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Beyond Benign

Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiesel

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Fossil fuels are non-renewable resources and have become crucial to the livelihood of countless individuals. Young chemists investigate an alternative method of generating energy by performing a series of activities that lead to the...
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Teach Engineering

Combustion and Air Quality: Emissions Monitoring

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Help your class determine the types of pollutants coming from vehicle exhaust. Groups use an air quality monitor to determine the emissions from different vehicles, to gain knowledge about combustion energy, and to predict how the...
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Curated OER

Transportation and Environment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students make an eco-friendly vehicle to help make transportation better for the environment. In this transportation lesson, students learn how transportation inventions are bad for the environment. They then see how engineers have tried...
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Perkins School for the Blind

Safety Crash Testing

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Everyone knows that cars have safety features, but wouldn't it be fun to design your own? Learners with visual impairments build a ramp and then attempt to use the material provided to design a safety system to protect a raw egg from a...
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National Science Teachers Association

Paper Car Crash Design

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High school physical scientists collide with motion. They work in pairs to design a paper car that will protect a raw egg during a head-on collision. Measurements of distance traveled, time of run, vehicle specs, and photo gate flags are...
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Wild BC

Greenhouse Gas Guzzlers

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Teams of six to eight players imagine that they are driving in a vehicle and collect balls that represent carbon dioxide emissions based on their different activities. "Greenhouse Gas Guzzler" cards tell teams how many balls to collect...
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Visa

Saving and Investing

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
Impress upon your young adults the importance of saving and investing, and give them a foundational vocabulary from which they can continue to build their financial literacy. This lesson plan covers short- and long-term budget goals,...
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Curated OER

Left and Right Worksheet - Vehicles

For Students 1st
In this positions of objects worksheet, 1st graders practice recognizing left and right by following the circling directions in each of the 6 boxes of pictures.
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Curated OER

Earn Points with Technology

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore renewable energy by analyzing a diagram. In this fossil fuel lesson plan, students view a chart explaining the different energy consumption from automobiles and how they impact our environment. Students analyze a point...
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Curated OER

Transportation

For Students 4th - 5th
In this transportation types worksheet, students study the images of the vehicles in each box. Students circle the vehicle that does not belong in the box. Students also sort the vehicles into the proper category: land, air, and water...
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Curated OER

To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students study pictures of space vehicles and make their own space vehicle. In this space vehicle lesson, students study pictures of the vehicles and compare and contrast the pictures. Students classify the space crafts and then create...
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Curated OER

Speed Trap

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students explore the usefulness of algebraic skill development as they make decisions based on their ability to accurately estimate the speed of moving vehicles. The life and death possibilities place an interesting"spin" on this skill.
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Curated OER

Types of Transportation

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners identify and describe various modes of transportation. In this transportation lesson, students discuss the types of transportation shown in the Landscape Picture and discuss the purpose of that vehicle. Learners locate examples...
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Curated OER

Transportation

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners explore basic transportation vehicles, specifically air, land, and water vehicles, name six different modes of transportation, identify four different kinds of train cars, and three differences between two different modes of...
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Curated OER

Fuel for Thought

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars explore the mathematical concepts used to compare different types of vehicles. They create a print advertisement in which they persuade an audience to purchase a specific vehicle.
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Curated OER

Boomtime

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view a short film about the rise of prosperity after World War II. They examine the role of status symbols and owning vehicles. They compare and contrast advertisements from the 1950's with those from the 1990's.
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Curated OER

Mechanical Monsters

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students experiment try to build a Lego car.  In this physical science lesson students present and demonstrate the vehicle that they constructed. 
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Curated OER

Activity One Teacher Page: Vehicles In Motion

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students identify variables that affect the system, and specify which variables are independent and which are dependent.
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Curated OER

Jones Soda Project - Photography as a Vehicle (For Marketing)

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students create a marketing campaign using digital photographs. In this digital marketing lesson, students perform online research to determine the attitude that a soda company is attempting to portray with its marketing. They take...
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Curated OER

Intermediate Critical Reading - Hybrid Vehicles

For Students 6th - 7th
In these critical reading worksheets, learners read the story about hybrid vehicles. Students then answer 4 critical reading questions.
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Curated OER

A Human-Powered Vehicle for Trans-Glacial Transport

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars practice problem solving skills and experimental design. They build a vehicle that can traverse "glacial" ice capable of carrying a specific load and glide smoothly, creating as little effort as possible for the skier...
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Curated OER

Average Vehicle Occupancy In Your Community

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students determine the average vehicle occupancy in their community.  In this transportation lesson students develop and analyze a survey to determine attitudes towards air pollution and transportation. 
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Curated OER

Automated Vehicle Programming Design

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students design a program to make an automated vehicle perform a specific task. In this robotics lesson, students play the role of scientists competing to win a factory's contract. They present their algorithm to class.
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Curated OER

Match the Trucks

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students discover the many types of delivery work vehicles in the world.  In this transportation lesson, students investigate how our local products get here, and where they come from.  Students solve a work sheet based on...

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