Resources for educators
Beyond the Road campaign
TxDOT’s work goes Beyond The Road to look at how our projects affect wildlife, historic bridges, wildflowers, pollinators, and more. As a result of our countless hours of research and programs that benefit these environmental resources, Beyond The Road developed tools for educators:
- Teacher guides
- PowerPoints with lessons
- Student activities
Pollinators
Monarch butterflies and highways
Life cycle of a flower: seed to sprout
Bats
- Teacher guide
- Bat habitats; lesson 1: PowerPoint | Elementary school student activities | Middle school student activities
- Bats and beyond; lesson 2: PowerPoint | K-1st Elementary school student activities | 2nd-5th Elementary school student activites | 2nd and 3rd Elementary school student activities | Middle school student activities
- Bats taking flight; lesson 3: PowerPoint | K-2nd Elementary school student: Math activities | 2nd-5th Elementary school student: speed and distance activities (Diagram, Middle school student activities)
Historic bridges
- Teacher guide
- Bridges Day 1: PowerPoint | Middle school student activities
- Bridges Day 2: PowerPoint | Middle school student activities
- Bridges Day 3: PowerPoint | Build a bridge elementary school student activity | Build a bridge 4th-Middle school student activity
- Learn how bridge design and new technology combined to make one of the biggest bridges in Texas
Learn more how our efforts studying monarch butterflies, wildflowers, and pollinators help perpetuate our natural environment.