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Article: A Detailed Explanation Of How Color Changing Paint Works
Color changing car paint easily grabs the attention and has gone in and out of style over the years. True color-shifting paints rely on basic chemical and physical properties to produce a unique effect. https://www.hotcars.com/a-detailed-explanation-of-how-color-changing-paint-works/
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Article: Smart Textiles- The Future of the Fabric Industry
Textiles are everywhere – from the clothing we wear, cars we drive, and furniture we occupy to the roads we travel, bandages we use to heal, and structures that shelter us for protection, each fabric is carefully selected for its unique construction and properties. But what if the clothing you wore could monitor your heart…
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Article: The Science Of Hitting Switches
Hydraulics and lowriders go hand and hand. It’s to the point where people tend to assume any American car with wire wheels and thin whites has to have hydraulics… http://www.speedhunters.com/2018/07/the-science-of-hitting-switches/
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Video: Glass Paint That Can Keep Structures Cool
Sunlight can be brutal. It wears down even the strongest structures, including rooftops and naval ships, and it heats up metal slides and bleachers until they’re too hot to use. To fend off damage and heat from the sun’s harsh rays, scientists have developed a new, environmentally friendly paint out of glass that bounces sunlight…
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Seco Live: Low’N Slow
Low ‘N Slow will offer an immersive outdoor experience for art lovers of all ages providing a multi sensory tour through the world of lowrider arts and culture in Northern New Mexico. This safe and socially distant exhibition takes visitors through every aspect of lowrider culture from a 101 guide to hydraulics and pinstriping and…
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Video: How Chicano Lowrider Culture Found a Home in Japan
In 1987, Junichi Shimodaira fell in love. He was visiting the United States for the first time when he spotted a car driving low and slow in Southern California. Steadily, Chicano car clubs—an outlet for cultural and political expression that dates back to the 1940s—won Junichi over. At his Paradise Road shop he repairs and…
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Video: Custom Car Painter Takahiko Izawa
Take one 1958 Chevy Impala, add an expert Japanese designer and an entirely new paint job, mix in intricately engraved bodywork…and you’ve got one of the world’s most stunning custom cars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YaDuxiInKo
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Video: Pascal’s Law
Physics simulations demonstrating Pascal’s Law and the hydraulic lift.
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Experiment: Hydraulic Arm
You’ll feel the pressure to do some heavy lifting.When you push the plunger on a syringe, water is forced into a second syringe, extending its plunger and lifting a mechanical arm. The process illustrates aspects of fluid pressure, force, mechanical work, and biomechanics. https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/hydraulic-arm
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Teacher Tool: APPENDIX F – Science and Engineering Practices in the NGSS
“A Science Framework for K-12 Science Education provides the blueprint for developing the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The Framework expresses a vision in science education that requires students to operate at the nexus of three dimensions of learning: Science and Engineering Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Disciplinary Core Ideas. The Framework identified a small number of disciplinary core ideas that all students should learn with increasing depth and sophistication, from Kindergarten through grade twelve. Key to the vision…
