Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Science of Racing: Hitting the Mark
Since running a race car is VERY expensive, race engineers know a great deal about how speed, time and distance relate. In this activity, you will investigate the relationship between distance traveled, speed and elapsed time. You will...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Experiment Problem in Kinematics: How Much Does It Take to Win the Race?
Students are presented with two cars that have different constant speeds and that will race each other. They then determine which object will win the race, as well as how much time elapses between the objects crossing the finish line.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Science of Racing: How Much Energy From Aa Batteries
Work output from any process comes at a price. That price is the energy input required to drive the process. A fact of reality (also called the Second Law of Thermodynamics) is that the input energy is always greater than the output...
Other
National Renewable Energy Laboratory: Junior Solar Car Competition
A design challenge through which students design and construct a solar-powered model car to compete in a road race. Students work in teams using the engineering design process to select the optimal gear ratio and components.
Other
Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
Since its first race in 1975, the Grand Prix Association of Long Beach has grown into a multi-dimensional organization dedicated to bring the best in motorsports to Southern California. This site has news, schedules, and racing information.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: Math Car Racing (Easy Subtraction Game)
FunBrain's easy subtraction facts game lets players race cars, fueled by correct answers, around a track.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: Math Car Racing (Division Facts)
FunBrain's division facts game lets players race cars, fueled by correct answers, around a track.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout by Victor Appletone
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout, an adventure multi-chapter book from 1910, written by the ghost writer Victor Appleton. In this book's quest, the main...
ESPN Internet Ventures
Espn: Formula 1 News
At this site you'll find the latest information on car racing. There are many interesting links, including photos.
Doina Popovici
Math Play: Multiply Within 100 Math Racing Game
Think you know your multiplication facts? Try this fast pace game where you race your car by multiplying numbers that are within 100.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Mouse Trap Racing in the Computer Age!
Students design, build and evaluate a spring-powered mouse trap racer. For evaluation, teams equip their racers with an intelligent brick from a LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Education Base Set and a HiTechnic acceleration sensor. They use...
PBS
Pbs: For Gold and Glory
A companion site to the PBS documentary on African American Charlie Wiggins, who set up a national auto racing league for African American drivers.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Nascar: About the Race Cars
All about NASCAR race cars including horsepower, weight, Busch, Nextel Cup, and Crafstman Truck Series cars.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Danica Patrick Biography: Race Car Driver
Kids learn about Danica Patrick's biography and her racing career. Fun facts about the race car driver.
Middle School Science
Middle School Science: Balloon Powered Race Cars
An idea developed by a physical science teacher who applied Newton's Laws of Motion in creating a balloon powered race car. Find simple objective, materials, rules, and procedures.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Jimmie Johnson: Nascar Race Car Driver
Learn about Jimmie Johnson and his NASCAR race car driving career. Five-time Sprint Cup Series champion.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Biography: Nascar Race Car Driver
Kids learn about Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s biography and his racing career. Fun facts about the NASCAR driver.
Courseware Solutions
Got Kids Games: Easy Pronoun Car Rally
Play a racing game by choosing the correct pronoun to complete each sentence. Be careful! Too many errors will cause you to crash.
Other
Motorline: Motorsport
Austrian Racing site in German with many images that can be navigated by beginners. Numerous links to images, games, screen savers, motorcycles, Formula 1 racing (Formel 1) and cars in general (Autowelt).
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Mint Mobiles
Students design, build and test model race cars made from simple materials (lifesaver-shaped candies, plastic drinking straws, Popsicle sticks, index cards, tape) as a way to explore independent, dependent and control variables. They...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Duryea Automobile
From the Smithsonian collection of early automobiles. Read about the Duryea automobile and how it worked. Included are pictures of this early car and a brief description of its creators, the Duryea brothers.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Vehicles
WLVT PBS 39 and PSEA present Write Now! video writing prompts, which are tools for educators and students to use in the classroom to encourage createive writing. This prompt asks: If you placed two different cars in a race, which one...
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Popular Mechanics: Technology
Popular Mechanics covers the latest in technology. Topics include computers, the Internet, audio, television, and more.
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Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: Overdrive: Teaching Guide [Pdf]
After helping his brother with his car, Jake borrows it and gets involved in a street race. The other car crashes. Jake eventually realizes he must own up to his part in it. This teacher's guide for "Overdrive" by Eric Walters includes a...
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