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Designing a Crew Exploration Vehicle

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Take your class on an out-of-this-world adventure with this fun engineering design lesson. Working in small groups, young scientists design, build, and test crew exploration vehicles using some creativity, teamwork, and...
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Vehicles

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this vehicles instructional activity, learners complete a 10 question on-line interactive quiz. Students unscramble the letters to spell the names of vehicles.
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Vehicle Graphic Organizer

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
A two-slide presentation shows learners how to design a car. The first slide has them list the color, number of wheels, and a drawing of the vehicle. The second slide has them list all of the materials they will need to build it.
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Vehicles in the Air

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
There are vehicles that travel on the ground and there are vehicles that travel through the air. Show some of the various machines that fly. The helicopter, air plane, and hot air balloon are only a few vehicles mentioned on this...
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Water Vehicles

For Teachers Pre-K - K
What kinds of vehicles travel in the water? Water vehicles of course. This image-driven resource provides a list of names and images of various water craft. There are nine different vehicles represented in this vocabulary primer.
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Vehicles That Travel on the Ground

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Ground vehicles are any mode of transportation that occurs on the ground. Cars, trucks, bikes, and vans are all depicted with colorful images and large easy-to-read print. This is a perfect way to kick off a preschool unit on...
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Hybrid Vehicles: Cut Pollution and Save Money

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Math and science meet in this lesson on hybrid electric automobiles. This 24-page resource provides everything you need for teaching a lesson that compares the use of internal combustion engines to hybrid electric engines. Participants...
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Design a Crew Exploration Vehicle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Make a splash from space. Participants use the engineering design process to create a waterproof space exploration vehicle capable of an upright landing. Young engineers test and modify designs as needed and participate in a group...
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Designing an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV): Concepts in Lift, Drag, Thrust, Energy, Power, Mass, and Buoyancy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Engineer an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to study concepts of physics. Using household materials, collaborative groups design and build an AUV and then test Newton's Laws of Motion as they apply them in underwater environments...
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Engineering Brainstorming

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Here is a lesson that offers a great hybrid of forming new skills and using current knowledge to come up with a plan. The class brainstorms information they would need to know or already know about hybrid vehicles. They then group...
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Fueling the Future

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Future mechanical engineers and automotive technicians read about various solutions to using gasoline in cars. Included are electric, fuel-cell-powered, and hybrid vehicles.
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Left and Right Worksheet - Vehicles

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this positions of objects worksheet, students practice recognizing left and right by circling the vehicles according to directions for 5 examples.
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Circle the Vehicles Facing Right

For Students K - 1st
In this positions of objects worksheet, students look at the vehicles and circle the ones facing right. Students improve their understanding of left and right.
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Favorite Vehicles Graph

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this graphing worksheet, students answer 6 simple questions using a graph showing "kids favorite vehicles."
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When A Car Coughs. . .

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Budding scientists collect and compare particulate exhaust from four different vehicles. They discuss how cars contribute to air quality. To get the most mileage out of this resource, have learners complete the optional step 5, in which...
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My Wet Robot

For Teachers 5th - 8th
After hearing about the 2006 PHAEDRA mission that explored the Aegean Sea, middle schoolers work in groups to create a robotic vehicle. They must consider power, propulsion, and other vital systems. Use the multitude of external...
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The Roving Robotic Chemist

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Junior oceanographers and underwater geologists describe the four major steps of mass spectrometry. They compete in small groups to simulate the tracking of a deepwater methane plume using imaginary autonomous underwater vehicles. Give...
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Design Technology

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
A short and sweet presentation shows different types of vehicles. After viewing many slides that show a variety of vehicles, pupils are assigned the task of designing their own vehicle, and presenting it to the class.
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Hybrid Vehicles: Cut Pollution and Save Money

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine how driving a hybrid car can save money and cut down on pollution.  In this hybrid vehicles lesson students complete an exercise that shows them how to work with proportions, percents, dimensional analysis and...
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Mother Goose Vehicle Puzzle

For Students K - 1st
In this Mother Goose vehicles puzzle activity, students read a rhyme that mentions a sailing ship. Students cut out 7 pieces and paste them on another paper to make a ship. There is a picture to hint students.
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Scooting Along!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars investigate how Newton's Third Law affects vehicle design. In this Newton's Third Law lesson plan, students use a web site to research Newton, his third law, and how to design a vehicle that uses a balloon for power. They...
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Energy Storage Derby and Proposal

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Small groups use the engineering design process to build and test a vehicle capable of carrying 250 grams a distance of five meters. The design must allow for the storage of potential energy and turn it into motion,...
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Purchasing a Vehicle

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Start your engines! Prevent negative car buying experiences by arming pupils with information. Prepare your young drivers to make informed decisions when they are ready to purchase a car. All aspects are considered from the type of car...
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What's That?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Meant to be a simulation of a deep-sea exploration, this requires that another lesson be completed first. In that lesson, titled "Animals of the Lost City," marine biology buffs construct murals of benthic communities. In this lesson,...

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