Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Measuring and Graphing Toy Water Animal Growth
Lesson involves scientific investigation and knowledge of units of measurement. Students will select and submerge a growing water animal toy, predicting and measuring its growth of at least three places of metric measurement of distance...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physics: Motion Study Guide
This study guide on motion covers some key vocabulary and terms to describe motion: displacement vs. distance, acceleration, speed vs. velocity, and instantaneous vs. average. It includes graphs showing distance vs. time, velocity vs....
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Matching the Motion
Students learn about slope, determining slope, distance vs. time graphs through a motion-filled activity. Working in teams with calculators and CBL motion detectors, students attempt to match the provided graphs and equations with the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Firefighter Training
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Harry decides to train as a firefighter and uses line graphs to chart his physical fitness progress.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Biomimicry: Echolocation in Robotics
Students use ultrasonic sensors and LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots to emulate how bats use echolocation to detect obstacles. They measure the robot's reaction times as it senses objects at two distances and with different sensor threshold...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Multiple Choice Practice: Coordinate Geometry
Test your knowledge of coordinate geometry by taking this twenty question multiple-choice practice test. Use a graphing calculator to help with any graphing problems and check your answers at any given time throughout the test.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Walk This Walk
In this activity, students use a motion detector to create Distance versus Time graphs. They experiment with various Distance-Time graphs and write mathematical descriptions of motion with constant velocity.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Need for Speed
After viewing an introductory illustrated podcast on speed, distance, time, and velocity, students explore distance-time graphs using interactive websites. Working in cooperative learning groups, students will investigate the motion of...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix: Motion: Changing Speeds
[Free Registration/Login Required] Drag the red dot to draw a position-time graph for a sprinter with changing speeds.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Seeing in the Dark
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students try to emulate a time vs. distance graph on their graphing calculator using the CBR2. Next, the CBR2 is "swept" across an area in which three students are standing to...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: A Steep Hike Adventure 3
Students use the CBR 2 to gather distance and time data for various walking speeds. They observe the effect of change in direction and speed of motion on distance versus time graphs. Students interpret and analyze graphs, calculate slope...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Slippery Slope Activity: Math & Science in Motion
This activity serves as a follow-up to Activity 6 in the Explorations book, Math and Science in Motion: Activities for Middle School by Chris Brueningsen, Elisa Brueningsen, and Bill Bower (Texas Instruments Incorporated, 1997). Students...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Slippery Slope
In this activity, students will create Distance versus Time plots and calculate the slopes of the plots. They explore the mathematical concept of slopes and understand how slopes can be used to interpret how one physical quantity changes...
Purdue University
Purdue University: An S and P Wave Travel Time Simulation
A classroom simulation modeling how earthquake waves travel through Earth at different speeds. A graph is constructed to demonstrate the relationship between the distance and time of travel of seismic waves, and then used to locate the...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Discovering Velocity Outside of the Classroom
A physics lab activity where students gather data from classmates running at different rates on a football field. They then share their gathered data and transfer it to a graphing program to ultimately calculate average velocity.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Motion
This lesson focuses on motion including definitions, how to calculate the change in velocity and the average acceleration, and a link to an assessment.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Archery
[Free Registration/Login Required] Watch this animation as an archer shoots at a target on an angle, and its horizontal and vertical paths and its velocity are explained. An interactive follows where you can manipulate the archer's...
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Lab Work Forces & Acceleration
The Illinois Institute of Technology provides this site. The site contains a graphing activity which illustrates that a constant force exerted upon an object results in constant acceleration. Rolling carts and stopwatches are used to...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Walk This Way: Definition of Rate
In this activity, students' will use a motion detector to record distance and velocity versus time information for a walker. They find the area under the velocity versus time graph and compare it to the actual distance traveled by the...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Tight Rope
In this activity, students examine quantities that are linearly related and can be visually represented using a straight-line graph. Students collect distance versus time data using a motion detector and find a model for the...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Science of Racing: Hitting the Mark
Since running a race car is VERY expensive, race engineers know a great deal about how speed, time and distance relate. In this activity, you will investigate the relationship between distance traveled, speed and elapsed time. You will...
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: The Great Tin Race
This activity is a great way to show distance and time relationships while incorporating charts and graphing. Different sized tins are raced against each other, and data is collected.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Measuring G
Using the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT kit, students construct experiments to measure the time it takes a free falling body to travel a specified distance. Students use the touch sensor, rotational sensor, and the NXT brick to measure the time of...
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Speed of Sound Lab
This lab is designed to have students investigate the relationship between the distance from an explosion and the time it takes the sound of the explosion to reach the observer. The temperature of the air can be changed by changing the...