Baby What Drives My Car or Everything You AUTO Know about...NRG

An integrated/interdisciplinary unit for ninth through twelfth grades exploring the dynamics of Energy and the Automobile The automobile has been one of the most powerful change agents for the previous 100 years. It's omnipresence makes it a particularly strong vehicle for teaching the scientific principles that allow it to operate. The fact that this mode of transportation affects practically everyone, everywhere, everyday makes understanding it important. The integration of understanding scientific principles and the daily operation of the automobile should allow for a real world, practical application of important scientific theory. The automobile is an object near and dear to the average teenager. This topic will apply to their lives after they leave school.