Handout
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

The National Academies: Emerging Technologies: Electric Vehicles

For Students 9th - 10th
Electric vehicles are in use today but pose challenges to widespread distribution. One of the challenges is to develop a battery that can hold enough energy for longer trips. Various solutions are being tried but mass marketing of this...
Website
Other

Smart Motorist: Driving on Expressways

For Students 9th - 10th
This Smart Motorist website begins by defining "Freeway," and then includes sections on planning a trip on expressways, merging onto the freeway, and reacting in case of emergency. Includes illustrated examples of freeway interchanges...
Primary
Calisphere: University of California Libraries

University of California: Calisphere: 1900 1940s: The Rise of Technology

For Students 9th - 10th
Primary source photographs depicting new technologies and communications at the turn of the 20th century and how lives changed as a result.