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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Crafts for Kids

For Students 3rd - 5th
Choose from dozens of simple crafts including activities for the holidays, animal crafts and much more.
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NBC

Science of Innovation: Self Driving Cars

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial includes a video filmed at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, computer scientist Sebastian Thrun and his team of software engineers are creating a fleet of self-driving cars. His innovative approach to...
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Other

Upper Canada Village

For Students 9th - 10th
Ever want to know what life in Canada was like back in the 1860's? Well, look no further than this site! Information can be found on topics such as: daily life, communication, manufacturing, religion and more. Also be sure to check out...
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Lesson Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: How Transportation Transformed America: Going to Market

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This project investigates and examines the impact transportation has had on peoples' lives. We chose to compare and contrast the turn of the centuries. This instructional activity introduces primary documents, specifically visuals. We...
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Unit Plan
Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Transportation (Reading & Comprehending)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Wonderful, extensive site for Spanish-speaking ELLs about transportation and related topics designed to engage reading comprehension skills.
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Handout
Other

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (Iihs): Safety Belt Use Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
Hover over each state on this interactive map to see what its laws are regarding the enforcement of seat belt use.
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Website
Schools of California Online Resources for Education

Score: Washington Elementary School: From Foot to Flight

For Students 3rd - 5th
The history of transportation in the United States is at the click of the mouse for specific modes. Activities and glossary are included. Geared toward primary students in content and navigation.
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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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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Transportation: They Say We Had a Revolution (Part 2)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Advancements in transportation have played a key role in the growth of our nation. U.S.government policies have also had a considerable impact on the development of transport as we know it today. In this series of three lessons, the...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Department of Archives and History

Alabama Department of Archives and History: Changes in Transportation Over Time

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
The student will compare and contrast the different modes of transportation during the early 20th century and present-day America using historical photographs. Included are links to photos, a printable worksheet, and extension and...
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Handout
The Franklin Institute

Franklin Institute: The Case Files: History of Transportation Technologies

For Students 9th - 10th
A history of transportation technologies, and the individuals who led the way in developing and advancing new modes of transportation.
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Handout
Other

Conner Prairie: Road Through the Wilderness: The Making of the National Road

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on the building of the National Road and its historical significance.
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Other

Pioneer Yosemite History Center Online Tour: Wagons and Stagecoaches

For Students 9th - 10th
Travel back in time to see what the pioneers used for transportation and to do their daily work. Great pictures of wagons of the west including the chuck wagon, spring wagon, farm wagon, and freight wagon. There is a link at the bottom...
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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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Article
University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: Inventing the Riverboat

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion of Robert Fulton's and Henry Shreve's contribution to the evolution of the steamboat. Includes photos of early steamboats and some biographical information on Fulton. (Text is the actual radio transcript of a syndicated...
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Transportation: They Say We Had a Revolution (Part 3)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Advancements in transportation have played a key role in the growth of our nation. U.S. government policies have also had a considerable impact on the development of transport as we know it today. For this series of three lessons, the...
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Things That Can Go

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This interactive nonfiction ebook focuses on things that can go. Children can choose to read independently or listen to each sentence read to them.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Transportation to the Western Frontier

For Teachers 6th - 8th
There were several modes of transportation for early settlers to use when they moved to the west. Middle schoolers will research and document four modes of transportation using the Internet and print resources in the library.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Now and Then and Back Again: Study of Transportation

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
By using a slideshow presentation and a Conestoga wagon project, students will experience different ways people have conquered the human and social need for transportation in America. Students will begin by studying ancient and Native...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Let's Get Going!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
By doing this lesson the students will have the opportunity to explore transportation firsts. By exporing this information, the students will make a timeline charting the year when the forms of transportation were invented.This lesson...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Away We Go!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students will survey various classes about the type of transportation that delivers them to school. Students will then combine data and with the help of a teacher create a virtual graph. This lesson plan was created as a result of the...
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Activity
Energy4Me

Energy4me: Carbon Footprint

For Students 9th - 10th
After completing the first part of this activity, students will be able to explain individual carbon footprints and list the means for reducing them. The second part of this activity helps students to visualize climate as a system with...
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Bar Ty

For Students 9th - 10th
Modeling traffic data is important for urban planning, creating transportation systems, and even predicting how much foot traffic a retail store can expect in a given day. This genre of dynamic data science activities could be classified...
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Building the Erie Canal

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this lesson students learn how the Erie Canal changed the U.S. economy and influenced settlement patterns in the west.