :

option 1- teaching them what to teach and idea generating activities

option 2- teaching them as the student

Transportations: Synthesis

- They need to know what the STL is

- They need to understand what it implies

Lesson Layout

Assessment? HOW?

PREASSESSMENT

True/False Questions on board

-purpose= to assess previous understanding of transportation technologies

LECTURE

1. Combination of people and vehicles working together (this joint effort: society as a working machine: video of city activities, delivery system?- sped up?)
2. Transportation vehicles made up of subsystems functioning together (i.e. diagram of car- by me, simple and easy, like Tyler's helicopter)
3. Governmental regulations influence design and operation of transportation systems (i.e. Europe/U.S., cost, gas mileage, durability, engine performance, emissions)
4. Multiple processes are necessary for entire transportation system to operate together(see # 1, the transportation process of it)
5. Effects of transportation on other technologies such as manufacturing, construction, communication, health and safety, and agriculture (look up trucker strikes, increased gas prices, import/export tax, etc.)
6. Intermodalism. interconnected systems moving people and goods around easily from one mode to another (story about dream house on island and needing a boat to get to shore and then car)
7. Mobilization leads to mobile people constantly on the move (history: impact of car, when first came about)
8. Intelligent/nonintelligent transportation systems. NonIntelligent: attract with innovative design and incorporation of environment (capitalizing on natural settings) and provide convenience to individuals and groups (i.e. walkways, and bike paths) Intelligent: multi-subsystems that work together to foresee and prevent problems (i.e. smart highways with electronic message boards).

ASSESSMENT

-Give problem/Give requirements/Give goal

-Have map (each group has a different country as their starting point; different product- huge or small; different budget; different terrain)

- divide into groups for projects

(i.e. design the perimeters of a transportation vehicle (choosing also whether it would be using air, water, or land to move on) to solve a specific problem keeping in mind governmental restrictions and societal restrictions.

*Bring groups together; they present choices; we combine

and have a working system that functions as a whole.