Sustainable transportation



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  1. Video

  1. Discussion after video

The questions that can be used to further discuss on the topic of recycling are the following:

  • What did you learn on this video that you want to share with someone else?
  • Who will you share it with?
  • What is sustainable transportation about?
  • Are you familiar with it?
  • Why is it important?
  • How do you feel about sustainable transportation?
  • Are you used in using sustainable means of transportation?
  • Is there anything you would like to learn more about this topic?
  • Sustainable Transportation Activities

Teachers can choose 1 among the 2 suggested activities, according to their students’ profiles. 

  1. TRANSPORT JOURNEY TRUE AND FALSE AND JOURNEY MAP
  • Target group (age group): 10-14
  • Materials needed: Link to true false game/ or printed list with questions
  • Aim -learning goal of the activity: Students are expected to reflect upon their daily use of different transports and to map the environmental impact of their journeys
  • Detailed description of the activity: The activity refers to a true-false game. Students are going to play a true or false game with statements about sustainable transport (to be created in ly).

Steps:

To reflect and map your transport journey

  1. Start the activity with the question: “What is transport?”

Ask students to identify and discuss different types of transport.

  1. Play a true a false game with statements about sustainable transport Link to T/F on
  2. Present how different transport options affect other people and the environment.
  3. What’s the solution? Ask students to think about different solutions.
  4. Talk about the positive solutions and benefits in different areas of Europe.
  5. How can you help? Have students talk in small groups about how they can make their journeys more sustainable and what they need to make these changes.
  6. Map your journey – Model mapping a journey. You may wish to use a satellite image, road map or encourage the students to draw their own maps of the area. If students are finding it difficult to use sustainable transport, they can map what they would like their route to be.
  • Additional activity ideas: Students could travel their route before mapping it. This could be done as a whole group activity within a session or set as homework.
  • Questions for reflection:
  • What are your thoughts after completing this activity?
  • What did you like most on this activity?
  • How can you incorporate what you learned from the activity in your everyday life?
  • What did you learn that you want to share with someone else? Whom will you share it with?
  • Personal plan: Write down what kind of activities you are going to implement in the next 7 days referring to sustainable transportation. Do you think that you are going to face any difficulties? If yes, what kind and how are you going to address them?
  1. TRANSPORT DIARY
  • Target group (age group): 10-14
  • Materials needed: The transport diary sheet, The journey map
  • Aim -learning goal of the activity: Students are expected to make a diary of the transports used individually or as a family during the last 5 days and calculate the environmental impact.
  • Detailed description of the activity:

Students are going to prepare a diary of their transports. Invite them to fill in their according to the given questions:

Imagine during just one day, all the transportation that you, your family members, your teachers and others in your community or city choose to get from one place to another. Today you might have seen other students being driven to school by a parent or riding a bus or metro. Some students might have walked or biked to school. Students and families who walked or biked are using their own “energy” to transport them.

  • How did you get to school today? What are some transportation choices you have made this last week?
    • Directions: Record on the chart some ways you got from one place to another during the past five days.
    • In the first column note the starting point for each journey.
    • In the second column write the destination.
    • In the third column record the transportation method you used for each of the five trips.
    • Write in the last column the fuel that was used for these trips.
  • Discuss and compare in small groups the environmental impacts of the transportation method you used.
  • Identify the most green-friendly transportation methods.
  • Additional activity ideas: Optional extension: using a carbon-footprint calculator – use the transport diary to calculate a transport footprint using online calculators (https://calculator.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx?tab=6)

  • Questions for reflection:
  • What are your thoughts after completing this activity?
  • What did you like most on this activity?
  • How can you incorporate what you learned from the activity in your everyday life?
  • What did you learn that you want to share with someone else? Whom will you share it with?
  • Personal plan: Write down what kind of activities you are going to implement in the next 7 days referring to sustainable transportation. Do you think that you are going to face any difficulties? If yes, what kind and how are you going to address them?