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The Challenges of Urban Sprawl

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Objective Students will demonstrate their understanding of urban sprawl by examining online resources about urban sprawl and recording written responses to teacher-generated questions.

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Vocabulary Urban sprawl Suburban sprawl Job Sprawl is another land use symptom of urban sprawl and car-dependent communities. It is defined as low-density, geographically spread-out patterns of employment, where the majority of jobs in a given metropolitan area are located outside of the main city's Central Bussines District(CBD), and increasingly in the suburban periphery.

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CCR Anchor Standard Standard #4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. Standard #8: Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.

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Accessing this lesson online: It is not necessary to print out these lesson materials! Go to http://www.baltimorecityschools.org/341 http://www.baltimorecityschools.org/341 and click on the Suburban Sprawl icon to view this Power Point presentation, which includes live links to the resources in slide show view.

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Urban Sprawl Maryland http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at- nasa/2002/11oct_sprawl/

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LEVITTOWN, NY

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Aero Acres

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WHERES COLUMBIA?

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Rubric

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Cornell Notes Summary: Name: Topic: How does urban sprawl affect our lives?

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Essential Questions In your own words, write a definition of urban sprawl. Name three causes of urban sprawl. What are the statistics concerning urban sprawl? How did World War II trigger urban sprawl near Baltimore? What are the pros and cons of urban sprawl? Describe four ways that urban sprawl negatively impacts the environment. What effect will the changes that occur as a result of building a community have on the different species that live in that environment? What financial problems have been created in Queen Annes County as a result of urban sprawl? Why is it necessary for people to plan communities instead of just building houses, businesses, and services as they are needed? How is Columbia, MD an example of a carefully planned community?

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Resources I http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/enviro nment/habitats/urban-sprawl/ http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/enviro nment/habitats/urban-sprawl/ Read page two of this site to get the statistics on urban sprawl. http://geography.howstuffworks.com/terms-and- associations/urban-sprawl.htm http://geography.howstuffworks.com/terms-and- associations/urban-sprawl.htm Read pages three and four of this web site to determine the pros and cons of urban sprawl. http://tclf.org/landscapes/aero-acres http://tclf.org/landscapes/aero-acres

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Resources II http://tclf.org/landscapes/aero-acres http://tclf.org/landscapes/aero-acres Read this web site to find out how urban sprawl began near Baltimore during World War II (9141-1945). http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at- nasa/2002/11oct_sprawl/ http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at- nasa/2002/11oct_sprawl/ This site contains an animated graphic of how Baltimore City was grown dramatically since its beginning.

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Resources III http://www.mdp.state.md.us/PDF/OurWork/AKRF_QAC_%2 0Final_Report.pdf http://www.mdp.state.md.us/PDF/OurWork/AKRF_QAC_%2 0Final_Report.pdf This web site explains how Queen Anne County (on the other side of the Bay Bridge) is suffering because of urban sprawl. http://wd.northwestern.edu/assets/Watersheds-7-Urban- Sprawl-article-questions.pdf http://wd.northwestern.edu/assets/Watersheds-7-Urban- Sprawl-article-questions.pdf A quick overview of urban sprawl. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia,_Maryland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia,_Maryland About Columbia, MD (a planned community)

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Extension Activity: SIRS Researcher www.bcpss.org, Login,Password=your first name (first letter capitalized). www.bcpss.org Click on the Resources tab, Click on SIRS RESEARCHER. Search for urban sprawl. Read one or more of the following articles: 1.What You Don't Know About Sprawl 2.Sprawl: The New Manifest Destiny? 3.Subdivide And Conquer Navigate to the REACH Home Page at http://www.baltimorecityschools.org/341http://www.baltimorecityschools.org/341

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For Further Planning: http://www- tc.pbs.org/teachers/ecoinvestigators/E coInv_LandLessonEight.pdf http://www- tc.pbs.org/teachers/ecoinvestigators/E coInv_LandLessonEight.pdf