Curated OER
Brain Teaser - Elevator
In this logic worksheet, students solve a word problem using logic about using an elevator to get to certain floors. Students complete 1 problem.
Curated OER
Fire Safety Vocabulary Wheel
In this fire safety worksheet, students examine a vocabulary wheel involving 4 key terms associated with fire safety: prevention, elevator, escape and drop.
Curated OER
Strange Elevators: Creating and Extending Patterns
Second graders solve problems by recognizing patterns, creating patterns and extending them. They compare and contrast patterns.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Elevator Installers and Repairers
This resource has detailed information on the elevator repair career field. It has sections on the Nature of Work, Working Conditions, Employment, Training Job Outlook, Earnings, Related Occupations, and Sources of Additional Information.
Language Guide
Language Guide: La Cuidad
These colorful pictures and interactive vocabulary words cover things you might see when walking through a city. The correct Spanish pronunciation is heard when moving the mouse over each illustration.
PBS
Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Elisha Otis
A biography of the man who invented the elevator.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Ding! Going Up? Elevators and Engineering
Students create model elevator carriages and calibrate them, similar to the work of design and quality control engineers. Students use measurements from rotary encoders to recreate the task of calibrating elevators for a high-rise...
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Relative Motion on Elevator Model
What would happen if you played with a yo-yo in a moving elevator? This simulated exercise lets users observe what happens from two perspectives, one being the person playing with the toy and the other being on the outside of a glass...
National Inventors Hall of Fame
National Inventors Hall of Fame: Elisha Graves Otis
Brief article about Otis, the developer of the electric elevator brake which made skyscraper construction so practical.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Inventor of the Week: Elisha Otis and the Elevator
This site, which is provided for by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gives a very brief article on the developer of the early elevator. Images are included as well.
Curated OER
Language Guide: La Cuidad
These colorful pictures and interactive vocabulary words cover things you might see when walking through a city. The correct Spanish pronunciation is heard when moving the mouse over each illustration.