WOMEN'S HISTORY IN TRANSPORTATION

Dear students, did you know that American women have played important roles in improving how we travel for more than 170 years?  For instance, in 1825, Rebecca Lukens took charge of the Brandywine Iron Work or in 1859, Martha J. Coston 

developed a maritime navigation system using pyrotechnics.  Ok,  let's go into the women's world and discover a little more about their contributions in transportation.  Just CLICK HERE and complete the worksheet.

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/wit/page1.htm

TRANSPORT AND AIR POLLUTION

Dear students, most of you prefer the family car as the only way to get from A to B and the plane as the only way to travel to a holiday destination. However, these types of transport can be environmentally harmful.  Have you ever thought about a viable, 'green' alternative?  And how much do you know about pollution? Ok, let's see what we can do:
1st. try to do the following POLLUTION QUIZ
2nd. watch the following video

3rd. Do this WORKSHEET to become an eco-student. You can find all kind of information on:
http://www.ecofriendlykids.co.uk/transportairpollution.html 

TRANSPORT IN UK

Dear students, now it is time to improve your vocab and knowledge about transport.  That is why you will have to investigate about transport in the United Kingdom and complete this worksheet.

Go the following webpage to get some information about transport

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/transport.html


And finally, Let's go to ride our bicycles with Queen (you can get the lyrics here) 
 

TRANSPORT EVOLUTION

Travel by car, van or taxi is by far the most common means of transport, accounting for 85 per cent of passenger mileage in Great Britain... however it was not like this long time ago. Watch this video and think about 3 reasons why transport has evolved so fast (post your answer in the comments under the video).