Section 1: Rivers
The Holy Dog, Ox Carts, and River Trade

Section 2: Rails
Railways Provide Peerless Transportation

Section 3: Roads
Interstate and Individual Freedom

Section 4: Air
Barnstorming and Air Mail

Transportation affects almost every aspect of our lives. Not only does it affect how we get from one place to another, but it determines the price of the clothes we wear, what food we have available to eat and, perhaps, how our ancestors chose to come to this area. Rivers, Roads, Rails and Air was prepared by Prairie Public Television and the North Dakota Department of Transportation to show students how North Dakota's transportation has changed throughout history and how North Dakota's history has been tied to those changes.

Sections of the online teaching guide

This online teaching guide is a companion to the video and can be used to stimulate classroom discussion or assignments regarding transportation in North Dakota and at a national level. The video is broken into four segments: early innovations in transportation, railroads, automobiles and road building and airplanes. In-class viewing of the entire video is not required, as each segment can be used in class on its own.

 

 

 

To order your VHS copy of this 60 minute video, call 1-800-359-6900.