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Cartoons for the Classroom: Who Drew it Best?
Assess the Cash for Clunkers program with your scholars through 3 political cartoons, which they will analyze to determine who drew it best. Background information helps pupils gain context to assess the cartoons, and 3 talking points...
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New Names
Students list names of common products such as cars, and share ideas about how and why those names might have been selected. They find the origins of names for new products. Students create a chart of old and new names for familiar objects.
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Transportation Then and Now
Compare and contrast how transportation has changed throughout the years. This image-driven slide show depicts a variety of advances in transportation. Covered wagons, coaches, trolley cars, boats, and bikes are shown as they were in the...
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Towing Cars -- Legally and Not So Legally
Students discuss the issue of having cars towed in a small community when they should not be. After watching a local news story on the issue, they work together to conduct three full days of research. They write an article to be...
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Wings, Chrome, and Tailfins: Automobiles of the 1950s
Students study the automobile industry. In this cultural history lesson, students explore 1950s America as they view a teacher-created PowerPoint presentation regarding the 1950s. Students research how the automobile changed the 1950s...
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Lining Up the Cars
Students review how to count the total amount of arrangements using multiplication. Using a computer, they determine the amount of cars needed for a parade in their local community to move the town's officials. They identify any patterns...
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The Stoichiometry Behind Pollution
High schoolers research car emissions of various cars and find the toxins emitted. In this stoichiometry instructional activity, students calculate the relationship between reactants and products in a chemical reaction. High schoolers...
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Cars
In this reading comprehension worksheet, learners read the passage on cars. They then answer the 10 questions that go along with the reading.
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Driving Music
Students experience both playing a musical instrument and driving a car. The two experiences tied together by one engineer. The score appears as a road, with twists and turns representing the composer's suggested shifts in mood. This...
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Transportation Museum
Students develop and organize their own transportation museum in the classroom. They brainstorm a list of vehicles and bring in models to display or draw a picture to display.
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How Do Car Engines Work?
High schoolers perform an experiment which simulates what happens inside an internal combustion engine. They explain how the chemical reaction they witnessed is similar to what happens inside the car engine.
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What is the Value of the Car?
Young scholars practice determining the value of cars. Using the internet, they complete a worksheet in which they list the make of each car and use the data to determine the value. They share their results with the class and identify...
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Find The Best Car
Consider how to use consumer reports to review performance, price, reliability and safety information about specific cars. Young learners review how life styles and economics affect car choices. They then find solutions for car-buying...
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Field Trip to Car Dealer
Students explore how car dealership works. In this social studies lesson, students discuss the things to consider before buying a car. They write and share what they have learned in the field trip.
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Build Your Own Car
Young scholars design and build their own cars. In this physics lesson plan, students test their car's speed and make changes when necessary. They graph data and analyze results.
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Miscellaneous Word Problems 46
In this miscellaneous worksheet, 5th graders complete multiple choice word problems about cars, words, and more. Students complete 15 problems.
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Impact of Cars on Society
Students investigate the impact of the automobile on modern American society. In this car lesson, students listen to a presentation on the history and popular culture associated with cars and then write essays about their positive or...
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Measure the Length of the Object – Basic
In this measurement activity, students measure cars, trucks, feathers, and more with the units given. Students complete 9 problems.
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Advanced Matching - Car Parts
In this car parts worksheet, students draw a line from the various car parts to the definitions. There are 14 words to define on this worksheet.
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Automotive Words
In this technology instructional activity, students find the words that are related to the concept of cars and the answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Cars and Trucks
In this technology worksheet, students find the terms related to the makes and models of cars or trucks. The answers are found when clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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Car Manufacturers
In this technology activity, students find the terms related to cars makes and models. The answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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Muscle Cars
In this technology learning exercise, students find the words related to the types of cars and models in the word search. The answers are found by clicking the buttons at the bottom of the page.
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The Automobile
In this technology worksheet, students find the terms in the word search related to the parts of an automobile. The words can also be connected to form the complete concept of a car.