Picture the headlights. In the back and front of the bus add rectangles and incomplete rectangles using straight lines.
How to Draw a School Bus
You can learn to draw another common vehicle with the help of this tutorial on how to draw a school bus step by step. A school bus is a type of bus owned or operated by a school or school district. It is regularly used to transport students to and from school or school-related activities. Different types of school buses are used all over the world.
The most famous examples of school buses are the yellow school buses of the United States and Canada, which are also found in other parts of the world. In this drawing lesson, you will learn to draw just such a school bus.
Your finished drawing is sure to turn out very colorful and beautiful. Prepare your drawing materials and get to work. I wish you draw a great school bus and have a good time!
- Pencil
- Paper
- Eraser
- Coloring supplies
Time needed: 20 minutes
How to Draw a School Bus
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Draw the outline of the main part of the bus. To complete this step you need to draw a rectangular trapezoid using straight lines.
Add the front of the bus. On the right side of the trapezoid, draw a straight oblique, vertical and horizontal line.
Depict an outline of the bus windows. Inside the trapezoid, draw two straight horizontal lines and connect them with a vertical line.
Draw the boundaries of the windows. Between the two horizontal lines draw several straight vertical parallel lines of the same size.
Add the doors and the bottom of the bus. On the right side add straight vertical lines and add a horizontal line at the bottom of the bus.
Picture the headlights. In the back and front of the bus add rectangles and incomplete rectangles using straight lines.
Picture the wheels. To draw two wheels, depict two circles and add inside each of the circles of smaller diameter.
Erase unnecessary lines. Use an eraser to remove auxiliary lines that appeared during the drawing process.
Color the drawing. To color this bus, you should use yellow blue, red, and shades of gray.
The lesson is over! Now you know how to draw a school bus. You can share your impressions about the lesson in the comments. Finally, I suggest you download a PDF file with a short version of this lesson. Thus, you can repeat the lesson at any convenient time, even if you do not have an Internet connection.
How to teach division: Division methods in a nutshell
We know how devilishly difficult division can be, so let’s start off with some definitions and a recap of what you may have forgotten since school.
What is division in maths?
Division is the operation that is the opposite of multiplication and it involves splitting into equal parts or groups.
In primary school, 3 methods of division are taught, each of which vary in difficulty. They are:
- Chunking
- Short division (also known as the bus stop method)
- Long division
Read more: What Is Division?
What is chunking?
Chunking is a method that is used to divide larger numbers that cannot be divided mentally.
When using the chunking method, children will repeatedly subtract the divisor from the dividend until there is an answer. For example, 12 ÷ 3 would be solved by doing 12 – 3 to get 9, 9 – 3 to get 6, 6 – 3 to get 3, and then 3 – 3 to get to 0.
When all of the times 3 has been subtracted from 12 are counted up (4), it becomes clear that the answer is 4.
What is short division?
Short division is a quick and effective method to work out division with larger numbers.
After your child becomes comfortable with chunking, they will move onto short division as it can be used to solve a division problem with a very large dividend by following a series of easy steps.
In this example, we have 9 tens to divide by four. 9 tens ÷ 4 = 2 tens, and we have one ten left over.
This remainder is then passed onto the next number (six) to make it 16 ones. 16 ones ÷ 4 is 4 , so when put together the answer becomes 24.
What is the bus stop method?
The bus stop method of division is just another name for short division. It gets its name from the idea that the dividend (the number you want to divide up) is sitting inside the bus stop while the divisor waits outside.
Teachers are divided about whether this is actually a useful image when learning division so most of the time we’re just going to refer to it as short division.
What is long division?
Long division is a method that is used when dividing a large number (usually three digits or more) by a two digit (or larger) number. It is set out in a similar way to the bus stop method that is used for short division.
Take a look at our example below to see long division explained in a visual example.
It is best explained through an example – see below.
We have a very detailed article written for teachers on this subject you might enjoy if you want to go into more depth about teaching the long division method at KS2.
Terminology you need to know when teaching division
In our blogs we try to avoid too much jargon, but the following three terms really are essential to know for anyone looking at division.
- The dividend is the number you are dividing (the number inside the ‘bus stop’).
- The divisor is the number you are dividing by.
- The quotient is the amount each divisor receives ie the answer in most cases.
A good way to remember it is dividend ÷ divisor = quotient.
Parts of a division problem labelled for kids and parents
By learning the correct vocabulary of all the parts of a division problem, your child will find lots of elements of division much simpler.
What does my child need to know about short division and long division in KS1 and KS2?
With short division and long division for kids changing from year to year throughout primary school, there is a lot to cover in the blog, but to help you out we’ve broken it down on a year by year basis.
How to teach division Year 1
In Year 1, division is usually called sharing and it’s done using concrete items like counters, blocks, or even items of food such as pasta.
This helps children to understand division as sharing between groups.
A simple example of this can be found below.
Some simple Year 1 division word problems
Grab some maths manipulatives or blocks to help your young learners try to figure out these division problems.
Make sure that you remember to use words like share and divide throughout so that your child becomes familiar with the concepts , where the divisor is the number of groups the dividend is to be shared between.
Start with 4 blocks. Share them into 2 equal groups.
Start with 10 blocks. Share them into 2 equal groups.
Start with 6 blocks. Share them into 3 equal groups.
How to teach division Year 2
In Year 2, children start to look at the way division works more deeply, and this means that there are a few more things for your child to learn.
A key concept to understand and really get to grips with at this age is commutativity .
If you are struggling to remember exactly what commutativity means, the definition is simple.
In maths, the commutative property states that order does not matter.
Multiplication is commutative ; you can switch around the numbers and it makes no difference.
Division is not commutative . If you switch the order of the numbers, it changes the answer.
Division and commutativity in Year 2
At this age, it’s good to practise learning the 2, 5, and 10 times tables with their corresponding division facts. For example:
Corresponding division facts:
Knowing these facts makes division much easier later on, as division is the inverse of multiplication and they are a great example of why commutativity is important.
If your child is comfortable with the difference between 10 ÷ 5 and 10 ÷ 2 even after seeing that 5 x 2 is the same as 2 x 5, they will be best placed to move comfortably up to KS2 short division, and KS2 long division.
Editorial: Pedal to the metal. Accelerate transition to electric school buses
Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023 — Electric power for school buses is ideal – for reliability, maintenance and efficient use of resources – both natural and from taxpayers. As the legislature continues its work on the state budget, making provisions to increase the fleet of electric-powered buses is an easy choice, support local industry and must be a top priority.
Posted 2023-09-19T02:49:03+00:00 – Updated 2023-09-19T11:47:44+00:00
CBC Editorial: Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023; editorial #8875
The following is the opinion of Capitol Broadcasting Company
Imagine state leaders – particularly those who lead North Carolina’s General Assembly – being able to promote a key state industry, assure reliable transportation for school children, reduce school bus maintenance fees, significantly cut consumption of even more expensive fossil fuels AND save taxpayer dollars.
There’s even been an added incentive — $30 million the settlement states received from Volkswagen to settle alleged Clean Air Act violations – to enhance state dollars.
Electric-powered school buses are ideal. While they do travel a lot of miles, they never go very far from their home base. They are idle significant portions of the day – thus can easily and regularly recharge. Regular maintenance costs are also significantly less than fossil-fueled buses.
No one of common sense could be against this. Unless you’re a Luddite the likes of Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who last week declared electric vehicles were “foolishness,” climate change was “pseudo-science” and the change of seasons is “the only climate change that I believe in.”
Thomas Built Buses, a North Carolina company leading the way in manufacturing electric-powered school buses, says that fuel costs are at least 40% less than diesel. Because these engines have fewer moving parts, maintenance is significantly less – even considering the costs of battery replacement.
“Even when you consider the higher purchase price, maintenance costs, power costs and possible battery replacement, an electric school bus could still save schools nearly $2,000 a year in fuel and $4,400 a year in maintenance costs,” say the High Point-based Thomas Built folks. “Electric buses make up for their higher purchase costs within 13 years of operation (a typical school bus is eligible for state-funded replacement only if it is more than 20 years old) and end up saving more than $31,000 in operational costs over the lifetime of the bus.”
Rather than follow the uninformed and dismissive logic of Lt. Gov. Robinson, North Carolina’s leaders should follow the facts and embrace ways to transition the state’s more than 14,100 daily-operating buses as quickly as possible into a fleet of electric buses.
The state Department of Environmental Quality has given it a good boost with the awarding of $30 million from the VW settlement for school districts around the state – mostly in rural areas — to purchase 49 electric—powered buses.
Additionally, the federal government through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Clean School Bus Program, is making $5 billion available over the next five years to replace traditionally fueled buses. Last year more than $890 million in federal funds was distributed for clean-energy school buses with five grants, worth about $12.4 million, awarded to North Carolina schools’ systems for 31 buses.
Just last month the federal Environmental Protection Agency accepted applications for more than $400 million in grants that are being distributed nationwide for the replacement of existing school buses with clean and zero-emission buses.
Having a reliable resource to power school buses that isn’t subject to the wild fluctuation of global oil prices would provide stability for state and local school budgets as well as savings for taxpayers. It is most welcome to see, despite the cynicism of the likes of Lt. Gov. Robinson, state and local energy and school officials are embracing opportunities to expand electric buses in their fleets.
Furthermore, with a more than $3.5 billion state budget surplus – as well as providing authorization for much-needed statewide and local school bond issues – significant additional funding could easily be made available to increase the state’s public school systems’ electric school bus fleet.
Electric power for school buses and other buses used for local transit are ideal – for reliability, maintenance and efficient use of resources – both natural and from taxpayers.
As the legislature continues its work on the state budget, making provisions to increase the fleet of electric-powered buses is an easy choice and must be a top priority.
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