This site includes practice using the acceleration equation to solve for acceleration, time, and initial or final velocity.

In this activity, students will use a plywood ramp and various tornado tubes (made from tornado tube connectors and 2 liter pop bottles) to calculate the average speed of the tornado tubes. They will set up 4 investigations filling the 2...

In this introduction to motion activity, students will get a personal understanding of speed and acceleration by experiencing it firsthand. Wheeled office chairs or other cart like devices are used to give one student a ride as a fellow...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students solve problems involving displacement, distance, velocity, speed, and acceleration, and then explore problems and graphs involving one-dimensional motion.

This has been used for the physics portion of a ninth grade physical science course. This lab experience is designed to give young scholars a conceptual sense of the relationship between one-dimensional distance, velocity and acceleration.

Given descriptions, illustrations, graphs, charts, or equations, students will differentiate between speed, velocity, and acceleration.

This project is an experiment in classical physics. You'll be following in Galileo's footsteps, and investigating Newton's laws of motion, but you'll be taking advantage of modern video recording technology to make your measurements. The...

Provides definitions, examples, and formulas for acceleration.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students explore and calculate an object's motion in terms of position, displacement, speed, and acceleration.

This brief overview distinguishes speed and velocity. Vectors are explained along with acceleration and gravitation. Diagrams are used to help explain these concepts.

Middle schoolers roll miniature cars down a ramp and measure their speed and acceleration every 10 cm. Students can vary the type of car, height of ramp or the ramp material. Student change one of these variables to investigate how the...

Observe the animation of the three cars. Use the animation to answer three questions about their acceleration and velocity.

Using the values of speed, acceleration, and force, students explore and analyze the motion of objects in circles.

In this lab, learners investigate the motion of toy cars and collect data to analyze the speed of the vehicle between various points and overall speed.

This lesson focuses on Newton's First Law: an object remains in the same state of motion unless a resultant force acts on it. If the resultant force on an object is zero, this means: a stationary object stays stationary; a moving object...

Discusses the meaning of velocity in terms of a graphical representation. Calculus-based discussion. Good graphics.

Learn about position, velocity, and acceleration vectors by moving the ladybug. Set the position, velocity, or acceleration, and see how the vectors change.

Take control of a virtual car and learn how vectors are used to represent velocity and acceleration in this interactive activity developed for Teachers' Domain.

Explore forces and motion as you push household objects up and down a ramp. Lower and raise the ramp to see how the angle of inclination affects the parallel forces.

An illustrated example of a speed-time graph plotted with speed on the vertical axis against time on the horizontal axis.

In this lab students will measure the energy of a bowling ball with vernier motion detectors. The students will calculate the energy of the ball at the beginning, mid point, and end of a bowling alley. Students will inquire about the...

This resource provides flexible alternate or additional learning activities for students learning about the concepts of distance, speed, and acceleration.

Middle schoolers understand that vectors have both magnitude and direction components as they investigate velocity and acceleration vectors.

Through an animated illustration of a dot diagram and time graphs, students learn about positive velocity and positive acceleration.