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Read Works

Read Works: Traffic Lights

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about traffic lights and how to use them to cross a street. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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NASA

Nasa Smartskies: Line Up With Math: Math Based Decisions in Air Traffic Control

For Students 9th - 10th
In association with NASA, LineUp With Math presents problem sets which 'enable students to explore and apply decision-making and reasoning skills, specifically to resolve distance-rate-time conflicts in air traffic control'. An...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Traffic Lights

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn about traffic lights and their importance in maintaining public safety and order. Using a Parallax Basic Stamp 2 microcontroller, students work in teams on the engineering challenge to build a traffic light with a specific...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Traffic Jam

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson challenges young scholars to solve congestion and traffic delays in an intersection through modifying traffic signal operation. Students are required to collect traffic data, optimize the timing of a traffic signal via the...
Handout
Other

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Bicycles

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A very extensive site from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that deals with all aspects of bicycle safety. Click on the menu under Useful Information to find activities and materials for kids, information for parents,...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Real Life Real World Activity: Air Traffic Control

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will model and solve air traffic control problems with geometry software. The Cabri Jr. application will be used to construct a model of the problem situation and concepts from trigonometry and proportions are...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Writing Linear Functions With Traffic Tickets

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use traffic tickets to demonstrate their understanding of writing linear functions.
Interactive
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Approximate Speed in Traffic Challenge

For Students 9th - 10th
This game is designed to help students use mental math to find the average speed of traffic. A video which helps explain the program is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZV-RmyPc90&feature=youtu.be
Article
Other

National Highway Traffic Safety: Social Cognition

For Students 9th - 10th
This page discusses social cognition related to traffic safety strategies and youth characteristics. Some topics discussed are attribution, social schemata, and scripts.
Website
Other

Aaa Foundation for Traffic Safety: Research

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of reports of studies of driving safety. It includes information about the crash risk of cell phone use and the use of in-vehicle technology among older adults.
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What's Up With All This Traffic?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Expanding on the topic of objects in motion covering Newton's laws of motion, acceleration and velocity, which are taught starting in third grade, students are introduced to new concepts of speed, density, level of service (LOS) (quality...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: A Future Beyond Traffic Gridlock

For Students 9th - 10th
Bill Ford is a car guy- his great-grandfather was Henry Ford, and he grew up inside the massive Ford Motor Co. So when he worries about cars' impact on the environment, and about our growing global gridlock problem, it's worth a listen....
Handout
Other

Manual of Traffic Signs

For Students 9th - 10th
Listing of the most commonly used traffic signs in the United States. The signs are listed by type (regulatory, warning, marker, guide) and sub-type (R1, R2, etc.)
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Using Traffic Data to Reinforce Inflection Points in Calculus

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Real data from the morning rush on the Chicago expressways is the basis for a piece-wise regression. The students' success depends on their understanding of inflection points. Students need to use the Select command to split the data...
Handout
Other

Labor Market Information: Shipping, Receiving and Traffic Clerks

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Great site for detailed information on the career of shipping and receiving clerks. Read about their jobs, working conditions, wages, job outlook, training, and more.
Website
Other

Stadt Koln

For Students 9th - 10th
A great web site, the official site of the city of Koln (Cologne) contains a wealth of information about the city: facts and figures, its history, culture, geography, economy, sights, tourism, sports, and free time activity--not to...
Website
Other

The Boeing Company

For Students 9th - 10th
The official website of Boeing features information about commercial airplanes, military aircraft and missile systems, space and communications, Phantom Works, air traffic management, Boeing Capital Corp, connexion by Boeing, and more.
Graphic
Curated OER

A View on Cities: Boston: Traffic Tunnel Administration Building

For Students 9th - 10th
Traffic Tunnel Administration Building (Boston)
Graphic
Curated OER

A View on Cities: Venice: Gondola Traffic Jam

For Students 9th - 10th
Gondola traffic jam (Venice)
Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Introduction to Transportation Engineering

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a course introducing students to the importance of highway transportation. Webpage includes forty-one lectures from a professor at the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning. Lectures vary...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Up to Speed

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson builds upon the familiar d=rt formula for distance to include elements of acceleration as well. The lesson is framed in the context of traffic flow theory, but makes some very...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Making Streets Safer

For Teachers 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about traffic lights and how they make streets safer. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Transportation Engineering Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a follow up to a course about transportation engineering. Webpage includes forty lectures from a professor at the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning . Lectures vary in length and cover...
Graphic
Other

Environmental Atlas Berlin/traffic Hydrocarbons

For Students 9th - 10th
Graphics and text in English for airborne hydrocarbons.

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