Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout, an adventure multi-chapter book from 1910, written by the ghost writer Victor Appleton. In this book's quest, the main...

At this site you'll find the latest information on car racing. There are many interesting links, including photos.

Think you know your multiplication facts? Try this fast pace game where you race your car by multiplying numbers that are within 100.

Students design, build and evaluate a spring-powered mouse trap racer. For evaluation, teams equip their racers with an intelligent brick from a LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Education Base Set and a HiTechnic acceleration sensor. They use...

A companion site to the PBS documentary on African American Charlie Wiggins, who set up a national auto racing league for African American drivers.

All about NASCAR race cars including horsepower, weight, Busch, Nextel Cup, and Crafstman Truck Series cars.

Kids learn about Danica Patrick's biography and her racing career. Fun facts about the race car driver.

An idea developed by a physical science teacher who applied Newton's Laws of Motion in creating a balloon powered race car. Find simple objective, materials, rules, and procedures.

Learn about Jimmie Johnson and his NASCAR race car driving career. Five-time Sprint Cup Series champion.

Kids learn about Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s biography and his racing career. Fun facts about the NASCAR driver.

Play a racing game by choosing the correct pronoun to complete each sentence. Be careful! Too many errors will cause you to crash.

Austrian Racing site in German with many images that can be navigated by beginners. Numerous links to images, games, screen savers, motorcycles, Formula 1 racing (Formel 1) and cars in general (Autowelt).

Students design, build and test model race cars made from simple materials (lifesaver-shaped candies, plastic drinking straws, Popsicle sticks, index cards, tape) as a way to explore independent, dependent and control variables. They...

From the Smithsonian collection of early automobiles. Read about the Duryea automobile and how it worked. Included are pictures of this early car and a brief description of its creators, the Duryea brothers.

WLVT PBS 39 and PSEA present Write Now! video writing prompts, which are tools for educators and students to use in the classroom to encourage createive writing. This prompt asks: If you placed two different cars in a race, which one...

Popular Mechanics covers the latest in technology. Topics include computers, the Internet, audio, television, and more.

After helping his brother with his car, Jake borrows it and gets involved in a street race. The other car crashes. Jake eventually realizes he must own up to his part in it. This teacher's guide for "Overdrive" by Eric Walters includes a...

All about NASCAR drivers. List of the drivers with a small bio on each.

After watching six cars race across the screen, the student must choose which car finished first, which car was second, etc.

Learn about NASCAR race cars and racetracks. Also racing terms and glossary.

An interactive simulation that teaches about ratios, proportional reasoning, and using double number lines to look for patterns through interactions while shopping for fruits, vegetables, and candy and by comparing cars with different...

In an interactive and game-like manner, students learn about the mechanical advantage that is offered by gears. By virtue of the activity's mechatronics presentation, students learn to study a mechanical system as a dynamic system under...

Swimming Otters Algebra is an educational multi-player racing activity for kids to practice algebraic expressions. How quickly the student correctly answers the algebra problem determines how quickly the race car will go. The student...

Nevil Shute, the author, was also Nevil Shute Norway, engineer and race car driver. This site looks at his life but pays particular attention to his career as a racing driver.