Grade 8 Lesson plan
The Amberlock Canal: Freight Costs and Where Towns Grew
A grade 8 lesson in which students write and solve a freight-cost equation for a fictional canal, then use it to explain why canal towns grew faster.
C3 Framework · Grades 6–8
D2.Geo.7.6-8 Transportation, technology, and settlement connections
Explain how changes in transportation and communication technology influence the spatial connections among human settlements and affect the diffusion of ideas and cultural practices.
Why water teaches this standard well
Canals and steamboats once made rivers the nation's highways, and towns grew where water transportation connected them. Tracing how the Erie Canal linked the Great Lakes to the Atlantic shows students how a water transportation technology redrew settlement patterns and carried people and ideas inland.
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