For the Classroom
Classroom editions of the public television documentary, Save Our Land, Save Our Towns, and the Pennsylvania version, Saving Pennsylvania, are available for use in grades 7 through 12 and college.
An accompanying 78-page teacher's guide covers both a short overview lesson based on the video and eight extended activities about land use planning and community building.
Students will learn that the way we use land affects every aspect of American life. Why do so many young people have to rely on adults to take them where they want to go? Why do we have ghettos? Why are we losing farmland and open space? Why is sprawling development a threat to the environment? These are all land use issues.
The classroom video is edited into two parts with an optional homework assignment:
PART 1 The decline of America's cities and countryside,
1950-2000
18 minutes
PART 2 Building model communities to revive towns, preserve
open space, and protect the environment
22 minutes
OPTIONAL Homework assignment. Compare your community to Tom Hylton's benchmark of 10 rules for a quality community 4 minutes
To download the teacher's guide, overview lesson, click here.
To download the teacher's guide, eight extended activities, click here.
PENNSYLVANIA DEPT. OF EDUCATION STANDARDS COVERED (details in
the teacher's guide):
Environment and Ecology
Civics and Government
Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening
Geography
Mathematics
Science and Technology
Arts and Humanities
Saving Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania version)
$250 schools and institutional use
Order direct from
Save Our Land, Save Our Towns Inc.
222 Chestnut Street
Pottstown, PA 19464
Phone 610.323.6837
FAX 610.323.6841
To order:
Save Our Land, Save Our Towns, (national version)
$250 schools and institutional use
Bullfrog Films
Oley, PA.
1.800.543.3764
