This video explains how car sharing services are convenient, cost-effective, and better for the environment than owning a vehicle.
Students will learn that many cities have a variety of car sharing models designed to make car sharing easy.
Teaching Tips
Positives
The video contains labeled chapters or segments that make it easy to jump to a specific part of the video.
Students will be inspired to look into car sharing options in their own communities.
Additional Prerequisites
This video begins with an advertisement.
Differentiation
English or writing classes could research local car sharing services and create a newsletter or brochure to distribute to the community. Options for research and writing activities could include the following:
Students could create infographics showing how ride sharing can help cut down on the number of cars on the road.
Students could write informational articles explaining the car sharing services available.
Students could write opinion pieces on why more car sharing services should be available in their communities.
Students could write product reviews for the services apps.
Students could conduct community surveys to gauge interest in car sharing.
Computer coding and design classes could discuss the necessary components to a successful car sharing app.
Life skills and economics classes could calculate the expenses associated with car ownership (gas, car insurance, car maintenance, car depreciation, parking fees, and the price of the vehicle) and compare that with the price of car sharing services.
Other resources on this topic include this Grist video on life without a car, this resource on calculating your carbon footprint, and this ClimateScience course on what individuals can do to combat climate change.
Scientist Notes
The resource explores car sharing, a strategy to limit transportation cost and reduce traffic congestion and CO2 levels per capita. This resource is insightful and suitable for urban planning. This is recommended for teaching.
Standards
Science and Engineering
ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
HS-ESS3-2 Evaluate competing design solutions for developing, managing, and utilizing energy and mineral resources based on cost-benefit ratios.
English Language Arts
Speaking and Listening (K-12)
SL.6-8.2 Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric.
Social Studies
Personal Finance & Economics
Global Connections (F2): Students understand economic aspects of unity and diversity in Maine, the United States, and the world, including Maine Native American communities, by analyzing how resource distribution effects wealth, poverty, and other economic factors.
