Activities

1. List three things you can expect to find in an urban area and give one example of an urban area in Pennsylvania.
   
   
2. List three things you can expect to find in a suburban area.
   
   
3. List three things you can expect to find in a rural area.

4. How is daily life different in an urban area than in a rural area?  How is it the same?  List at least three similarities and three differences.
   
   
5. List two recreation activities that are normally done in an urban area and two that are normally done in a rural area.  Do you think it would be difficult for these activities to take place in both locations?  Why or why not?

6. Why do you think factories are usually located in urban areas?  Give two reasons to support your opinion.
   
   
7. Which industries do you think are more important:  those found in urban areas or those found in rural areas?  Use at least 3 facts to defend your opinion.

Answer Key/Rubric

1. Examples of things you can expect to find in an urban area include, but are not limited to: lots of cars, apartment buildings, lots of sidewalks, people of bicycles, people walking, traffic lights, small stores, taxis, factories
   Examples of urban areas in Pennsylvania include, but are not limited to:  Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh

2. Examples include but are not limited to: large houses, housing developments, grocery stores, shopping malls
   
   
3. Examples include but are not limited to: farms, cows, buggies, tractors, crops, horses, lots of fields

4. Similarities may include, but are not limited to:

• People go to work.
• Kids go to school.
• People take care of their pets.
• People spend time with their families.
• Kids play outside.

Differences may include, but are not limited to:

• People in urban areas may walk to work or take public transportation.  People in rural areas use cars to get to work.
• Kids in urban areas might play in a park.  Kids in rural areas may have big yards where they play.
• People in urban areas may work in factories or office buildings.  People in rural areas may work on farms.

5. Urban recreational activities may include, but are not limited to:

• Parks
• Going to a movie theater
• Going to a shopping mall
• Going to a museum

Rural recreational activities may include, but are not limited to:

• Hiking
• Canoeing
• Camping
• Skiing
• Rock climbing
• Playing golf

6. Topics addressed may include, but are not limited to:

• Urban areas have a lot of people
• A factory in an urban area may be close to other resources it needs. 
• If other necessary resources are close, then the company does not need to pay high cost to have the materials transported to the factory.

7. Student responses will vary.  Use this rubric to evaluate student responses.