Curated OER
Trundle Wheel
Sixth graders explore the uses of a trundle wheel. In this units of measurement lesson, 6th graders use trundle wheels to measure distances.
Curated OER
Centripetal Force
Pupils experiment to show the components that dictate centripetal force in an object. They observe how the object moves in a circular path around a central point.
Curated OER
Motion Through the Ages
Eighth graders conduct internet research to produce a timeline of man's growth in understanding of concepts of motion and planetary motion through history.
Curated OER
Engineering in a Calculus Classroom
Young scholars solve several differential equations. In this calculus lesson, students test their modulus calculation by testing different weights or beam lengths. They share their findings in class.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ap Physics: 2.3 Time, Velocity, and Speed
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Explain the relationships between instantaneous velocity, average velocity, instantaneous speed, average speed, displacement, and time; Calculate velocity and speed given...
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Finding Speed From Work Graph
Students must determine the speed of a hockey puck based on a graph of force vs. displacement.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Finding Speed From Impulse Graph Level 1
Students must calculate the speed of a hockey puck based on the graph of force vs. time for the impact between the stick and the puck.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Finding Speed From Impulse Graph Level 2
Students must calculate the speed of a hockey puck based on the graph of force vs. time for the impact between the stick and the puck.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Physics: Average Velocity and Average Speed From Graphs
Solve problems where you must find the average velocity or speed by analyzing graphs. Hints and helpful videos are available when needed.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Time, Velocity and Speed
In the following interactive module, students will begin to explain the relationships between instantaneous velocity, average velocity, instantaneous speed, average speed, displacement, and time. They will calculate velocity and speed...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Describing Velocity
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Position Time Graphs
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Understand how to evaluate data presented in graphs based on speed and velocity calculations.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Motion Graphing Speed
For 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...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Motion: Calculating and Graphing Students Walking Speed
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...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Maxwell Speed & Velocity Dist.
Adjust the temperature in this simulation to observe the effects to moving particles. Graphs can be created from collected data.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Average Velocity and Speed Review
How to calculate average velocity and speed in one-dimension in word problems.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration
Given descriptions, illustrations, graphs, charts, or equations, students will differentiate between speed, velocity, and acceleration.
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....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Are Velocity vs. Time Graphs?
How to analyze graphs that relate velocity and time to acceleration and displacement.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Position Time Graphs
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How motion and speed can be represented by a distance-time graph and how average speed can be calculated from it.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Motion: Investigating Motion Graphs
In this lesson, students investigate motion graphs. Students predict what the distance-time graph and velocity time graph would look like for a student walking across the room for three different scenarios.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Motion Graph Matching
You will be given a velocity vs. time graph for the motion of a car. Your job is to match the graph with your car by pushing on the gas or brake or coasting at the appropriate moments. Before you start the matching game, you must set the...
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Graphing Motion Problem Level 4
Find out the instantaneous velocity based on a position vs. time graph.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Graph Predictions for Position, Velocity and Acceleration
Learners 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.