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.