1. Board Work – Critical Thinking Journals
Make a list of inventions or contributions America has given the world. What innovations are uniquely American and can be accredited to American ingenuity

2. Science and Urban Life
Unit 5

3. Technology and the City Life
Skyscrapers
America’s contribution to architecture

8. Technology and the City Life
Electric/Mass Transit
Streetcars
Railroads
Subways

9. Critical Thinking Journal
How important is the organization of a city to the quality of life within that city?

11. Urban Planning People who map out how a city should be organized
Frederick Law Olmsted
Central Park in New York.
Daniel Burnham
the Chicago Lake Front
Items to Plan (SimCity)
Economic zones, roads, civic institutions, parks, schools, and housing units

12. Central Park – New York

13. Central Park – New York

14. Central Park – New York (My Trip)

15. Chicago Lake Front

16. Chicago Lake Front

17. Critical Thinking Question
How much of a role should the government play in manipulating the layout and ownership of specific property within a city or town?

18. Flight The Wright Brothers
First in the world to fly a “heavier-than-air” vehicle

19. Technology and Communication
Airplanes allowed mail to travel from New York to San Francisco in 1.5 days
90% of America could read
printing increased - economics