PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Future Car: Fuel Cells
Investigate the innovations surrounding fuel cell technology and the potential use of hydrogen as an automobile power source. Generate hydrogen gas by splitting water in a process called electrolysis.
Read Works
Read Works: Racing Cars Can Go!
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Mario who makes a ramp while playing with his race cars. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Dream Machines
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about cars of the future. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
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The Auto Channel
Website contains the latest news, issues, road conditions, recalls, and reports for the car owner and auto industry.
The Guardian
Guardian: Robot Car: Streets Ahead in Cities of the Future
Review a futuristic, stackable, robotic car.
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Legal Guide for Immigrants to Maine
Comprehensive but easily understood legal guide for noncitizens in Spanish and English. Though directed to immigrants to Maine, the basic principles apply to immigrants to any state in the United States.
Schools of California Online Resources for Education
Score: Washington Elementary School: From Foot to Flight
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.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Chevy Volt It's Electric!
The costs and benefits of owning an electric or hybrid car will be evaluated in this lesson. By reading and researching the history of the production of electric cars, the lesson allows students to understand how this market has developed.
Stanford University
Stanford University: How Everyday Things Are Made
If you've ever wondered how things are made - products like candy, cars, airplanes, or bottles - or if you've been interested in manufacturing processes, like forging, casting, or injection molding, then you've come to the right place....
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Mit Technology Review: Tomorrow's Cars
A collection of articles about innovations in automotive technology. Titles include: Prying Open the Prius, Cheaper Fuel Cells, Better than Hybrids, and Free Power for Cars.
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Vocabulary Training Exercises
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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Motorline: Motorsport
Austrian Racing site in German with many images that can be navigated by beginners. Numerous links to images, games, screen savers, motorcycles, Formula 1 racing (Formel 1) and cars in general (Autowelt).
Starfall
Starfall: Things That Can Go
This interactive nonfiction ebook focuses on things that can go. Children can choose to read independently or listen to each sentence read to them.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: How Fast Can You Go?
Students will experience force and speed by constructing model cars in cooperative groups. The students will explore ways to move their cars at different speeds. Each group will do a PhotoStory describing their cars.This lesson plan was...
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The Conversation: Autonomous Cars: Five Reasons They Still Aren't on Our Roads
While the technology to enable a car to complete a journey without human input (what the industry calls "level 5 autonomy") might be advancing rapidly, producing a vehicle that can do so safely and legally is another matter. This article...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Vehicles
WLVT PBS 39 and PSEA present Write Now! video writing prompts, which are tools for educators and students to use in the classroom to encourage createive writing. This prompt asks: If you placed two different cars in a race, which one...
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Popular Mechanics: Technology
Popular Mechanics covers the latest in technology. Topics include computers, the Internet, audio, television, and more.
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Edmunds: Suspension Basics I: Shake, Rattle and Roll
This resource presents the first of a four part editorial on suspension importance and basics with information on modifications.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: Biographies: Henry Ford Biografia (Espanol)
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.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Car
Illustrated discussion of the first car in 1769, the first practical car by designer Karl Benz in 1885, and the invention of combustion engines.