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Belt-Abouts (Lesson 3)

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students discuss the importance of wearing seat belts every time they are in a car. After identifying new vocabulary, they review some of the excuses others use not to wear their seat belts. They give a survey to their family members...
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Design and Race a Solar Car

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students design, construct and evaluate a solar powered model car.  In this solar power lesson students compete in a "solar sprint" race once their car is created. 
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Field Trip to Car Dealer

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students list things to consider before buying a car. In this social studies instructional activity, student explore the car dealership business by going on a class field trip. They share what they have learned in class.
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Wings, Chrome, and Tailfins: Automobiles of the 1950s

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Pupils study the automobile industry. In this cultural history lesson, students explore 1950s America as they view a teacher-created PowerPoint presentation regarding the 1950s. Pupils research how the automobile changed the 1950s...
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The Air Car

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students, in groups, design and construct an air car capable of acceleration. They view a video on acceleration, test their cars and make adjustments as desired.
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Describing the Motion of a Battery Powered Cars

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners explore distance a toy car travels by changing the amount of batteries used to power the toy car.  In this force and motion lesson, students calculate the average speed of a car while investigating the power from various...
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Balloon Powered Race Cars

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students examine Newton's Law of Motion and use the formula to calculate speed.  In this laws of motion lesson students create a balloon powered car and calculate its speed and distance. 
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New Cars? Selecting and Financing

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders determine probabilities of real-life events such as life expectancies, winning a lottery ticket, and the break-even premium. They deduce what percent of markup is. Students are able to compare terms for financing a car...
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Buying My First Car Worksheet 3

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
In this math worksheet, students create a spreadsheet for the different costs of the purchase of a car and use the information to answer 3 questions.
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The Dymaxion Car

For Students 5th - 8th
In this motion worksheet, students read about the invention of the Dymaxion car that was designed to achieve high speeds. Students complete 2 short answer questions based on the reading.
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Houses and Cars and Loans

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students create a spreadsheet to track their spending. In this algebra lesson, students use loan formulas to calculate the payback amount plus interest on a loan. They calculate how much money they would need to buy a car and house.
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Buying and Financing the Car of Your Dreams

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders go to one of a number of web sites (provided by the teacher in a hotlist) to find a car they would like to buy if they were old enough. They would then be provided with the necessary information to compute monthly payments...
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"Go-Car" Lab

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students construct a car based on directions given. In this physics lesson, students calculate average speed using distance and time information. They collect data and create a graph of distance vs. time.
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Reading Comprehension: The Death Car

For Students 7th - 9th
In this reading comprehension instructional activity, students must read "The Death Car" and answer reading comprehension questions about the selection. Students have 12 minutes to complete the exercise.
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C For Car

For Students K - 2nd
In this alphabet letter C worksheet, students trace both the uppercase and lowercase letter C 3 times each and then write them 3 times each on the lines provided. Students write the word car and then color the picture of a car.
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Newton Car

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students demonstrate Newton's Second Law of Motion by showing the reaction of a rolling car by increasing its mass and propulsion.
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Magnetic Attraction And Cars

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this magnetic attraction worksheet, students draw arrows to shoe if cars with positive and negative signs repel or attract each other, then write definitions for "attract" and "repel."
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Family Letter and Activity: Cars, Trucks and Percents

For Students 4th - 5th
In this math worksheet, students will take home a letter to their parents explaining that they are studying Chapter 10: Ratio, Proportion and Percent. Then students will complete a homework activity in which they ask family and friends...
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Bill Gates's Car

For Students 5th - 7th
In this passive verbs worksheet, students complete a 10 question on-line interactive quiz. Students read the sentences about Bill Gates's car and fill the blanks with the correct passive form of the verb in parentheses.
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Car Adverts: Tell It Like It is

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the strategies and bias that are sometimes used in advertising with a particular focus on automobile advertising. Working in groups, they read several car ads and discuss the bias, opinion and stereotyping in the ads as...
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Automotive Words

For Students 6th - 8th
In this technology learning exercise, students find the words that are related to the concept of cars and the answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Handwriting: C is for Car

For Students Pre-K - K
In this handwriting worksheet, learners trace and write the upper and lower case letter C. They trace a row of each letter, write a row on their own and practice writing the word 'car'.
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Measure the Length of the Object – Basic

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this measurement worksheet, students measure cars, trucks, feathers, and more with the units given. Students complete 9 problems.
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Car Wash

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students determine the most appropriate site for a car wash, based on each site's soil characteristics (chemical, physical) and topographic features. They perform an experiment to determine the changes to three different soil types when...

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