CERCA Slides: Transportation Systems

How did you or your students get to school today? 👟🚌🚆🚗

From complex roads and bridge systems to trains and buses, transportation is all around us, and essential to our daily lives.

How have transportation systems impacted society throughout history?

CERCA Slides by Grade

Grade 3: Mass Transit

Why might public transit be positive or negative for people in cities?

CCSS.PRACTICE.MP3
CCSS.RI.3.1
CCSS.W.3.2

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Grade 4: The Camel Caravans of the Trans-Sahara Salt Trade

How have humans used camels to support the salt trade across the Sahara Desert?

CCSS.RI.4.1
CCSS.W.4.2

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Pear Deck

Grade 5: Stagecoach Transport in Colonial America

How did stagecoaches support transportation in Colonial America?

CCSS.RI.5.1
CCSS.W.5.2

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Pear Deck

Grade 6: Roman Roads

How did a complex road system impact the Roman society?

CCSS.RI.6.1
CCSS.W.6.2

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Pear Deck

Grade 7: The Incan Road and Bridge System

How did the Inca road and bridge systems benefit human society in the pre-Columbian Americas?

CCSS.RI.7.1
CCSS.W.7.2

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Student Guide

Pear Deck

Grade 8: The First Transcontinental Railroad

How did the construction of the transcontinental railroad transform American society?

CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.W.8.2

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Student Guide

Pear Deck

Grades 9: The Interstate Highway System

How did the Interstate Highway System affect the lives of people in the United States?

CCSS.RI.9-10.1
CCSS.W.9-10.2

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Student Guide

Pear Deck

Grades 10: Japan's Shinkansen: The World's First High-Speed Rail System

How has the Shinkansen impacted transportation in Japan and around the world?

CCSS.RI.9-10.1
CCSS.W.9-10.2

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Student Guide

Pear Deck

Grades 11-12: Transportation Infrastructure in New York City

To what extent have economic, political, and social conditions both affected and been affected by the transportation infrastructure in New York City?

CCSS.RI.11-12.1
CCSS.W.11-12.2

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Transportation Systems

CERCA Slides by Grade

Grade 3: Mass Transit

Why might public transit be positive or negative for people in cities?CCSS.PRACTICE.MP3 CCSS.RI.3.1CCSS.W.3.2

Grade 4: The Camel Caravans of the Trans-Sahara Salt Trade

How have humans used camels to support the salt trade across the Sahara Desert?CCSS.RI.4.1CCSS.W.4.2

Grade 5: Stagecoach Transport in Colonial America

How did stagecoaches support transportation in Colonial America?CCSS.RI.5.1CCSS.W.5.2

Grade 6: Roman Roads

How did a complex road system impact the Roman society?CCSS.RI.6.1CCSS.W.6.2

Grade 7: The Incan Road and Bridge System

How did the Inca road and bridge systems benefit human society in the pre-Columbian Americas?CCSS.RI.7.1CCSS.W.7.2

Grade 8: The First Transcontinental Railroad

How did the construction of the transcontinental railroad transform American society?CCSS.RI.8.1CCSS.W.8.2

Grades 9: The Interstate Highway System

How did the Interstate Highway System affect the lives of people in the United States?CCSS.RI.9-10.1CCSS.W.9-10.2

Grades 10: Japan's Shinkansen: The World's First High-Speed Rail System

How has the Shinkansen impacted transportation in Japan and around the world?CCSS.RI.9-10.1CCSS.W.9-10.2

Grades 11-12: Transportation Infrastructure in New York City

To what extent have economic, political, and social conditions both affected and been affected by the transportation infrastructure in New York City?CCSS.RI.11-12.1CCSS.W.11-12.2

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Why might public transit be positive or negative for people in cities?

CCSS.PRACTICE.MP3
CCSS.RI.3.1
CCSS.W.3.2

How have humans used camels to support the salt trade across the Sahara Desert?

CCSS.RI.4.1
CCSS.W.4.2

How did stagecoaches support transportation in Colonial America?

CCSS.RI.5.1
CCSS.W.5.2

How did a complex road system impact the Roman society?

CCSS.RI.6.1
CCSS.W.6.2

How did the Inca road and bridge systems benefit human society in the pre-Columbian Americas?

CCSS.RI.7.1
CCSS.W.7.2

How did the construction of the transcontinental railroad transform American society?

CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.W.8.2

How did the Interstate Highway System affect the lives of people in the United States?

CCSS.RI.9-10.1
CCSS.W.9-10.2

How has the Shinkansen impacted transportation in Japan and around the world?

CCSS.RI.9-10.1
CCSS.W.9-10.2

To what extent have economic, political, and social conditions both affected and been affected by the transportation infrastructure in New York City?

CCSS.RI.11-12.1
CCSS.W.11-12.2

Introduce ThinkCERCA
into Your Curriculum