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Interactive
Curated OER

Exercise on Present Progressive-Form Questions

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this simple present tense worksheet, learners use words and phrases given to form questions in present progressive tense. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck12: Driverless Car Simulation

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this interactive simulation, the user will help guide the driverless car using vectors.
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Handout
State Energy Conservation Office-Texas

State Energy Conservation Office: Solar and Electric Cars [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 6th
Learn the differences between cars powered by different fuels. Looks at solar, electric, hybrid and gasoline-powered cars.
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Activity
Other

Lincoln Public Schools: Applied Technology & Engineering: Mousetrap Car It's a Snap! [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Website
Chicago History Museum

Chicago History Museum: Pullman Luxury Rail Car

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the luxurious rail car George Pullman introduced that made transcontinental rail travel so desirable.
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PPT
BBC

Bbc Newsround: Sinkhole Swallows Eight Rare Cars

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A slideshow of images shows the destruction caused when a sinkhold emerged, swalling eight Corvettes from a museum.
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Website
Other

Bmw: Safe on the Streets

For Students 2nd - 6th
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...
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Interactive
Fun Brain

Fun Brain: Math Car Racing (Easy Addition Game)

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
FunBrain's easy addition facts game lets players race cars, fueled by correct answers, around a track.
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Interactive
Fun Brain

Fun Brain: Math Car Racing Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Science Kids: Science Images: Flooded Cars

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Website
Other

History Magazine: The Impact of Refrigeration

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Interactive
Chateau Meddybemps

Chateau Meddybemps: Matching Parts

For Students 3rd - 5th
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.
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Lesson Plan
Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: National Highway Safety Report and You

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Squids Outsmart Their Predators

For Students 9th - 10th
Carly Anne York explains how the stealthy cephalopods have mastered deep sea survival.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How to Pull Something Heavy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Website
Other

Railroad Archive: Westinghouse Air Brake

For Students 9th - 10th
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...