Week of 4-5-04
Transportation
This week HLN takes to the air, to the water and the road to explore the many modes of transportation we use everyday. How do we use mechanical locomotion and why is it so important to understand? Travel with us this week as we seek the answers!
Join HLN to have access to 4 complete thematic units, or use the following links will help you study these topics:
Measuring Particulate Emissions from Autos
Children use common household materials to view pollution from automobiles. (Ages 13 and up)
Air Quality and Transportation
Children study carpooling in their local community and other alternative types of transportation as ways to reduce air pollution. Suggestion: Adapt the lesson to have children observe cars on your street, local supermarket, mall or other location in your area. (Ages 7-10)
Build Your Own Online Race Car!
An interactive online activity in which children follow the directions to build a model race car. (Ages 9 and up)
Create a Car on an Assembly Line
Children develop an assembly line to create model cars from plastic building blocks. (Ages 5 and up)
Aviation Through the Ages - A History of Flight
Aviation Through the Ages is built to be an interesting and interactive web site for others to explore pointing them in directions that will lead them in to their own independent study of aviation.. Leonardo da Vinci will guide you through the study of aviation.
Aviation First Scavenger Hunt
(Grades 3-12) Students use online or library sources to complete a scavenger hunt about fascinating aviation firsts.
The History of Flight and Some Mathematical Application
(Grades 9-12) This curriculum unit engages high school students in important mathematical theory, and also points to the importance of practical mathematics in the history of major inventions, such as the airplane.
Doing things the "Wright" Way
In this lesson, students investigate 20th century inventions in order to examine how inventions reflect the historical events during which they were developed and improved. Students research what they feel are significant 20th century inventions and create illustrated timelines of the evolution of those inventions.
How Things Fly. Activities for teaching flight
A lesson plan for 5th-12th graders These lesson plans embrace that spirit of adventure and discovery by having students draw upon their own experiences and sense of movement to understand the basic physics of flight.
How Submarines Work
A submarine or a ship can float because the weight of water that it displaces is equal to the weight of the ship. How does this work? Explore at this website!
Planes and Trains and Automobiles … and Study Skills!
"Transport" students to a dozen activities that provide practice in reading maps, schedules, timetables, and more. Included: Four study skills teaching master activities for students!
Trains, Telegraphs, and Steamships: War's New Weapons
Students will research how the North and the South used new technologies during the Civil War; and imagine they are on-the-scene reporters writing about how these new technologies are changing the course of the war.
