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Automobile in American Life and Society

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive website that looks at all aspects of the automobile in American life. Teacher and student resources are included.
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Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering

For Students 9th - 10th
The Loughborough University Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering provides a site that the student can learn all there is to know about degrees, research, publications, etc. in the field of automotive engineering at the...
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Automotive Engineering on Line

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the online magazine for the Society of Automotive Engineers. Allows the student to look up information on the field of automotive engineering.
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Car and Driver

For Students 9th - 10th
Car and Driver Magazine details the latest news, features, shows, issues and tests of cars today.
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Home Page for the Society of Automotive Engineers (Sae)

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the home site of the Society of Automotive Engineers. This is the professional organization for those in the automotive engineering field.
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The Henry Ford

The Henry Ford Showroom of Automotive History

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about automotive history as you browse the collection of The Henry Ford Museum. Enter the showroom to see a complete profile on some of the most important cars ever made, from the 1896 quadricycle to the 1986 Taurus.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: The People's Highway: Route 66: 1930s 1940s

For Students 9th - 10th
This section of the America on the Move exhibition explores the substance behind the myth of Route 66, telling the stories of real people who made their living on or beside the road and who traveled on the fabled highway.
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Automotive Emissions and the Greenhouse Effect

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a laboratory activity in which students will compare the amount of carbon dioxide in four different sources of gas and determine the carbon dioxide contribution from automobiles. They test ambient air, human exhalation,...
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The Henry Ford

Henry Ford Museum: Smart Fun Online: Model T Road Trip

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This collection of lesson plans and activities are for fourth through eighth graders. Lessons revolve around the automobile and its place in American society, the Model T Ford, and Henry Ford.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Tired Weight

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how the air pressure in tires can be used to determine the weight of an automobile.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: A Biography of America: The Twenties 1913 1929

For Students 9th - 10th
How would you describe the 1920s? The decade was called the Roaring Twenties, the beginning of modern America. Take a look at the economic prosperity, prohibition, popular culture, and the invention of the automobile, then you decide, a...
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Ohio History Central

Ohio History Central: Charles F. Kettering

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief biography of Charles F. Kettering talks about the many inventions he developed for the new automobile industry.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Transportation: They Say We Had a Revolution (Part 2)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Advancements in transportation have played a key role in the growth of our nation. U.S.government policies have also had a considerable impact on the development of transport as we know it today. For this series of three lessons, the...
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John Wiley & Sons

John Wiley & Sons: Henry Ford and the Model T

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from John Wiley & Sons examines Henry Ford and the Model T. It provides an in-depth description of how Henry Ford solved production challenges and worker shortages. Read about the other automobile companies that survived in...
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PBS

Pbs News Hour Extra: Choosing an Automobile, Understanding Alternative Fuels

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan encourages learners to look at alternative methods of fuel and explore the various impacts each has on the environment.
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Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: Traveling by Car

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how the Model T automobile changed public transportation and how the national highway system was the rest of the story about America's love affair with the automobile.
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PBS

Pbs: Ford Installs First Moving Assembly Line

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at the history of the assembly line discusses how the use of this tool was initiated by Henry Ford in his Automobile plant.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Future Car: Fuel Cells

For Teachers 5th - 8th
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.
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McREL International

Mc Rel: Trains, Planes, and Automobiles

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
McRED offers a lesson to help students understand what mode of transportation is most efficient to ship goods.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Henry Ford and the Model T

For Students 9th - 10th
Henry Ford created the Model T car, the first affordable automobile, and in 1913 introduced mass production of automobiles.
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: The Invention of the Teenager

For Students 5th - 8th
It's hard to believe that there was not a phase known as adolescence until the 1920s. See how child labor laws and the automobile combined to spawn the teenager.
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State Farm Insurance: Teen Driver Safety Website

For Students 9th - 10th
Information and advice for teen drivers, especially with regard to problem behaviors-texting, drinking, aggressive driving, distracted driving-and the laws that regulate automobile safety, such as seat belt requirements, cell phone use...
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HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Purchasing Your First Car

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This effective lesson plan has students searching the internet for an automobile which fits their specific criteria.
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Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Automobile Routes of New York and Vicinities to the North, 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from the 1920 Automobile Club of Rochester showing automobile routes of New York and vicinities to the north. The map shows route numbers, mileages and terminals only. The inset map shows the automobile routes between New York City...

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