America in Motion
Introduction:
Students will explore the impact of advances in transportation and agriculture on modern society.
Things that go: How do transportation and agriculture affect my life?
Standards and Relavance:
B.12.8 Recall, select, and explain the significance of important people, their work, and their ideas in the areas of political and intellectual leadership, inventions, discoveries, and the arts, within each major era of Wisconsin, United States, and world history
B.12.9 Select significant changes caused by technology, industrialization, urbanization, and population growth, and analyze the effects of these changes in the United States and the world
B.12.17 Identify historical and current instances when national interests and global interests have seemed to be opposed and analyze the issues involved
D.12.3 Analyze and evaluate the role of Wisconsin and the United States in the world economy
What's the story under the
engine??
Is American self-identity tied to car culture and driving?
Intro to: Engines of Change by Paul Ingrassia
Cruisng toward oblivion:
America's lost love
Is car culture dead in the United States?
Driving in the United States is a big deal..
Currently, the U.S. has 4.12 million center-line miles of roads, providing 8.66 million lane-miles for highway travel, according to the Federal Highway Administration.
If you wrapped all of the roads in United States around the world, you would travel around Earth 168 times.