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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Cars: Engineering for Efficiency

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students learn how the aerodynamics and rolling resistance of a car affect its energy efficiency through designing and constructing model cars out of simple materials. As the little cars are raced down a tilted track (powered by gravity)...
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Unit Plan
Study Languages

Study Spanish: Subjunctive: Spelling Changes

For Students 9th - 10th
Fantastic explanation of spelling changes in the Spanish language and their effect upon conjugations in the present subjunctive. Verb infinitives that end in -car, -gar, and -zar are among those that are considered. A quiz at the end of...
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Handout
Other

Lansing Community College: Career Facts for Collision Repair

For Students 9th - 10th
With this resource, explore career facts about the field of auto body work and collision repair. Topics include salary, essential skills, and training requirements.
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Activity
Other

Insurance Information Institute

For Students 9th - 10th
The Insurance Information Institute provides answers to your everyday insurance questions. This site can also be viewed in Spanish.
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Unit Plan
Study Languages

Study Spanish: Preterite Part 4

For Students 9th - 10th
Great introduction to verbs with spelling changes in the preterite tense. A quiz at the end of the lesson tests the student's mastery of these conjugations.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Getting a Car

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a family decision to purchase a car. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: Traveling by Car

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how the Model T automobile changed public transportation and how the national highway system was the rest of the story about America's love affair with the automobile.
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Other

Vocabulary Training Exercises

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains multiple vocabulary tests of 100 words each that drill word sets from animals to words of the soul. It also contains grammar quizzes and a personalized test generator.
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Interactive
Chateau Meddybemps

Chateau Meddybemps: Matching Parts

For Students 3rd - 5th
At this interactive site match fronts and backs of cars and trucks. You can put together many interesting combinations, but there is only one correct match.
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Website
Environduck

Enviroduck: Driving Techniques to Conserve Gas

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn ways to conserve gas by driving and maintaining your car and tires.
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Website
Environduck

Enviroduck: Green Transportation Electric and Fuel Cell Cars

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how electric cars and fuel cell vehicles cn be greener for the environment.
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Website
Environduck

Enviroduck: Math and Chemistry Behind Co2 Per Gallon of Gas Calculations

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how CO2 per gallon of gas is calculated using science, math, and chemistry.
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Website
Environduck

Enviroduck: Green Transportation Environmentally Friendly Transport

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how green transportation such as cars, autos, busses, and trains can help our environment.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Practice Driver's Exam

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a practice driver's test that can be used in Driver's Ed classes. There are 25 questions on this test. This particular test is from materials found on the website: DMV.org. If these questions...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Safety

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explores safety situations. In the chart students are asked to decide if specific situations are or are not safe. There are integrated video clips from UnitedStreaming.com which explore...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: The History of Automobiles: Comprehension Strategies

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson targets the history of the automobile in three major phases of its development.
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Website
NASA

Nasa: The Space Place: Power Up With Tortillas!

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site from NASA provides The Space Place which gives a great explanation of energy sources for young readers using the space shuttle, cars, and our human body as examples.
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Website
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: Biographies: Henry Ford Biografia (Espanol)

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief biography of Henry Ford. Ford's great ideas were to improve the inventions around him and to produce them very efficiently. Good links to pictures and other information.
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Website
Environduck

Enviroduck: Green Transportation Alternative Fuels for Cars and Vehicles

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how alternative fuels such as ethanol can help make cars and vehicles greener for the environment.
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Website
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: English (Esl) Label Me! Printouts

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Over 100 handouts with answer sheets you can print and use to help build English vocabulary. Numerous topics and themes are covered: everyday words, math terms, seasonal and holiday words, geographical terms, animals, opposites, parts of...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Cnn: Car

For Students 9th - 10th
Red car
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Curated OER

Image: See Caption Below

For Students 9th - 10th
Who invented the automobile? While there is no simple answer to this question, this site does shed some light on the topic. The images, related links, and further reading supplement the content here by the the library of congress.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Image: See Caption Below

For Students 9th - 10th
Who invented the automobile? While there is no simple answer to this question, this site does shed some light on the topic. The images, related links, and further reading supplement the content here by the the library of congress.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Image: See Caption Below

For Students 9th - 10th
Who invented the automobile? While there is no simple answer to this question, this site does shed some light on the topic. The images, related links, and further reading supplement the content here by the the library of congress.