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• Caillou - "Caillou's Test Drive"
  When their car breaks down, the family goes shopping for a new one. Caillou has never seen so many shiny cars and especially likes the one with ‘no roof’ that they go for a ride in. In the end, Mom and Dad decide to fix up their car, which makes Caillou happy.
• Arthur - "Pick a Car, Any Car"
  The Read family car is broken, and so is Arthur's heart. How can Mom and Dad even think of replacing it? "Car Talk" hosts Click and Clack the Tappet brothers (otherwise known as Tom and Ray Magliozzi) lend some much-needed advice as Arthur desperately tries to save the beloved vehicle.

Do in Class

• Arthur: Box Vehicle - Design and build a vehicle from a cardboard box, and imagine yourself taking a journey. Describe where you are going, and imitate the sounds your vehicle makes.
• Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Car and Masking Tape Roads - Make an egg-carton car and a masking tape road.
• Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Water Play - Have a car wash.
• Reading Rainbow: The Adventures of Taxi Dog - Turn a large box open side down and make it into a taxi (or any other vehicle) using paper, crayons or markers to draw in doors, windows, etc.
• Reading Rainbow: Tooth-Gnasher Superflash Family Activity - Make long-distance trips more fun with these travel games.
• ZOOM: ZOOMsci - ZOOM Egg Vehicle - Build a vehicle that will stop an egg from breaking when it slides down a string and smashes into a wall.
• ZOOM: ZOOMsci - Puff-mobile - Construct a car with the given materials and blow to make it go.

Play Online

• Barney: Transportation Matching Game - Match the correct type of transportation with each background picture.
• Cyberchase: Virus Hunt - Navigate the car to find the virus pod and save Pleasant Island.
• George Shrinks: Build It! - Help George assemble his Zooper Car.
• ZOOM: The Balloon Car - Discover that hot air can be use to make things move. Make a balloon car online.

Read

• The Adventures of Taxi Dog
  By Debra and Sal Barracca
  Published April 2000 by Puffin
  A stray dog in New York City is adopted by a taxi driver, with whom he rides and shares adventures each day.
• Tooth-Gnasher Superflash
  By Daniel Pinkwater
  Published March 1990 by Aladdin Library
  The Popsnorkles need a new car, so they test drive the amazing Tooth-Gnasher Superflash, and are amazed when it changes its shape into several different animals.

*As most PBS children's programs offer one year extended taping rights for teachers, please feel free to tape them now and save them for use in your classroom during the school year.