Francis P. Lynch
Patterns of your own travel
Objective:
To let students work out for themselves the travel patterns which will show them how far their personal shopping, jobs, and recreational travels carry them.
Materials needed:
Blank outline maps of the town boundaries for the region in which you live: i.e. For Granby there should be an outline map showing town boundaries for the greater Hartford region from Plainville to Middletown to Vernon and up to Springfield. No route markings are needed.
Strategies:
Working singly, have each student show on his own map the flooring: Put in a letter for the town where:
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a. parents work (x)
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b. where the individual works (o)
c. where this individual or the parents go for:
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movies (m)
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concerts (c)
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medical attention (d)
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grocery shopping (g)
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clothes shopping (t)
gift shopping (g)
Questions:
eating out (f) Yes, McDonald, Burger King, etc. How many towns did this involve for you? for the class?
Is there a pattern to where you went? Do you tend to work and shop in one town, or one mall?
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How did you get there?
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Why did you not use mass transportation?
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Do any of your parents, or you, use mass transportation to get to work? Car pools? Van pools? Bicycles? Motorcycles?
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Therefore: