Curated OER
What? No Cars?
Students consider a world in which cars are banned. They work together to develop a sketch of transportation alternatives. They share their ideas with the class.
Curated OER
MFL: Dangerous Driving
Students discuss why speed limits are important for safety of others. They examine public advertisements aimed at reducing the amount of deaths on the road. They read an article about traffic accidents and answer questions. They write an...
Curated OER
Media/Citizenship: Speed 1
Students investigate media images of cars and speed. They examine drivers' atitudes to speed by completing an activity sheet and responding to press reports about speeding drivers.
Curated OER
From Automobiles to Cars
Students research important inventions from the last two hundred years. They explore how one invention relates to another and summarize their research in a written report and visual presentation.
Curated OER
Buying vs. Leasing Car
Students use the Internet and worksheets to calculate the costs, advantages and disadvantages to buying or leasing a car. They write a summary of their investigation and decide which option they think is better.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Motorized Car (Pdf) [Pdf]
Hands-on challenge to make a car that uses a battery-operated motor. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to design, build, test, and redesign it if necessary. Also, includes ideas for taking your design to the next level....
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Automotive Industries
This site is to an on-line magazine that is loaded with current and up-to-date information on the auto industry. Good general information about the auto industry.
How Stuff Works
How Stuff Works: How Electric Cars Work
A very detailed look at how electric cars work, including converting a normal car into an electric one, costs involved, cost of operating an electric car, maintenance, etc. Accompanied by a video and numerous photographs.
The Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve Board: Keys to Vehicle Leasing: Quick Consumer Guide
Quick consumer guide provides information on all aspects of leasing a vehicle to help you understand the costs and terms of a lease and shows you how leasing a car is different than buying.
PBS
Pbs: News Hour Extra: Video Clip Board: Will Electric Cars Rule the Road?
Video considers the prospects for battery-powered electric cars and asks if they can compete with gas-powered ones.
The Henry Ford
The Henry Ford Showroom of Automotive History
Learn about automotive history as you browse the collection of The Henry Ford Museum. Enter the showroom to see a complete profile on some of the most important cars ever made, from the 1896 quadricycle to the 1986 Taurus.
Washington State University
Washington State University: Ask Dr. Universe: How Do Cars Work?
Website from Washington State University answers questions kids have about science, mechanics and engineering in an easy to understand format. In this letter, Dr. Universe answers questions about how the family car works.
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Car and Driver
Car and Driver Magazine details the latest news, features, shows, issues and tests of cars today.
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Texas Department of Transportation
This resource has information on various types of transportation and issues in Texas, and general facts.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Technology: I Like Cars!
Cars come in many shapes and sizes. Book includes audio narration in seven additional languages with text in English.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: The People's Highway: Route 66: 1930s 1940s
This section of the America on the Move exhibition explores the substance behind the myth of Route 66, telling the stories of real people who made their living on or beside the road and who traveled on the fabled highway.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Cars
Cars shows a car speeding away up a street and asks students to respond to the question, Do you ever feel unsafe and out of control when someone else is driving?
University of Michigan
National Endowment for the Humanities: Automobile in American Life and Society
An interactive website that looks at all aspects of the automobile in American life. Teacher and student resources are included.
Hunkins Experiments
The Secret Life of Machines
An entertaining site that communicates ideas through cartoon drawings. Discover how simple machines and gadgets operate, such as fax machines and washing machines.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Automotive Mechanic
General information on the job of an automotive mechanic. It explains what a mechanic does, how to prepare for the job, and the average pay.
Museum of Modern Art
Mo Ma: Different Roads: Automobiles for the Next Century
Check out some of the future car designs from major manufacturers. Also learn about what goes in to powering cars among other bits of information.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: A New Ecosystem for Electric Cars
Forget about the hybrid auto- Shai Agassi says it's electric cars or bust if we want to impact emissions. His company, Better Place, has a radical plan to take entire countries oil-free by 2020. [18:03]
PBS
Pbs Kids: Wild Kratts: Creature Mobile
Mix creature powers to customize different creature mobiles to outrace the Zachbots.
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Consumer Action
Consumer Action serves consumers nationwide by advancing consumer rights, referring consumers to complaint-handling agencies through their free hotline, publishing educational materials in Chinese, English, Korean, Spanish, Vietnamese...