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Numbers

For Students 4th
In this problem solving activity, 4th graders study a table with data involving how many cars were washed each day of the week. Students answer 2 short answer questions. Students utilize the process of addition to solve 2 additional...
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Enzo Ferrari

For Students 4th - 6th
In this Enzo Ferrari activity, students read about the life of the race car driver, then complete a variety of related comprehension activities. An answer key is included.
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Planning a Trip from Vancouver BC

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners plan a weekend car trip to Seattle Washington. They leave Friday afternoon and arrive back Sunday afternoon.
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Freight Train Activity Card

For Students Pre-K - K
In this reading learning exercise, students respond to the book Freight Trains by completing an activity at home with a parent. Students cut out the colored picture of 8 train cars depicted in the book. Students put them in order, lining...
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How Far Will It Roll?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students construct a car with the longest roll using a ramp. They construct Lego cars, modify the wheel sizes and car configurations to evaluate which car design rolls the longest distance, develop a graph, and complete a worksheet.
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Running With Momentum

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers discuss the conservation of momentum in a collision between two bumper cars. They are given the equation for momentum. Students then solve problems using the equation for momentum.
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Little Red Corvette

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars investigate the acceleration of a car.  In this acceleration of a car lesson, students make a scatter plot of corvette acceleration data.  Young scholars find a model to fit the data by taking the integral of the curve...
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Distance (Answer to March 30, 1988 Problem)

For Students 9th - 12th
In this distance activity, students read a story problem and write an equation to fit the situation.  Students determine the distance between two signs based upon the speed of a car.  This one-page activity contains 1 problem.  The...
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Speed and Collisions Administration Procedures

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate speed as an important variable regarding force of an impact. Students roll a car down a ramp and into a block of wood. The distance the car travels, the time until impact and the distance the block moves are...
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Alternative Energy Part II - Lesson Eight of Eight - Energy Conversion and Propulsion

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students investigate the results of different propulsion methods. In this propulsion lesson, students measure the distance a test toy car goes using different types of propulsion. They record the distances in data tables before...
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Potential Energy: How is It Related to Kinetic Energy?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore kinetic and potential energy. In this energy lesson, students launch toys cars from ramps in order to examine the relationship between potential energy and kinetic energy. Students collect data and graph the results.
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An Exploration of Automotive Design

For Teachers 9th - 12th
learners research varied aspects of car design, and create a new design for the exterior body of a car. Students conduct Internet research, respond to writing prompts, and analyze, evaluate and synthesize information from multiple...
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Method for Teaching the Blending of Sounds: Train Technique

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore the blending of individual sounds to make words and, using visuals and manipulatives, equate this process to the hooking up of railroad cars to make a train. They link individual letters/sounds to make short words.
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Oil Lesson Plan- Automobile Insurance

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the importance of having car insurance and the effects of not having it in the case of an accident. They use an internet website to participate in different activities. Students conduct research while answering...
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The Spin Doctor Is In

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers are given the difintion of translational motion, which is the object in motion stays in motion. If you are in a car and the car stops, you keep moving. They then discuss rotational motion, which is a spinning object...
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Worksheet 16

For Students 6th - 8th
In this math worksheet, students compute the total distance traveled for a car moving in a straight line at 45 mph for 2 hours. Then they compute the distance for a car moving along a curved path at 45 mph for 2 hours.
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Solving Practical Problems with Heats of Combustion

For Students 9th - 12th
In this combustion worksheet, high schoolers calculate kJ obtained from combustion or the kJ used to fuel a car. Students use the heat of combustion of sugar and fat to determine the energy needed by the body. This worksheet has 1 short...
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Air Pollution

For Students 9th - 12th
In this pollution learning exercise, students read about how air pollution is created and the harmful products that come out of a car exhaust. Then students complete 9 short answer questions.
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Being Flexible

For Students 6th - 9th
In this flexibility worksheet, students read a paragraph about a soda can that exploded in a car. They choose from a list of options the possibilities for the can exploding. They practice using flexible thinking skills.
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Mechanical Monsters

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students experiment try to build a Lego car.  In this physical science lesson students present and demonstrate the vehicle that they constructed. 
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Ratios

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Learners explore the concept of ratios. In this ratios lesson plan, students use matchbox cars and models of spaceships to explore ratios. Learners determine scale for the above mentioned objects in this lecture style lesson plan.
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Imagination Express

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students create an artistic response to the book, The Polar Express. In this creative writing lesson, students read the book and visualize an imaginary journey they would like to go on. Students create a train car from construction paper...
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Mobility: Fuel for Change

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers determine how to lower the reliance on petroleum-based fuel. In this environmental stewardship lesson, students create concept cars for the future that using renewable energy.
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Junkyard Wars: Mechanical Monsters

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars examine slope and build a Lego car that can take a steep slope. In this mechanics lesson plan students build a car and demonstrate them in class and describe what they did.

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