TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Cars: Engineering for Efficiency
Students learn how the aerodynamics and rolling resistance of a car affect its energy efficiency through designing and constructing model cars out of simple materials. As the little cars are raced down a tilted track (powered by gravity)...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Nascar: List of Race Car Drivers
All about NASCAR drivers. List of the drivers with a small bio on each.
Arcademics
Arcademics: Drag Race Division
With this resource students review division while playing this multi-player learning game. Student power their car by answering the division problems correctly. The speed of the car is determined by how fast the learner answers the problem.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Car Race Model
Check out this simulation of kinematics. Test a race car with a constant acceleration versus a race car with constant velocity.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Racing With the Sun Creating a Solar Car
Students use engineering design principles to construct and test a fully solar powered car. Several options exist, though we recommend the "Junior Solar Sprint" (JSS) Car Kits that can be purchased with direction from the federal...
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.
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.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: Math Car Racing (Easy Addition Game)
FunBrain's easy addition facts game lets players race cars, fueled by correct answers, around a track.
Doina Popovici
Math Play: Properties of Operations Math Racing Game
Test your math vocabulary for properties of operations in this online car racing game.
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...
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.
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.
Starfall
Starfall: Learn to Read: Car Race
Race to read this book. Read AR-controlled words. There are also interactive opportunities to help Carla and Mark race. The story has audio options.
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: Wide World of Gears
In an interactive and game-like manner, students learn about the mechanical advantage that is offered by gears. By virtue of the activity's mechatronics presentation, students learn to study a mechanical system as a dynamic system under...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Nascar: Learn All About the Sport of Nascar
Learn about NASCAR race cars and racetracks. Also racing terms and glossary.
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.
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.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: Math Car Racing Game
Players must choose the mathematical expression with the highest value to win. Tests understanding of basic arithmetic skills involving the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers.
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...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Swimming Otters Algebra
Swimming Otters Algebra is an educational multi-player racing activity for kids to practice algebraic expressions. How quickly the student correctly answers the algebra problem determines how quickly the race car will go. The student...
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