Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Graphing Motion Problem Level 2
Find the distance traveled by an object just by looking at the velocity vs. time graph.
Museum of Science
The Museum of Science: Gadget Anatomy
This site from The Museum of Science presents some compound machines and asks students to identify which simple machines they are composed of. Students provide their answer and receive immediate feedback.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Soccer Kick Challenge
Challenges students to hit as many targets as possible by adjusting the angle of the kick until the angle will create the perfect range for landing on the target.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Distance and Displacement Challenge
Apply the ideas of distance and displacement to move an object using the proper sequence of steps.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Describing Motion With Words
This lesson from the Glenbrook South High School gives a nice review and detailed explanation of velocity, speed, distance, displacement, and acceleration. A good introduction to the "language of Kinematics."
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.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Scalars and Vectors
This illustrated tutorial focuses on several examples of vector and scalar quantities including distance, displacement, speed, velocity, and acceleration.
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.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Motion
This lesson focuses on how to calculate average speed and distance traveled. It also explains how to convert different units of measure and provides a link to an assessment.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Describing Motion Aqa
This lesson focuses on Distance-time graphs; the gradient of a distance-time graph represents the speed of an object.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Distance Between Points in First Quadrant of Coordinate Plane
In this exercise, students practice finding the distance between points in the first quadrant of a coordinate plane. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Absolute Value to Find Distance
Practice taking the absolute value of the difference of two numbers to find the distance between those numbers. Apply this principle to solve word problems. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Olympic Measures
Can you match these records and measurements to the correct event at the Olympic Games? This activity invites students to engage with units of measurement and orders of magnitude, and is aimed at secondary students at Key Stage 3.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Multiplication Involving Distance
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students practice solving word problems that use multiplication to find the distance.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Finding Velocity in a Ground Soccer Kick
Students must determine where a soccer ball will land based on the speed with which it is kicked. Students will also need to find the time in the air and the maximum height obtained by the projectile. This problem does not take place on...
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Ground to Wall Soccer Kick Problem
Students must determine where a soccer ball will hit a wall based on the speed with which it is kicked. Students will also need to find the time in the air in milliseconds. This problem does not take place on Earth.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Soccer Shot Simple
Students must calculate the maximum distance they can be from an soccer net and still hit a randomly generated target. The speed and angle of the kick will be generated randomly.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G Mg the Lighthouse Problem
For this task, students are asked to calculate the height above sea level of a lamp on top of a lighthouse that is visible to a boat, and to examine two other interpretations of the distance from the lighthouse to the boat. Aligns with...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A ced.a.2: Throwing a Ball
Using a ball thrown vertically as the real life scenario, this task has a couple of aspects designed to encourage students to attend to the structure of a given equation and the meaning of the variables in it. Aligns with HSA-CED.A.2.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.f Distance
Eighth graders are presented with the graphs of two cars traveling. One shows distance from home versus time and the other shows speed versus time. Students are to write a description of what might be happening during each car's...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Worked Example Motion Problems With Definite Integrals
Remember, anti derivative of acceleration with respect to time is velocity and anti derivative of velocity with respect to time is distance where acceleration, velocity, distance are all functions of t, the time. This concept is very...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Metric Units of Length Review
Metric units of length (millimeters, centimeters, meters, and kilometers) are reviewed and practice problems are provided.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Distance Formula and the Pythagorean Theorem
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use the distance formula and the pythagorean theorem to determine the quickest route to the treasure. Click learn more to watch a video and click challenge me to answer a practice question.