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Deceleration of a Toy Truck

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Eighth graders complete labs using toy trucks to study deceleration, record thier data, and then transfer it to graphing software to produce a graph. They create a lab report of the completed lab using a word processing program.

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8th
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Science
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Duration
3 hrs
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Inquiry-Based Learning
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