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Car Culture in the Fox Valley, 1960
Goal: Students will recognize the post World War II period as one in which automobile use jumped dramatically, allowing people to live further away from their place of work and enabling suburbanization.
Objectives:
1) Students will utilize observational skills to make comparisons between the rates of automobile ownership in various cities of the
2) Students will utilize math skills to calculate percentages (question number 5).
3) Students will be able to name the most popular method of transportation to work in the Fox Valley Region in 1960.
4) Students will be able to verbalize in writing what the high rate of automobile use implies about where employees lived in relationship to their work.
5) Students will make a prediction about popular methods of transportation in 1900.
Study the chart called “Automobiles per Housing Unit, 1960 Fox Valley Region
1) What town or community has the highest percentage of 1 car per housing unit? What town or community has the lowest percentage of 1 car per housing unit?
2) What town or community has the highest percentage of two or more cars per housing unit? What town or community has the lowest percentage of two or more cars per housing unit?
3) What towns or communities have the lowest percentage of no cars per housing unit? What community or town shows the highest percentage of households without cars?
4) In the region, what percentage of households have one car? What percentage have two or more cars? What percentage have no cars?
5) What is 11.5% of the total regional number of housing units (33,608 housing units)?
Now, study the chart called “Workers’ Transportation to Place of Work, 1960 Fox Valley Region,
6) What was the most popular method of transportation to work in 1960? What does this infer about where many people in 1960 lived in relationship to their work?
7) If you were to look at a similar chart from 1900, what do you predict would be different? Would there be different methods of transportation listed? What might they be? What methods of transportation do you think would have been most popular in 1900?
