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Imagination Express

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students create an artistic response to the book, The Polar Express. In this creative writing lesson, students read the book and visualize an imaginary journey they would like to go on. Students create a train car from construction paper...
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Mobility: Fuel for Change

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers determine how to lower the reliance on petroleum-based fuel. For this environmental stewardship lesson, students create concept cars for the future that using renewable energy.
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Junkyard Wars: Mechanical Monsters

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine slope and build a Lego car that can take a steep slope. In this mechanics lesson students build a car and demonstrate them in class and describe what they did.
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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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Winter Survival Kit

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders construct a winter emergency kit for their parents' car and list five things to do or not to do when stranded in a car during the winter.
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Reading and Consolidating a Grammar Point

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students work together in pairs to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of electric cars. They read an article about the new technology in cars and answer comprehension questions. They practice the present perfect simple grammar as...
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Naming Numbers Through Hundred Millions And Comma Placement

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders name numbers through the hundred millions place and demonstrate where to correctly place the commas. Using a car place value line, they park cars with numbers on them in the correct place value spot. Students also read...
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Velocity and Acceleration

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders look at local speed limits and traffic controls and see if they are reasonable. They plot the displacement and time to represent velocity, develop a plan for improving the current system, and organize experimental...
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Financial Planning

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students research possible careers. They determine typical starting income for the career. Using collected information, students develop a budget for their starting income. Students consider car payments and research the process of...
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Verbs: Using the Simple Present Tense - Everyday Activities

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this verb tense and sequencing instructional activity, students show the order in which the given actions happen. They look at a clip art picture and read a phrase before ordering the list of actions. They work with things that happen...
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Using the Simple Present: Everyday Activities, Page 1

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this order of action worksheet, students read about five actions taken while waking up, making eggs, or driving a car. Students number the events to show the order in which the actions happen.
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Budgeting and Travel

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners plan a trip to the Olympics.  For this middle school mathematics lesson, students are given a worksheet describing the cost of necessities for their trip.  Learners are given a balance and must purchase airline ticket,...
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Measuring Acceleration

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create an accelerometer and take measurements of acceleration in a moving car. They study the car speeding up in a straight line, slowing in a straight line and curving at constant speed. They prepare a lab report showing...
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Calculating Interest

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students solve interest problems for bank accounts and loans to gain real life experience. They also review newspapers and find a car they wish to purchase then are given a rate and time of loan.
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Velocity

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars determine the average speed of a toy car as it travels six different distances set up by Students. Three trials are done for each distance. The only requirements is that the longest distance must be at least three times...
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Henry Ford

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study Henry Ford and his invention of the assembly line. They write about the differences between cars of the past and the cars they see in their community today. They take a fieldtrip to the Henry Ford Mansion.
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Action and Reaction

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students experiment with Newton's Third Law of Motion. In this physics and motion lesson, students complete two experiments to illustrate force and its equal and opposite reaction. Students first work in pairs to exert an equal force on...
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The Witch of Goingsnake

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students interpret a proverb and read examples of oral histories.  In this The Witch of Goingsnake lesson, students read two samples of oral history and discuss quotations from each.  Students read "Calf Roper's Bandit Car" and...
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"L" Stands for Elevated

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students play a trivia game to learn more about the Chicago public transportation system. In this transportation lesson plan, students also create an "L" car, and write advertising slogans for Chicago's elevated trains.
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Answer the Questions Based on Venn Diagram

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this venn diagram worksheet, students answer five questions about ways children get to school. The venn diagram has three overlapping circles and lists three ways students may get to school (walk, bike and car).
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Designing Objects

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students customize either a watch, bicycle, or car using the templates provided inspired by Keith Haring. For this customizing lesson plan, students explore product design and development.
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Tornado Chasers

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore how tornadoes are the most violent storms on earth. Raging at speeds of up to 300 miles per hour, their awesome winds can flip cars through the air like leaves, snap trees like matchsticks, and reduce entire towns to...
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Reality Check

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders practice living on a budget. They must plan for rent, utilities, and food and determine if they can afford the luxuries of a phone, car, gas, movies, clothes, etc., using a newspaper to gather their information.
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Here It Comes, There It Goes!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use an ordinary toy to reveal the Doppler effect. The connection is also made to moving cars, and to the shifting of the lines in the absorption or emission spectrum when the distance between a star and Earth is increasing or...

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