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Geography Drive USA™

For Students 3rd - 6th
A trivia-style virtual road trip in which the player's car is moved from state to state as questions are correctly answered. Ideally, a player would learn about different states by reading the simple brochures available in the...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Battery Charging

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Your class will be very interested in the results of this activity. How long does it take a MP3 and video game player to charge?  Sam only has an hour and the MP3 player only has 40% of its battery life left. Plus, his video player...
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Curated OER

Comparing Light Bulbs

For Teachers K - 8th
An average home produces twice as many emissions as an average car. Teach your class how to reduce energy consumption by replacing standard incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs. Perform an experiment to compare...
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Mathematics Assessment Project

Journey

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Drive home math concepts with an engaging task. Learners follow a verbal description to fill in a table and create a distance-time graph representing a car journey. They then answer questions by interpreting the graph.
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Roald Dahl

The Twits - Mrs Twit Gets a Stretching

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
A cork, a rubber snake, and a bucket of mud may not seem like the best materials for washing a car, but they are in The Twits. The fifth lesson in an 11-part unit designed to accompany The Twits by Roald Dahl has readers role play...
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Curated OER

Buying a New Car

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students locate and compare the costs and options available of three comparable compact, midsize, or luxury automobiles. They utilize websites and a worksheet imbedded in this plan.
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Curated OER

Media/Citizenship: Speed 1

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners investigate media images of cars and speed. They examine drivers' atitudes to speed by completing an activity sheet and responding to press reports about speeding drivers.
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Curated OER

Can a Christian Drive an Expensive Car

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students decide whether or not they feel that a Christian could drive an expensive car.  In this Christian values lesson, students discuss their views on a Christian having luxury items such as an expensive car.  Students write...
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Curated OER

4 Steps to Road Safety

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students identify the "4 Steps for Kids" and how they can stay safer. In this important rules lesson, students take measurements and refer to a chart to identify their Safety Seat Number.  Students also...
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Curated OER

Race to the Eating Line

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate the steps in writing a newspaper sports article and utilizd the information to report their class car race results. The racing cars are built out of vegetables and fruit and entered into the class competition,...
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Curated OER

Wheelies

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students design wheels for a coaster car to travel varying terrain. In this motion and friction lesson, students discuss friction and motion and test wooden wheels on a track. Students then brainstorm how to increase friction and bring...
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Curated OER

CO2 Dragster Challenge CO2 Dragster Challenge

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders construct a car out of a block of basswood.  In this car lesson students research, design and construct their own cars.
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Curated OER

Safety Seats

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students identify the different types of car seats. In this adult health lesson, students describe the proper way of restraining a child in the car. They solve real life scenarios given in class.
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Curated OER

Carshop!

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore the concept of interest. In this interest lesson, students shop for cars and determine the payments and interest rates for various cars. Students use various websites to research cars and interest rates for car loans....
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Curated OER

Toddler's Delight

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students are challenged to design a toy or something that can attach to a toddler's car seat to help distract them during long car trips. Students research toddler toys prior to beginning the design process in order to determine the...
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Curated OER

The First Road Trip, Parts 1 and 2

For Students 5th - 6th
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a three-paragraph fictional passage about the first engine car, They answer four short-essay questions about this passage. Road Trip, Part 2 contains a six-paragraph story, eight...
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Curated OER

Rocket Activity

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore Newton's Second Law of Motion. In this rocket activity lesson, students experiment with Newton's Second Law of Motion as they use a slingshot device to force a car to move.
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Curated OER

Do the Research! Henry Ford

For Students 4th - 6th
In this Henry Ford worksheet, students research information about the inventor of mass produced cars. Students write the answers to 4 short answer essay questions.
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Curated OER

Fast Cars and Roll-Over

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students creat a ramp using cardboard and tape. They follow directions to perform an experiment to determine the degree of tilt needed to cause an empty milk carton to tip over. Students discuss their results in terms of center of gravity.
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Curated OER

Solar Car Series: During what part of the day can t most Sun power be collected?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners participate in an outdoor activity in which they make direct but safe observations of the Sun. Students use a solar cell and voltmeter apparatus to collect data on the amount of DC voltage produced by the solar cell during a...
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Curated OER

Recycled Vegetable Oil Powers Vans, Cars

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students share their knowledge about fuel sources, then read a news article about vegetable oil as a cleaner alternative to gasoline. In this current events and environmental science lesson, the teacher introduces the article with a...
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Curated OER

Investigation - Staci's New Car

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders solve math combination problems. In this combination problem solving lesson, 6th graders participate in a teacher led session in which they use tree diagrams and organized lists to determine all of the possible combinations...
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Curated OER

Car Talk

For Students 9th - 11th
In this algebra worksheet, students solve word problems by rewriting it into algebraic symbols. They calculate the distance James ran. There is an answer key.
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Curated OER

Battery Operated Model Car Experiments

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students time battery operated cars over a set track and determine the velocity of each type of car. They use the cars as manipulatives to demonstrate word problems involving velocity.

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