PBS
Pbs Kids: Peg + Cat: Games: Race Car
In this game, pick a car, fill up the tank with fuel using two units at a time, race your car, and see who wins.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: American Racing: A Diversity of Innovation
American auto racing has a century long history of grass roots invention. From an American-European rivalry to uniquely American forms of racing, the history of racing includes business interests, enthusiastic fans, and alternative...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Nascar: About the Race Cars
All about NASCAR race cars including horsepower, weight, Busch, Nextel Cup, and Crafstman Truck Series cars.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Danica Patrick Biography: Race Car Driver
Kids learn about Danica Patrick's biography and her racing career. Fun facts about the race car driver.
Middle School Science
Middle School Science: Balloon Powered Race Cars
An idea developed by a physical science teacher who applied Newton's Laws of Motion in creating a balloon powered race car. Find simple objective, materials, rules, and procedures.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Jimmie Johnson: Nascar Race Car Driver
Learn about Jimmie Johnson and his NASCAR race car driving career. Five-time Sprint Cup Series champion.
Other
Car and Driver
Car and Driver Magazine details the latest news, features, shows, issues and tests of cars today.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Circular and Satellite Motion: Race Track Interactive
Apply forces to a race car in order to drive a lap around an oval track. The track becomes narrower with each of the three levels. Horizontal and vertical velocities are displayed, allowing students to make wise choices regarding the...
Arcademics
Arcademics: Drag Race
Get your race car to the finish line by answering the multiplication problems.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Mint Mobiles
Students design, build and test model race cars made from simple materials (lifesaver-shaped candies, plastic drinking straws, Popsicle sticks, index cards, tape) as a way to explore independent, dependent and control variables. They...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Biography: Nascar Race Car Driver
Kids learn about Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s biography and his racing career. Fun facts about the NASCAR driver.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Solar Racing
This is an extensive project in designing and building a solar-powered car model. Middle schoolers must make detailed calculations and design decisions about wheel size, gear ratio, how to get the most energy from the sun, air drag,...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: 4 Wheel Balloon Car
Create your own 4-wheel balloon cars with simple household items and race them across the floor.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: 2 Wheel Balloon Car
Make your own 2-wheel, air-power cars and race them or play games with them. Balloons and straws are them main components.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Balloon Car
Students will design, build, and race balloon-powered cars in this fun lesson that teaches about engineering design and kinetic and potential energy.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Science of Racing
Turning the corners is the limiting process for racing cars. Going straight is simply about speed, but making the turns faster than other cars is a real challenge. In this activity, we ask how does weight balance affect the turn radius...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Science of Racing: Newton Knew
For race car engineers, F = m a, is the backbone of the vast majority of calculations. The selection of gear ratios is one example. Investigate and create a mathematical model for the relationship between force, speed, mass, distance and...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Science of Racing: Time Laps
In this activity, you will create a picture of time and speed as they relate to changes in the weight of a radio controlled race car. This picture will be a graph - a mathematical model- that allows to you predict the speed of your radio...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Division Drag Race
On your mark. Get set. Go! Test your knowledge of division facts with this exciting multi-player race car game. Your car's speed is determined by how fast you find the quotients.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Science of Racing: Hitting the Mark
Since running a race car is VERY expensive, race engineers know a great deal about how speed, time and distance relate. In this activity, you will investigate the relationship between distance traveled, speed and elapsed time. You will...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Science of Racing: How Much Energy From Aa Batteries
Work output from any process comes at a price. That price is the energy input required to drive the process. A fact of reality (also called the Second Law of Thermodynamics) is that the input energy is always greater than the output...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Cars: Engineering for Efficiency
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)...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Nascar: List of Race Car Drivers
All about NASCAR drivers. List of the drivers with a small bio on each.
Arcademics
Arcademics: Drag Race Division
With this resource students review division while playing this multi-player learning game. Student power their car by answering the division problems correctly. The speed of the car is determined by how fast the learner answers the problem.
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