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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Speed of Pac Man in 2 Dimensions

For Students 9th - 10th
Students must determine the speed of Pac-Man in the x-direction, y-direction and in total. This video describes the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmlIqwAdS-8&feature=youtu.be
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Need for Speed Adventure 2

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use a radio controlled car and weights to record the time of each run and determine velocity. They represent motion graphically and determine the relationship between speed, time, and weight. Students create and interpret...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Conservation of Energy of a Rollercoaster Using High Speed Video

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners use high speed video to determine whether a roller coaster is an example of a system in which mechanical energy is conserved. The activity is intended to give students experience extracting data from video clips, and using...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Designing Fast and Slow Airplanes and Measuring Velocity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, young scholars design their own airplanes and fly them. The challenge is to create a fast plane and a slow plane and compare the speed to the design.
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Interactive
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Velocity From Repulsion Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab was designed to allow students to look at the maximum speed an object can obtain when it is electrically repelled by a like charge.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Tee Time: How Fast Is Your Golf Swing?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Determine how golf club head velocity affects shot distance. Make your next trip to the driving range educational by conducting this experiment.
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Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Extra Practice Quiz Distance, Speed, & Time

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Using these rate of speed problems practice figuring out either the distance, time or speed. Read the interactive quiz rules and then click on the "Begin" ticket. If you answer incorrectly you get one more chance to try again then you...
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Other

Odyssey of the Mind: Up to Speed

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students "learn about vehicles, velocity, angles, and energy," as they participate in a variety of creative and hands-on activities, like building adjustable ramps, researching modes of transportation, and predicting "what transportation...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Butterfly Stroke

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the relationship between velocity and position for a swimmer. Adjust the velocity of the legs, streamline, and arms to experiment with the slope of velocity in the simulation swimmer. Dig a...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Model Rocket

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the relationship between position and velocity for a model rocket during launch and in free-fall. Experiment with rocket mass, rocket thrust, and rocket burn time to understand the...
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Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Ladybug Motion 2 D

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about position, velocity, and acceleration vectors by moving the ladybug. Set the position, velocity, or acceleration, and see how the vectors change.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Timing a Speedbot!

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Students strengthen their communication skills by first learning the meaning of base units and derived units. Then, working in groups, students measure the time for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots and calculate the robots' average speeds at...
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Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Motion in 2 D

For Students 9th - 10th
Try the new "Ladybug Motion 2D" simulation for the latest updated version of the original game. Learn about position, velocity, and acceleration vectors.
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Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Maze Game

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about position, velocity, and acceleration in the "Arena of Pain." Use the green arrow to move the ball. Add more walls to the arena to make the game more difficult. Try to make a goal as fast as you can.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Collision Course (Part 2)

For Teachers 4th - 5th
This is part 2 of a two-part lesson on understanding how speed changes when two objects collide. Students will conduct an experiment, collect data, and draw conclusions about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide....
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Objects in Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides flexible alternate or additional learning activities for students learning about the concepts of distance, speed, and acceleration.
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Study Guide
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Resistance Proportional to Velocity

For Students 11th - 12th
Resistance to forward movement will be proportional to the velocity of the object. That relationship can be expressed by an equation that you can learn about on this page. Great review for the AP Calculus test!
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Velocity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity will test a student's understanding of the relationships between location and motion as pertaining to time.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Physics: Kinematics

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] An online chapter focused on motion and the shapes it takes. Topics range from speed and velocity to acceleration and free fall. Find detailed visuals, learning...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Displacement During Constant Acceleration

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students solve problems involving displacement, distance, velocity, speed, and acceleration, and then explore problems and graphs involving one-dimensional motion.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Distance and Speed of Rolling Objects

For Students 9th - 10th
This project is an experiment in classical physics. You'll be following in Galileo's footsteps, and investigating Newton's laws of motion, but you'll be taking advantage of modern video recording technology to make your measurements. The...
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Handout
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: 1 Dimensional Kinematics

For Students 6th - 8th
An activity in which average speed is calculated for a ball sliding along an inclined plane. This speed is compared to various instantaneous speeds along the incline.
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Middle School Science

Middle School Science: Motion Notes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Personal site in which a teacher outlines a unit on motion. Probes through topics such as average speed, velocity, acceleration, speed, deceleration, force and more.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Graphing Motion Problem Level 3

For Students 9th - 10th
Find the displacement of an object just by looking at the velocity vs. time graph. This graph will have at least one negative region and one positive region.

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