Transportation Resources
CAMPUS RESOURCES
PHASE 1-2: BUY-IN, ASSESSMENT, AND PLANNING
GOALS, MANDATES, AND STRATEGIES
Transportation Goals, Mandates, and Strategies: This resource page makes the case for why sustainable transportation matters, and lays out relevant goals, mandates, and strategies for school communities to consider.
ASSESSMENT AND AUDIT RESOURCES
District and Site Transportation Sustainability Audit: This tool provides a comprehensive audit for transportation issues across a campus, curriculum, and community.
Green Ribbon (ED-GRS & CA-GRS): P1 - E1D: Transportation
CA Green Business Award: Pollution Section
TOOLKITS FOR PLANNING
Planning Template for Environmental and Climate Action Plan (ECAP): Transportation Only
Environmental and Climate Action Plan Strategies Menu (use bookmarks to navigate to transportation strategies)
PHASE 2-3: IMPLEMENTATION, CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT, AND RECOGNITION
TRACKING AND MONITORING
Campus Sustainability Dashboard and Examples: This document provides an overview to what a Campus Sustainability Dashboard is, and why it is an important tool for advancing environmental and climate action in schools.
SUCCESS AND RECOGNITION
AWARDS PROGRAM EXAMPLES
Green Ribbon (ED-GRS & CA-GRS): P1 - E1D: Transportation
CA Green Business Award: Pollution Section
CURRICULUM RESOURCES
The San Mateo County Office of Education's (SMCOE) Environmental Literacy and Sustainability Initiative (ELSI) developed a number of supplemental curriculum resources:
Transportation WebQuests: 6-8 Transportation WebQuest; 9-12 Transportation WebQuest
Curriculum: K-12 Transportation Solutionary PBL Unit
Spare the Air: A variety of lesson plan resources for K-8 on: Bike and Pedestrian Safety, Climate Change and Transportation, and Outside the Bay Area.
Bay Area Air Quality Management District: Lesson plans for reducing impacts from transportation for 4th and 5th graders. Curriculum guide has additional lessons on other topics of sustainability.
California Academy of Sciences:
6th-10th: Places, Trains, or Bicycles: Being a Low Impact Traveler
6th-10th: Building Better Buses: Transportation Design Challenges
6th-8th: Buses and Biofuels Video based lesson plans on carbon emissions and biofuels
5th-8th: What’s in a Label? Exploring Fuel Economy and the Environment for middle school
9th-12: What’s in a Label? Exploring Fuel Economy and the Environment Teaches students to understand fuel economy and environment labels
Eco Rise: EcoRise develops the next generation of creative problem solvers by enlivening conventional classrooms with academically-aligned K-12 curriculum that introduce students to environmental literacy, social innovation and hands-on design skills. Green professionals serve as guest speakers and project mentors to help students solve real-world sustainability challenges concerning energy, water, waste, transportation, air quality, food and public spaces.
Learning Lab: Search “Transportation” for interactive and engaging lesson plans by subscription.
K: Bodies in Motion Get kids moving with series of pantomimes teaching methods of transportation
1st-2nd: Let’s Ride Together lessons teach about traffic and how it forms.
3rd-4th Grade: Transportation Trends is a 3 lesson unit on how people get around through history.
3rd-5th Grade: Fueling our Future combines energy and fuel in a six student-centered lesson unit.
9th-10th: Transforming Transportation
9th-12th: Fueling our Future