Updated On: June 19, 2020

Cars

Art & Design

Illustration

All Ages
Follow Instructions: Find a step-by-step car illustration tutorial to your liking among the many pages available here and learn from someone else’s expertise.

Painting

All Ages
Paint: Creatively paint an abandoned or junked car.

Children & Teenagers
Create: Learn Adobe Illustrator to create digital paintings of favorite vehicles.

Engineering & Technology

Children & Teenagers
Experiment: Create a controlled combustion experiment to learn how an engine works.

All Ages
Research: Learn about the various methods of transportation before the combustion engine was invented.

All Ages
Research: Study the inventors who designed each component of a car and the circumstances that led to the innovation.

Language & Thinking

Writing

Children & Teenagers
Write a How-To Guide: Write explanations of how to perform basic car maintenance that can be shared with a younger sibling or friend.

Children & Teenagers
Write a Journal Entry: Create a daily driving journal describing how far the family drove, where to, and why.

Children & Teenagers
Write a Short Story: Compose short stories about what ancient cultures might have been like if they had cars.

Math

Children & Teenagers
Analyze: Review probability and statistics using data about car accidents.

Teenagers
Teach Passively: Explain differential calculus in the context of an accelerating car.

Geometry & Trigonometry

Children & Teenagers
Use vehicle components to introduce geometric concepts.

Play

Toddlers & Children
Create: Build cars out of Legos.

Science

Children & Teenagers
Analyze: Analyze the components in gasoline and how it is extracted and processed from oil.

Physics

Children & Teenagers
Learn about potential and kinetic energy and how they apply to a vehicle.

Children & Teenagers
Teach: Introduce physics using a vehicle to discuss concepts such as motion, linear momentum, torque, and thermodynamics.

Social Sciences

History

Toddlers & Children
Reenact: Use toy cars to recreate epic battle scenes and discuss the grievances that led to them.