Curated OER
Exercise on Present Progressive-Form Questions
In this simple present tense worksheet, learners use words and phrases given to form questions in present progressive tense. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck12: Driverless Car Simulation
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this interactive simulation, the user will help guide the driverless car using vectors.
State Energy Conservation Office-Texas
State Energy Conservation Office: Solar and Electric Cars [Pdf]
Learn the differences between cars powered by different fuels. Looks at solar, electric, hybrid and gasoline-powered cars.
Other
Lincoln Public Schools: Applied Technology & Engineering: Mousetrap Car It's a Snap! [Pdf]
This is an engineering activity that requires students to build a mousetrap car based on certain constraints. Constraints include students having a virtual budget that they use to buy approved parts for their car, the car having...
Chicago History Museum
Chicago History Museum: Pullman Luxury Rail Car
Read about the luxurious rail car George Pullman introduced that made transcontinental rail travel so desirable.
BBC
Bbc Newsround: Sinkhole Swallows Eight Rare Cars
A slideshow of images shows the destruction caused when a sinkhold emerged, swalling eight Corvettes from a museum.
Other
Bmw: Safe on the Streets
The BMW Group offers interactive, fun, easy-to-use resources for teachers, parents, and students to help find ways to keep safe on the streets. Provides safety tips, activities, and quizzes that help you learn to be safe whether you are...
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.
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.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Flooded Cars
Looking down a flooded street from the view of an apartment window, this photo shows a large number of flooded cars that have been drenched in the heavy rainfall.
Other
History Magazine: The Impact of Refrigeration
Scroll through this history of refrigeration to the sections that deal with the refrigerated rail car and how that revolutionized the shipping of meat, at first, and later other perishable products.
Chateau Meddybemps
Chateau Meddybemps: Matching Parts
At this interactive site match fronts and backs of cars and trucks. You can put together many interesting combinations, but there is only one correct match.
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: National Highway Safety Report and You
Look over resources with car accident reports, highway safety data, etc. Students will evaluate a local issue of road safety and build a report based on the researched data.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Squids Outsmart Their Predators
Carly Anne York explains how the stealthy cephalopods have mastered deep sea survival.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: How to Pull Something Heavy
Students measure and analyze forces that act on vehicles pulling heavy objects while moving at a constant speed on a frictional surface. They study how the cars interact with their environments through forces, and discover which...
Other
Railroad Archive: Westinghouse Air Brake
Everything necessary to know about the Westinghouse Air Brake for railroad cars is included on this site. There are diagrams of the air pump, triple valve, and advice on how to use the brake correctly. This brake was a life-saver for...