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Illustrative Mathematics

Battery Charging

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Your class will be very interested in the results of this activity. How long does it take a MP3 and video game player to charge?  Sam only has an hour and the MP3 player only has 40% of its battery life left. Plus, his video player is...
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Curated OER

Comparing Light Bulbs

For Teachers K - 8th
An average home produces twice as many emissions as an average car. Teach your class how to reduce energy consumption by replacing standard incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs. Perform an experiment to compare...
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Worksheet
Education.com

Cut-N-Paste Map to School

For Students Pre-K - 1st
How do you get to school? Using the second page of the worksheet, you can draw a map of your route to school and paste on images of a scooter, bus, car, or feet.
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Visa

Dream Big: Money and Goals

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Whether their objective is independent living, going to college, or buying a car, pupils will participate in discussions and complete worksheets to gain an understanding of how short- and long-term goals play a large role in helping...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Wheels Go Around: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 7)

For Teachers K Standards
Wheels go around is the theme of the plethora of activities to aid in the language fluency of your scholars in this unit of ESL lessons. Learners can take part in a grand conversation focused on wheels, make their own steering wheel,...
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Assessment
Mathematics Assessment Project

Journey

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Drive home math concepts with an engaging task. Learners follow a verbal description to fill in a table and create a distance-time graph representing a car journey. They then answer questions by interpreting the graph.
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Teach Engineering

A Simple Solution for the Circus

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Class members are challenged to design a device that will move a circus elephant into a train car. Groups brainstorm ideas that use simple machines to load the elephant. They then choose one of their ideas, sketch a plan, and present it...
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Activity
101 Questions

Ferris Wheel

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Around and around you'll go! Learners analyze the periodic nature of a Ferris wheel. Using a trigonometric function, they make predictions about the location of a specific car at the end of the ride and its total trips around the circle.
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Roald Dahl

The Twits - Mrs Twit Gets a Stretching

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
A cork, a rubber snake, and a bucket of mud may not seem like the best materials for washing a car, but they are in The Twits. The fifth instructional activity in an 11-part unit designed to accompany The Twits by Roald Dahl has readers...
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Concord Consortium

You Are What You Drive

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
Grab the wheel in learning about functions. A short performance task challenges young mathematicians to develop a function that describes the cars eight people drive. They consider whether the inverse of the function exists. If not, they...
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Penguin Books

An Educator's Guide to Counting by 7s

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
Everyone takes a different journey through grief. A series of lesson plans for the novel Counting by 7s introduces readers to the main character who loses her parents in a car crash. Discussion questions and writing prompts combine...
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Curated OER

Buying a New Car

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars locate and compare the costs and options available of three comparable compact, midsize, or luxury automobiles. They utilize websites and a worksheet imbedded in this plan.
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Curated OER

Media/Citizenship: Speed 1

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students investigate media images of cars and speed. They examine drivers' atitudes to speed by completing an activity sheet and responding to press reports about speeding drivers.
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Curated OER

Can a Christian Drive an Expensive Car

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Young scholars decide whether or not they feel that a Christian could drive an expensive car.  In this Christian values lesson, students discuss their views on a Christian having luxury items such as an expensive car.  Young scholars...
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Curated OER

4 Steps to Road Safety

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars identify the "4 Steps for Kids" and how they can stay safer. For this important rules lesson, students take measurements and refer to a chart to identify their Safety Seat Number.  Young scholars also discuss safety rules...
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Curated OER

Race to the Eating Line

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate the steps in writing a newspaper sports article and utilizd the information to report their class car race results. The racing cars are built out of vegetables and fruit and entered into the class competition,...
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Curated OER

Wheelies

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students design wheels for a coaster car to travel varying terrain. In this motion and friction lesson, students discuss friction and motion and test wooden wheels on a track. Students then brainstorm how to increase friction and bring...
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Curated OER

CO2 Dragster Challenge CO2 Dragster Challenge

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders construct a car out of a block of basswood.  In this car lesson students research, design and construct their own cars.
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Curated OER

Safety Seats

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students identify the different types of car seats. In this adult health lesson, students describe the proper way of restraining a child in the car. They solve real life scenarios given in class.
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Curated OER

Carshop!

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Pupils explore the concept of interest. In this interest lesson, students shop for cars and determine the payments and interest rates for various cars. Pupils use various websites to research cars and interest rates for car loans....
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Curated OER

Toddler's Delight

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Pupils are challenged to design a toy or something that can attach to a toddler's car seat to help distract them during long car trips. Students research toddler toys prior to beginning the design process in order to determine the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The First Road Trip, Parts 1 and 2

For Students 5th - 6th
In this reading comprehension activity, students read a three-paragraph fictional passage about the first engine car, They answer four short-essay questions about this passage. Road Trip, Part 2 contains a six-paragraph story, eight...
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Curated OER

Rocket Activity

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Pupils explore Newton's Second Law of Motion. In this rocket activity lesson, students experiment with Newton's Second Law of Motion as they use a slingshot device to force a car to move.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Do the Research! Henry Ford

For Students 4th - 6th
In this Henry Ford worksheet, students research information about the inventor of mass produced cars. Students write the answers to 4 short answer essay questions.

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