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Grand Prix Multiplication

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
The race is on to multiply. Scholars use an online four-player racing game to practice their multiplication skills. Every time they correctly answer a multiple-choice question on multiplication facts within 100, their race cars move...
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Solar Car Series: during What Part of the Day Can the Most Sun Power Be Collected?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
In preparation for solar car races, middle schoolers attempt to discover what time of day the most solar energy can be collected. Begin by demonstrating the use of a voltmeter for measuring solar cell output. Take them outdoors to take...
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Reading Racetrack Sight Word Activity

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Vroom! Get your learners reading as fast as race cars with an engaging Dolch sight words. As class members read the assigned words, they move along a race track to mark their progress.
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Build Your Own Car

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students design and build their own cars. For this physics lesson, students test their car's speed and make changes when necessary. They graph data and analyze results.
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Solar Racing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers harness the power of the sun to design, construct and evaluate a solar-powered model car of their creation. They race their cars in a "Solar Sprint" race modeled after the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Junior...
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Cars on the Curve

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, using two dice, participate in a car race game called Cars on the Curve. They predict which car wins the game and records it in their Data Diary.
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Go Car, Go!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students design and build their own car. In this physics lesson, students collect data to determine the speed of the car. They plot the data on the graph analyze the relationship between variables.
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Companies Racing to Build Electric Car

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Learners examine how they use batteries, then read a news article about how cars are being designed to use batteries. In this current events lesson, the teacher introduces the article with a discussion and vocabulary activity, then...
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Magnetic Car

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this magnetic car worksheet, students learn how to use simple household items to create a magnetic car. Students learn that magnets have two poles and when the same poles face each other it causes a force of repulsion which moves the...
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Balloon Powered Race Cars

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Learners examine Newton's Law of Motion and use the formula to calculate speed.  In this laws of motion instructional activity students create a balloon powered car and calculate its speed and distance. 
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Language Arts: Racing for Fluency

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students improve fluency through drills to increase quickness and smoothness. In pairs, they practice reading sentences out loud, each time increasing their fluency. Finally, students play a game of timed readings using a stop watch to...
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Race to the Eating Line Lesson Plan

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders participate in the building and racing of a vegetable and fruit race car.
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Racing Word Search

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this car racing word search instructional activity, students read 15 words in a word bank that pertain to car races. Students locate these words in a word search puzzle.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Robot Races

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Analyze data on a graph to answer three questions after a robot race. Learners practice comparing ratios and reading points on a graph. Answers may vary on the last question based on accuracy of graphing. Use the lesson along with three...
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Build and Test Your Car Continued

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students create and build cars to race in class. In this physics instructional activity, students calculate the speed using distance and time information. They evaluate their design and make adjustments when needed.
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Solar Racing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students design and build solar-powered cars. For this renewable energy lesson, students view websites showing a Department of Energy contest and solar-powered car design guidelines. They work in teams to design and build prototypes of a...
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Race the Track! Shoot the Loop

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students experiment with a steel ball and matchbox car to find the effects of force and motion. In this force and motion lesson, students assemble a track, conduct experiments and record on a shoot the loop worksheet. Students change the...
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Race the Track! Design Challenge

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students focus on a force and motion problem, explore it, reflect on it and apply it while completing experiments.  In this motion lesson, students experiment with force and motion by creating a track for testing cars.  
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Car Show

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students race homemade cars. In this physics lesson plan, students present their cars to judges and then race the cars on the prepared track. Several tips for setting the school gym up to host the event are suggested.
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Cars Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners participate in a tag game using characters from the Disney movie "Cars." They role-play different characters from the movie, with students wearing different colored vests or wrist bands and jogging in the Impound Area after...
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Exploring Variables While Testing and Improving Mint-Mobiles (for High School)

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
Mint candies are good for more than just one's breath. Using basic materials such as mint candies, straws, index cards, and Popsicle sticks, scholars create race cars that meet a given budget as well as design constraints. They perform...
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Exploring Variables While Testing and Improving Mint-Mobiles (for Middle School)

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
There are more ways to use mint candies than to just eat them. In groups, learners design and build race cars using mint candies, drinking straws, Popsicle sticks, index cards, and other materials. They decide on an independent variable...
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Printing Practice: "I Love Cars!"

For Students K - 1st
In this printing practice worksheet, students practice tracing and writing the sentence, "I Love Cars!" then color a picture of a race car and driver. Page has links to additional activities.
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The Great States Race

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Here is another in the interesting series of lessons that use the special State Quarters as a learning tool. This one uses the Indiana State Quarter. During this instructional activity, utilize a brilliantly-designed board game that is...

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