Tuesday, June 12, 2007

International Exercise

Topic of the International Exercise:

Transportation

Each set of students (one Rome, one Tokyo or in some cases two Rome, one Tokyo) will pick a theme to explore relative to the issue of transporation.

Such as:

pollution
time
humnan interaction
connections

Assignment

4 routes to school, door to door
4 different methods of transportation i.e walking, subway, bus, bike, scooter
1 route with GPS device, data will be given to Mariko, who will load it into My Maps.

Each student will annotate the city My Map with their documentation (photo, text, sound, video) of their routes.

Tokyo will be layered onto Rome and we will see the compartive results.

Monday, June 4, 2007