For this activity, learners 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...

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

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.

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...

[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.

[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.

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

Students interactively create predictions of position, velocity, and acceleration graphs using java applets. The applets automatically classify student answers, so instructors can create graphs of student predictions.

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...

This 9-problem quiz/practice helps students understand how position, velocity and acceleration are related.

By the end of this section, you will be able to calculate coefficient of friction on a car tire and to calculate ideal speed and angle of a car on a turn.

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

In this investigation, learners will work in groups to design a model roller coaster, which will be used to clock the fastest speed for the rider (ball bearing/marble) The groups will build roller coaster models and modify and adjust...

Test your knowledge of velocity and acceleration with this short quiz.

View the answers to a quiz about velocity and acceleration on this site.

Discover the difference between speed, velocity, and acceleration. Provides formulas and other interesting facts.

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

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

This illustrated tutorial focuses on several examples of vector and scalar quantities including distance, displacement, speed, velocity, and acceleration.

Provides definitions, examples, and formulas for acceleration.

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.

In this short lab, young scholars use Tonka trucks to observe the acceleration of a object as it initiates acceleration, maintains a steady speed, and slows to a stop.

Calculate the final speed and the distanced covered by a car that is accelerating because of a certain set of forces acting on the car.

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.