A teaching by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the use of the Tibetan Prayer Wheel. Explains why Tibetan Buddhist use the prayer wheel. Discusses the different kinds of prayer wheels and the mantra Om Mani Padme Hung. Includes a glossary of...

Create your own 4-wheel balloon cars with simple household items and race them across the floor.

Make your own 2-wheel, air-power cars and race them or play games with them. Balloons and straws are them main components.

Make your own Robo Wheel to race or do freestyle tricks using simple household items like paper bowls, string, and rubber bands.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource can be used as an aid to devising constructed response prompts. This wheel can be edited so that prompts in other core areas can be added.

In this activity, teams of students learn about the history and engineering behind big wheels (Ferris wheels) by constructing a working model using pasta, glue, and teabags.

This lesson is very similar to the popular television show Wheel of Fortune. Students are chosen to spin the Wheel of Fitness and whatever they land on is the exercise they perform.

The text of Jim Daniels's poem, "Wheels," from his poetry collection, Places/Everyone.

You can cruise and carve while you investigate which skateboard wheels produce the fastest (and slowest) rides on your terrain in these experiments. You pick the wheels and design the tests you think will produce the most extreme results...

An interactive look at the Buddhist wheel of life.

Several good activities here. Look particularly at Wheel Figure It Out (which is the opening page) and Gearing Up. There are answers to the very good questions at the bottom of each.

This site provides the complete etext for H. G. Wells's story, "The Wheels of Chance; A Bicycling Idyll."

Count the wheels on different things. Book includes audio narration in 12 additional languages with text in English.

This resource is part of a two unit curriculum designed for fourth-graders using the 5E Instructional Model (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate and Evaluate) to support students as they investigate the effect that height and other...

An encyclopedia article from Wikipedia on the wheel discusses how wheels operate and travel on surfaces, and gives information on the invention and use of the wheel in ancient times. Links are also provided for additional information.

An in-depth explanation of the wheel and axle from Scholastic. Also provides several examples and a picture for understanding.

Students learn about the engineering design process as they design, build, test, and evaluate a big wheel or Ferris wheel made with pasta, glue, and teabags. The objective of the lesson is to explore how big wheels have been designed...

Prayer wheels are an example of Buddhist technology. This technology allowed the faithful to multiply the number of prayers they expressed by millions. This is because prayer wheels are filled with copies of mantras (sacred spells...

Describes some history of the wheel and axle, how it works, the formula for calculating its mechanical advantage, and some applications of the wheel and axle.

Did you know that by holding a spinning bicycle wheel you can make a rotating chair spin? This activity will have you spinning as you use a bicycle wheel as a gyroscope.

A learning module that begins with "Turn, Turn, My Wheel" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...

A web sketchpad activity helps students make sense of relationships between quantities, in this case the way that the distance a car travels around a Ferris wheel covaries with its "width" or horizontal distance from the center of the...

How does a mass-produced die-cast toy car that originally sold for less than a dollar -- and fits in a small child's hand -- become a valued collectible trading for hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars? Five of the most valuable and...

This interactive exercise focuses on working with the radius of various circles to find the circumference and area as well as challenging you to find the distance a square wheel travels around the track.