Teach Engineering
Active and Passive Transport: Red Rover Send Particles Over
I can move about freely, but you cannot. The class models the movement through cell membranes by way of passive and active transport. Members of the class play the roles of various proteins, atoms, compounds, and cell actions and mimic...
Alabama Department of Archives and History
Changes in Transportation over Time
Planes, trains, and automobiles. How many ways to travel are there? Scholars learn about modes of transportation in the past and how they have changed over time. Budding historians view a timeline, participate in group discussion, and...
Curated OER
Construction of the Titanic
How was the Titanic built? Using this study guide, young historians discover details regarding the construction of the Titanic. Students read 7 sections of information and examine photographs. Consider using this handout as a jigsaw...
Curated OER
Transportation
Students identify and name at least six different kinds of transportion, sort and classify different kinds of transport according to similar and/or different characteristics and identify the purpose of different types of transportion.
Curated OER
Do As the Romans: Construct an Aqueduct!
Middle schoolers explore how the Romans engineered and built aqueducts. They read a manual, explore the Construct a Roman Aqueduct online activity, and construct an aqueduct that will transport two liters of water across a short...
NASA
NASA: Moving Cargo
How does NASA transport people and cargo to planets? The five-lesson unit breaks down the transportation system that scientists use to transport cargo to space. Pairs team up in order to devise a transportation system that will carry the...
Baylor College
A System of Transport
Anatomy and physiology fans imitate how blood flows from place to place in the circulatory system. After constructing and calibrating their own measurement cups, learners discover that different sizes of vessels transport various volumes...
Exploratorium
Breakfast Proteins - Construct a Protein through Cereal Additions
Match my cereal sequence. Pupils view a sequence made by colorful cereal rings and create copies of it. Learners must either remember or write down the sequence to transport the code to another location. Scholars replicate the cereal...
Curated OER
Transportation
In this sentence completion worksheet, students complete the first set of sentences by filling in the missing transportation word. Students then unscramble the words to write sentences about transportation modes.
Curated OER
Transportation Systems
Students examine transportation systems and explore problems created by modern transportation. In this transportation systems lesson, students discuss various forms of transportation as it relates to depletion of our natural oil...
Curated OER
Packaging and Transport
Students examine the methods by which food is packaged and transported to their dinner tables. In this packaging and transporting lesson plan, students explore how machines help people grow food. Students also obtain knowledge about how...
Curated OER
Cities as Transportation Centers
Middle schoolers work in small groups to identify some of the major transportation centers, recommending two as possible sites for a national political convention, based on population density and the travel networks available in 1835.
Curated OER
Transportation History
Students research the major developments in transportation. In groups, they use this information to plot them on a timeline. They also write a paragraph about how advances in technology have changed the world. As a class, they discuss...
Curated OER
Transports
In this transportation activity, students will analyze different modes of transport. Students will study 8 pictures and choose the correct form of transportation depicted in each.
Curated OER
Get Ready to Safely Transport
Fourth graders complete multi-curricular activities to learn about trucks and transportation. For this transportation lesson, 4th graders answer questions about specifics for the trucking industry including safety questions and...
Curated OER
ESL Transportation Multiple Choice Worksheet
For this ESL transportation words worksheet, 4th graders examine 8 clip art pictures of modes of transportation. They choose the name of the vehicle from four choices.
Curated OER
Transport 1
In this transportation ESL worksheet, students will focus on the various modes of transportation. Students will match ten pictures with the appropriate vocabulary from the opposite column.
Curated OER
ESL Transportation Word Matching Worksheet
In this ESL transportation word matching activity, students examine black-line pictures of vehicles. They match the picture with the word that names it, such as a sailboat, a train, a motorcycle, or a canoe.
Curated OER
Suspension Bridge Construction
Students study types, strength and construction of a variety of bridges. They build a model bridge and test the amount of weight it support.
Curated OER
Transportation Color and Sort
In this transportation worksheet, students recognize the various modes of transportation. Students then color, cut, and sort the images.
Curated OER
Rocket Transportation
Students use problem solving skills to lift a load using a balloon rocket. They construct a rocket out of a balloon and use it to carry a paper clip payload.
Curated OER
Travel Transportation
In this ESL transportation words worksheet, learners analyze 7 pictures that depict modes of transportation. Students match the pictures to the words that describe them.
Teach Engineering
Identifying Possible Underground Cavern Locations
Teams continue with the Asteroid Impact challenge and determine possible locations to construct their underground shelters. Participants cut scale area models of their shelters from paper and place them on the map to find locations to...
Curated OER
How Do You Get to School?
Third graders talk about all the various ways they get to school. They make a list of all the bus numbers that the students use. They also list all the other methods of transportation used and solidify a hypothesis.