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UNESCOModule 2: Oetting to school-Teachers Notes
Getting to school - Teacher's Notes
Acknowledgement
Introduction
This module was written by Patrick Whittle. It is based on data provided by
Kabinet van de Burgemeester, Groenplein I, B-3500 Hasselt, Belgium.
Pages 2 and 3 are based on Cars and the environment, a publication of the Science
with Technology project, organised by The Association for Science Education
and the Design and Technology Association of the UK.
In this module, students are asked to:
• consider how traffic congestion affects their journey to school;
• find out about atmospheric pollution caused by car exhaust emissions;
• identify environmental problems arising from increases in traffic flow;
• study traffic management measures in Hasselt, Belgium;
• suggest possible traffic management measures for their own locality.
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• average speed;
• noise;
• atmospheric pollution.
Teaching approaches
The module can be tackled in two ways: Start either with the consideration of
students' own experience of travelling to school (page 1). Then go on to study
the problem of exhaust pollution, its effects and control (pages 2 - 4), or to a
detailed consideration of the Hasselt traffic management scheme (pages 5 - 8).
(These two sections can be used in either order.) Use the discussion of local
traffic management on page 9 to tie these different aspects together.
In areas where most students walk to school, an alternative approach would be
to consider how family members make other regular journeys, eg, to work or to
market.
Alternatively, you may wish to build the module into a more extended piece of
work involving (for example) speed measurements, traffic monitoring,
interviews with local planners and police officers, and surveys of public
attitudes.
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