This video segment adapted from NOVA looks at speed, velocity, and centripetal force on the racetrack. [6:28]

In this introduction to motion activity, young scholars 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...

Dive into hands-on aerodynamics experiments and dynamic STEM activities that support core science lessons in force, momentum, and speed. This site provides teacher, student and video resources.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Difference between velocity and speed, using vector arrows to represent velocity, objects that have different velocities and how to calculate average velocity.

Solve problems where you must find the average velocity or speed by analyzing graphs. Hints and helpful videos are available when needed.

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

An illustrated article helps physics students learn about center of mass and velocity, and define the concept of inertia.

Gain an understanding of average velocity and speed with this helpful reference tool. Provides a detailed definition and examples that enhance further explanation. Includes links to related topics.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students explore instantaneous velocity and how to calculate it. They also learn how interpret and create position vs time graphs.

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

Practice calculating change in momentum and speed from force vs. time graphs using this four-question quiz.

An interactive module where students record their ideas in response to questions, and read and manipulate graphs and charts while they learn about velocity-time graphs and position-time graphs.

Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing relative velocity straight to your fingertips. Become the commander of your own learning experiences as you take part in this interactive lesson.

Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing relative velocity straight to your fingertips. Become the commander of your own learning experiences as you take part in this interactive lesson.

This game is designed to help students mentally figure out distances, speeds or time for objects moving at constant speed. A video will help with use of the program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nWhvhO6pXo&feature=youtu.be

A slide show with three accompanying video lesson segments illustrating the difference between speed and velocity, and demonstrating how to calculate average speed and velocity. [6:31]

Velocity or speed? Instantaneous or average? Keep building your physics vocabulary.

How to analyze graphs that relate velocity and time to acceleration and displacement.

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

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Using mathematic equations for speed and velocity students will breakdown one dimensional motion.

In this activity students will collect and analyze data of their walking speed. They will compare their speed to an outside speed walker. They will determine their speed every 20 meters up to 100 meters. They will complete five trials to...

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...

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

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