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Transportation Megasites
Aviation/Flight
Bicycles
Buses/Transit
Cars
Construction & Farm
Highways/Freeways
Light Rail
Motorcycles
Spacecraft
Submarines
Trains/Railroads
Trolleys
Transportation Megasites Garrett A. Morgan Technology and Transportation Futures Program
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/education/ Discover what the Federal Transportation Administration does here.
Innovative Transportation Technologies
http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans/ This site helps explain unconventional transportation systems, including passenger and frieght systems, supported and suspended vehicles, and people movers.
Transportation Wonderland
http://education.dot.gov/k5/gamk5.htm This site for younger youth teaches about boats, trucks, cars, buses, trains and planes as ways to get around and learn what transportation is all about.
Vince & Larry\'s Safety City
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/kids/ Follow along with Vince and Larry, crash-test dummies, as they teach safety from the National Highway Traffic Safety Asministration.
Women in Transportation
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/wit/index.htm Discover how various women through the centuries have influenced transportation.
Aviation Paper Airplanes
Airliners.net
http://www.airliners.net/ Over 95,000 aircraft, helicopters, military crafts, photographs are available from this site. Choose an aircraft and view it.
Aviation Through the Ages: A History of Flight
http://tqjunior.advanced.org/3785/contents.html From 1000 BC to the present, learn about aviation historyand about famous aviators. From ThinkQuest Junior, whose focus is grade 4 to 6.
A Flight Through the Past
http://library.thinkquest.org/26854/cgi-bin/framer.cgi?name=main&v=4 Discover the history of aviation from Da Vinci through the 20th century. Find out what makes planes fly and if a career in aviation is for you!
How Things Fly
http://www.nasm.edu/galleries/gal109/ From the National Air and Space Museum site.
Interactive History of Flight
http://tqjunior.advanced.org/4027/ Flight through the ages, from the Wright Brothers to the future. From ThinkQuest Junior whose focus is for grades 4 to 6.
Magnetic Kaleidoscope Club Page of Flight
http://www.pnn.com/~dbaldwin/flight/flight.html Dr. Lavern J. Weber. Dr. Weber is a Marine Biologist who works at the Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Oregon who worked with eight children in Oregon on flight science through Science-By-Mail.
Milestones of Flight
http://www.nasm.edu/galleries/gal100/ The National Air and Space Museum\'s exhibit offers information, pictures and facts about the first plane flight in 1903 to the latest turboject airplane.
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center: Photo Gallery
http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/ Includes flight date and aircraft images.
Smithsonian: Transportation History
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/transportation.htm Discover the Smithonsian\'s information about air, sea, rail and road transportation.
Warbirds!
http://www.rdrop.com/users/mvz/warbirds.htm Propeller driven planes from the 1930s and 1940s especially involved in World War II.
World\'s Busiest Airports
http://www.airports.org/traffic/ This report for the previous year provides busiest airport by passengers, cargo, and aircraft.
Paper Airplanes Action Print & Fold Origami
http://www.carleton.ca/~dwong/origami/index.html Download these zip files created to print out model paper airplanes on 8 1/2 x 11 paper.
Build the Best Paper Airplane in the World
http://www.zurqui.com/crinfocus/paper/airplane.html Images and directions to building a super paper airplane. Images accompany directions and the page may load slowly.
Building the Egret
http://www.friend.ly.net/scoop/activity/airplanes/index.html Directions and graphics explaining how to create the Egret.
Flights of Fancy
http://home.inreach.com/jdcard/engl3007/airplane.htm Step by step directions with graphics on how to make a paper airplane. Also includes audio and video clips. Requires Real Player plug-in.
How to Make a Paper Airplane
http://home.inreach.com/jdcard/engl3007/airplane.htm Step by step directions with graphics on how to make a paper airplane.
Kool Paper Airplanes
http://koolpaperairplanes.hypermart.net/ Looking for specific types of planes to make? Want to make a more difficult paper airplane? Then check this site out.
Paper Airplanes and More
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/1817/ Build a simple paper airplane, paper ariplane history, world records and more.
Bicycles Bike Safety Tour
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/kids/biketour/index.html This site helps your prepare for cycling around your neighborhood and city and suggests what one should wear and gives advice about how to keep safe.
Propelled by Pedals
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002670/ At this site from Thinkquest, discover how bikes work, what you should wear for protection, a history of bikes, and more.
Buses/Transit About the New York Transit
http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/nyct/facts/index.html Discover subway and bus facts including the longest bus and subway ride, how many miles a day the subway rides, and general history of the organization.
Colchester Bus History
http://www.aspects.net/~markcol/colbus/ Visit the Colchester bus history from 1829 to the present.
Guide to Ride NYC Buses
http://www.ny.com/transportation/buses/ridebuses.html This site explains the steps to riding a public bus in New York City but the steps are useful for anyone riding the bus anywhere.
School Bus Yard
http://members.aol.com/SchoolBusYard/index.html For pictures of many different types of school buses over the eras.
Tri-met Kids Stop
http://www.tri-met.org/kidstop/kidsmenu.htm Fun places to go to around Portland on the bus. The site includes games and color sheets.
Cars Alternative Fuel Vehicles| Automobile History
Alternative Fuel Vehicles 1997 Veggie Van
http://www.veggievan.org/ Fueled by used vegetable oil, this van is making a US tour in 1997.
Alternative Fuel Activity Book
http://www.state.hi.us/dbedt/ert/activitybook/index.html This site from Hawaiian State Energy, Resources and Technology Division provides upper elementary and middle school youth with basic facts about alternative fueled vehicles and fun activities to learn more about them.
Alternative Fuels Data Center
http://www.afdc.doe.gov/ This site from the U.S. Office of Transportation Technologies presents what vehicles currently run using alternative fuels. The alternative fuels are listed and explained also. Frequently Asked Questions section compares alternative fuels with gasoline in cost and pollution emissions, and provides links to the alternative fuel information sites.
Alternative Fuel Vehicles
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/5134/index.html Natural gas, propane, biodiesel, hydrogen, and electricity powered vehicles.
EV Information Network
http://www.evadc.org/ Learn more about electronic vehicles, the myths and the facts, costs, batteries, and see photographs in the showroom.
Office of Transportation Technologies Kid\'s Page
http://www.ott.doe.gov/kids.html Learn about alternative fuel cars and the enviornment here.
Automobile History Automotive Industries On-Line
http://www.ai-online.com/history/index.htm Their 100th anniversary issue provides the history of the automobile by decade. Each page describes interesting inventions and technologies as well as ideas that didn\'t become reality. Includes photographs and graphics.
Detroit, Inc.
http://www.comm.wayne.edu/auto100/detroit/00.html "A brief history of the first 100 years of the automobile in the US."
Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village
http://www.hfmgv.org/histories/index.html This site includes a biography of Ford and other inventors, a progressive timeline of the Ford Motor Company, a showroom of Ford cars from the late 1800s to the present and more.
This Day in Automotive History
http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/auto.html This site provides historic events and facts for today\'s date in history.
West of Laramie: A Brief History of the Auto Industry
http://www.comm.wayne.edu/staff/wright/autohistory/00.html This online book published by the Communications Department of Wayne State University presents a short history of the auto industry in the US.
Construction & Farm Everything About Construction Equipment
http://www.komatsu.co.jp/kikki/special/e_index.htm Discover how different construction vehicles work at this site. Shockwave Flashplug-in required.
The Great Picture Book of Construction Equipment
http://www.komatsu.co.jp/kikki/zukan/e_index.htm This site provides photos and basic information about contruction equipment. Several sections also include Quicktime video and sound.
History of Trackers
http://www.ssbtractor.com/features/index.html This site gives an indepth history of a couple of different trackers.
Highways/Freeways The American HighwayProject
http://www.highwayproject.org/ This Web site documents highway roadside attractions, diners, and more in photographs.
Historic Columbia River Highway
http://www.odot.state.or.us/hcrh/ This site gives an indepth history of the historic highway\'s creation and use and includes photos.
Light Rail Max Light Rail
http://www.tri-met.org/moving.htm This site from Tri-met explains the history and ridership of Portland\'s light rail system. Explore the westside construction archives and discover more about what light rail in Portland offers.
Airport Max
http://www.utour.com/cascadestation/ Learn more about the airport max at this site. What will the airport stops look like? What will the business and retail area, Cascade Station, look like? Find out here.
Motorcycles The Art of the Motorcycle
http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/past_exhibitions/motorcycle/motorcycle.html This Web site from the Guggenheim Museum presents the history of the motorcycle and its development through the decades.
Ships and Boats The @rt Room
http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/@rtroom_home.html Provides a learning environment for exploring the world of art.
Boats and Buoyance
http://www.rockyview.ab.ca/bpeak/edge/boats.html Historical information, designing and building, experiments to do, and more.
Kids in Boats
http://www.anzsbeg.org.au/ History of boats, tides, water safety and more.
Submarines About Submarines
http://www.quiknet.com/~jeruff/mbt1.html This site, by a former crew member on the USS Queenfish, provides a fairly technical description of how submarines work.
OMSI USS Blueback
http://www.omsi.edu/explore/sub/home.html Read about Portland\'s own submarine, the USS Blueback at this site. You can also find out how submarines dive and listen to a dive alarm.
Submarines
http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/sub.htm This site has an introduction to the history of submarines, a description of how they work, and directions about how to make a submarine from a pen cap.
USS Requin Submarine
http://www.carnegiesciencecenter.org/family/requin.asp This page about the USS Requin submarine has information about the history of submarines and about how submarines dive and surface, including an experiment you can try.
ZOOM: Submarine Race
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/zoom/sci/subrace.html Design your own submarine out of a plastic bottle, marbles, baking soda, and vinegar with the directions from this site. You can even send in your results!
Trains/Railroads Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
http://www.cprr.com/Museum/index.html This site presents a wide range of images and photographs from the building, riding, and running of this railroad.
History of Railroads and Maps
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrhome.html From the Library of Congress, the beginning of American railroads, the Transcontinental Railroad, and more.
FRA: Education, Career Development and Safety Awareness
http://www.fra.dot.gov/s/edu/index.htm Explore the safety tunnel, disover railroad careers, and discover history of railroads here.
Oregon Railroad Histories
http://www.easystreet.com/pnwc/museum/rr_history_index.html Histories of various railroad companies of the Northwest and Oregon.
Pacific Northwest Railroad Maps
http://www.easystreet.com/pnwc/museum/Maps/ Explore railroad maps of Oregon and the Northwest from 1846 to 1998. Learn about active and abandoned lines.
Railroad Maps 1828-1900
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrhome.html From the Library of Congress.
Railways in the 19th Century
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/railways.htm British history from 1700-1900. Includes railway ans bridge engineers, entrepreneurs, locomotives, railway companies, stations, towns and cities.
The Transcontinental Railroad
http://bushong.net/dawn/history/ids100/ This site presents the history behind building the transcontinental railroad, the leaders and workers and more. Includes photos.
Union Pacific Railroad History
http://www.uprr.com/uprr/ffh/history/ This site provides a historic overview, timeline, and highlights significant people related to the company. The site also provides photos and information about historical equipment.
Western Railroads
http://www.linecamp.com/museums/americanwest/hubs/railroads_
expanding_west/railroads_expanding_west.html History behind the transcontinental railroad and those key figures involved in its completion.
Trolleys Portland Vintage Trolleys
http://www.teleport.com/~dthompso/ Discover if your Portland neighborhood had a trolley line, a chronology of its history, and information about the currently running Vintage Trolley.
San Francisco Cable Car Museum
http://www.cablecarmuseum.com/ Explore cable car history, view historic photos a timeline, discover the anatomy of a cable car and how it works, learn about the original cable car companies, and what today\'s cable car system is like.
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