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Walk Around the Block

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders participate in walking a route in a neighborhood with parent volunteers in order to stress the importance of looking and listening for moving cars. They take this "field trip
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The Light Inside the Tunnel

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students work to improve their programming skills by programming model cars to drive through a tunnel, turn on its headlights and then extinguish the lights as the car exits the tunnel.
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Auburn Cord Dusenberg Field Trip

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders compare two different vehicles and determine why the cars are designed differently. They write four facts learned from the field trip in their science journals including a fact about how force affects the performance of the...
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Newton's Laws of Motion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners perform three activities that each demonstrate one of Newton's Laws of Motion. They use a ramp and toy car to demonstrate inertia, calculate acceleration due to gravity, then use a medicine ball and rolling chair to demonstrate...
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Carpool

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars observe general and personal space. They scatter in general space and students with hoops are cars, those with pinnies are police officers. Everyone else is a pedestrian. If tagged, the pedestrian must complete five...
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ESOL Transportation and Travel

For Teachers Higher Ed
Pupils identify required documents related to transportation (driver's license, insurance card, registration, passport). They discuss and categorize the following documents needed for local and or international travel; driver's license,...
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Newton's 2nd Law

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discuss Newton's Second Law of Motion, and the acceleration of fast and slow moving objects. They experiment with items with different masses to determine the effect mass has on acceleration using a toy car. They complete...
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Vehicles

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students develop appropriate vocabulary for identifying types of vehicles. After viewing pictures of automobiles, students work to create a brief, accurate description of the vehicle using proper vocabulary and grammar. Students then...
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Drive-In Multiplication

For Students 4th - 6th
In this multiplication worksheet, students read about a mechanic's list of cars scheduled to have tires changed. They also see a chart outlining that week's work. Students then answer the 7 questions regarding the mechanic's week of work.
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Travel to Olympics by Public Transport

For Students 4th - 6th
In this transportation learning exercise, students learn about the importance of taking public transportation to the 2012 Olympics. Students analyze a table that includes the stadiums and seating capacities. They then calculate how many...
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Speed Trails

For Students 9th - 11th
In this Algebra I/Algebra II worksheet, students conduct an experiment with toy cars in order to calculate and compare average, instantaneous, and constant speed.  The two page worksheet contains three questions.  Answers are not included. 
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Investigating Motion, Forces, and Energy Lab Book

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders create their own experiements using toy trucks, cars or balls to measure the time it takes two of them to travel 5 meters, as well as at each 1 meter interval. They make use computers to make a time/distance graph and...
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Sailing Through Bernoulli

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students participate in a class discussion about Bernoulli's principle while looking at cross-sections of an airplane wing, and discussing the sail on a sailboat and the spoiler on a race car.
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Ultimate Ride Coaster Deluxe

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders describe the energy transformations as cars travel over a roller coaster. They explain the principle of conservation of energy as it relates to a roller coaster ride. The integration of technology is done using educational...
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Pounds of Pollution

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine pollutants and investigate air pollution emitted by a car in a year.  In this air pollution lesson students complete an activity and make calculations. 
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Social Studies: When in Rome...

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students conduct Internet research on selected countries. They simulate a business trip requiring airplane flights, car rentals, and hotel reservations. They present their virtual trips in written reports after sharing their findings...
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It's a Crash Test, Dummy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the internet to research air bags in cars and trucks. In groups, they discover air bags history and the safety issues surrounding them. They create their own design of a new air bag and test it using a raw egg in...
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Venta Y Comprea De Vehculos

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine and read advertisements related to cars. Using the ads, they recognize prices, telephone numbers, content and the target audience of the ad. They create their own advertisement using appropriate vocabulary and share them...
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Speeding into Fluency

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice reading different materials to increase their fluency. Individually, they are given a race car and they move their car forward depending how well they have read different excerpts. To end the lesson, they take time...
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Traveling Vocabulary

For Students 6th - 7th
In this ESL traveling vocabulary activity, students read 12 sentences that have a missing word; all pertain to travel by train, airplane or car. Students choose the correct word from 4 possible choices.
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Adjectives

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this adjectives worksheet, students copy the sentences and add in adjectives to make the sentence more interesting. Students then write 5 adjectives to describe the following items: racing car, teddy bear, sword, teapot, cottage,...
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Monster Magnet Rally

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the properties of the N and S poles on a magnet. They attach small bar magnets to the top of "match box" cars and attempt to crash them into each other. They each write a summary describing their findings.
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Media/Citizenship: Speed 3

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students examine data about the effects of speed in car accidents. They create their own media campaign about safety while driving. They share their ideas with the class.
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Peak Performance

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Pupils design and build a car that is capable of traveling across the floor quickly, and also up a steep ramp.

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