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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Motion Graphing Speed

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Simple Harmonic Motion: Find Speed, Velocity, Displace From Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice finding speed, velocity, and distance traveled for an oscillator from graphs of simple harmonic motion.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: To Survive at High Velocity

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NOVA looks at speed, velocity, and centripetal force on the racetrack. [6:28]
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eBook
University of California

Ucla: Speed and Velocity

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the meaning of velocity in terms of a graphical representation. Calculus-based discussion. Good graphics.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Motion: Calculating and Graphing Students Walking Speed

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ap Physics: 2.3 Time, Velocity, and Speed

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Time, Velocity and Speed

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Describing Velocity

For Students 6th - 8th
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.
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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Three D's of Speed

For Teachers 5th - 7th
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.
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Activity
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Metric Speed (Velocity)

For Students 3rd - 8th
Simple definitions explain how speed and velocity are related. A brief list of examples will show you different speeds that you observe in real life situations.
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Article
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Speed, Velocity and Acceleration

For Students 2nd - 8th
Discover the difference between speed, velocity, and acceleration. Provides formulas and other interesting facts.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Speed and Acceleration Using Tornado Tubes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: If Superpowers Were Real: Super Speed

For Students 9th - 10th
Is it scientifically possible to have super speed? Find out in this TED Ed series about the science of superpowers. [4:51]
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Practice Calculating Speed & Velocity: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson provides the learner with example problems on calculating the speed and velocity of an object. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Practice Calculating Speed & Velocity."
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Circular Motion & Gravitation: Rotation Angle & Angular Velocity

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to define arc length, rotation angle, radius of curvature, and angular velocity; and to calculate the angular velocity of a car wheel spin.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Virtual Car: Velocity and Acceleration

For Students 9th - 10th
Take control of a virtual car and learn how vectors are used to represent velocity and acceleration in this interactive activity developed for Teachers' Domain.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Physics: Relative Velocity Part 2

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Physics: Relative Velocity Part 3 Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Velocity 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Using mathematic equations for speed and velocity students will breakdown one dimensional motion.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Average Velocity

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this short tutorial, students investigate the meaning of average speed and velocity.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Gears: Determining Angular Velocity

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students work as engineers and learn to conduct controlled experiments by changing one experimental variable at a time to study its effect on the experiment outcome. Specifically, they conduct experiments to determine the angular...
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Handout
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Physics 2000: Speed of Light

For Students 3rd - 8th
Using an interesting and intriguing format, this page discusses the question of "How does one measure the speed of light." Explanation focuses on Galileo's and Roemer's efforts to obtain a reasonable value. Also discusses Heinrich...
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Bay of Whales: Calculating Speed

For Students 3rd - 5th
Amelia is a researcher. She studies the speed of animals. Join her in Antarctica to help her figure these calculations.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Speed & Velocity

For Students 9th - 10th
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]

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