Middle School
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Getting Around Without Gasoline
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Learn about economic and environmental challenges that drive technical transportation innovations. Become familiar with activities that inform students and involve them in designing the cars of tomorrow. Students appraise natural resource and economic impacts of using fossil fuels for transportation, examine alternative energy sources, and develop a design concept for an environmentally friendly car.
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- Technology
- History
- Environmental Studies
- Science
- Mathematics
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Become familiar with the Junior Solar Sprint program in which students design, build, and race model cars powered by solar energy. Learn how to get involved and where to find resources and parts. Build a model sprint car and review lesson plans that will help students do the same. This hands-on project leads students to discover principals of science, technology, and mathematics. Teachers experience a refreshing way to meet state standards while students get a project that is loaded with fun.
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- Properties of Materials
- Design & Development
- Forces & Motion
- Electricity & Magnetism
- Solar Power
- Ratios
- Geometry, and much more
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Learn about the Junior Solar Sprint program in which students design, build, and race model cars powered by solar energy. Become acquainted with educational materials that will enable your students to discover principals of science, technology, and mathematics with a project that is loaded with fun.
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- Properties of Materials
- Design & Development
- Forces & Motion
- Electricity & Magnetism
- Solar Power
- Ratios
- Geometry, and much more
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Grades 7 – 9
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Learn about the social and environmental challenges and hopes that drive new transportation choices. Become familiar with student investigations of how people in town get around and the impact this has on their community. Students give back to the community by producing a travel guide of Clean and Green Ways to Get to Fun Places.
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- Social Studies
- Technology
- History
- Environmental Studies
- Science
- Health
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High School
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Become familiar with the social, environmental, economic, and technical challenges and hopes of clean, alternative automotive fuels. Become familiar with student activities that identify how alternatively fueled "cars-of-tomorrow" can be used in their community. With each lesson students discover another social, scientific, or technical aspect of cutting-edge automotive technologies and fuels.
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- Research
- Technology
- Environmental Studies
- Science
- Health
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All Grades
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Learn how to use transportation as an integrating context for interdisciplinary, standards-based learning in which students: (1) investigate alternative fuels and new vehicle technologies, (2) explore personal and community transportation patterns, (3) design and build model solar cars, and much more.
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- Science
- Technology
- Social Studies
- Language Arts
- Environmental Studies
- Health
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