Positives

• This resource makes complicated concepts easy to understand.
• Students will benefit from text features that add to comprehension, such as meaningful headings and subheadings, sidebars, and data.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should have prior knowledge of carbon emissions and climate change. 
  

Differentiation

• Cross-curricular connections can be made in social studies classes discussing city planning and design or health classes thinking about how walking impacts human health.
• After reading, have students brainstorm how to increase walkability in their city or town using the design principles from the article. 
• As an extension, have students design walkable cities of their own in groups or individually.
• Economics classes could research the costs involved with adding more sidewalks and paths for non-vehicle transportation in their city.