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Cars on the Line: teacher key

How Cars Are Made, grade 1 edition, written for 1st grade. See how a car starts as a drawing, gets parts and paint, and rolls down a line.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

  1. How does a car start?
    • As a pie
    • As a drawing (answer)
    • As a rock
  2. What does a big press do?
    • Picks fruit
    • Washes socks
    • Squeezes metal into shapes (answer)
  3. A car moves down the line and stops. What happens at the stop?
    • Workers add parts (answer)
    • The car is drawn
    • The car takes a nap
  4. How fast could a very first Benz car go, at best?
    • It did not move
    • About ten miles an hour (answer)
    • As fast as a jet
  5. What did Henry Ford want?
    • A pet frog
    • A tall tower
    • Cars that families could buy (answer)

Words

  • press: metal squeezer
  • layer: a coat
  • stop: a place