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- 7th - 12th
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Students view a documentary on automobiles. Americans have always been in love with automobiles. They are a definition of character, and a representation of social status. After viewing, students discuss what they saw and create an advertisement for a car Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students read a lesson on international trade and then debate whether the U.S. government could improve job opportunities by passing lesiglation restricitng car imports or by subsidizing domestic car production. Full Review »
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- 4th - 5th
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Students discuss safety and style of cars in the 1950's and now. They, in groups, design a car taking style and safety into consideration. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students investigate the history of the automobile in the United States. They complete a Webquest, explore the PBS website, answer discussion questions, and locate and discuss newspaper articles about cars and travel. Full Review »
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- 11th
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Students explore the American fascination with automobiles, and their impact on society. They consider the benefits as well as the costs associated with automobiles and discuss their amount of dependency on cars, and design a public transit system. Full Review »
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- 7th - 9th
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Students explore the ideas of propulsion, suspension, and structure as they design, build, test, and analyze a vehicle powered by the springing action of a mousetrap. They complete a final report of their findings and share them with the rest of the class. Full Review »
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- 11th - 12th
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Students identify and explain the variables effecting supply and demand in the marketing industry. Then they define the terms supply and demand and graph supply and demand curves on a standard grid. Students also formulate what happens when supply exceeds demand and when demand exceeds supply. Finally, they explain how supply and demand effect choices such as careers, and types of cars manufactured summarize recent occurrences where demand exceeded supply. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 5th
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Students study the history of the electric car. They consider whether such a car might be the answer to today's need to cut down on the use of fossil fuels. Information is typed or presented using PowerPoint. Full Review »
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- 6th - 10th
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Students study, analyze and critique a newspaper article on the world's oldest surviving Rolls Royce car that had sold at an auction in London for just over $7,000,000. They assess the key vocabulary terms used within the article, how to understand a short news report and how to write and design a car advert. Full Review »
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- 6th - 9th
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Students read and write about current events. They observe pictures of cars and order them from least expensive to most expensive. After discussing luxury cars, students read articles about luxury cars in China. From their reading, students obtain vocabulary words. They match words to definitions and answer questions about the information read. Full Review »
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