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Highway Link Design Unit PlanHighway Link Design Unit Plan
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Bowland
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6th - 9th
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Highway Link Design

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Discover a renewed appreciation for the highway transportation department. with a lesson that has scholars design a highway route that meets certain conditions, including traffic flow, curves, speed limits, financial costs, and environmental impacts.

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Concepts

length, curves, cost-benefit analysis, data, data analysis, unit conversions, ratios, proportions, distance rate time problems

Additional Tags

math

Instructional Ideas

  • Invite a DOT worker or highway planner to give a presentation

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  • Task gives alignments for U.K. curriculum; U.S. teachers will need to consider local and state standards
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  • Gives suggested pacing guide for each lesson
  • Includes optional homework assignment for each lesson

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