This lab has students running and having other students time them to calculate velocity and acceleration. Lab includes tables for students to record their data and follow up questions including graphing.
Students will need a place to run (40 meters is good) and have a student with stopwatch ready to time every 10 meters.
This lab was EXTREMELY expensive at $7 and I feel ripped off to be rather frank. For that price, it could have been formatted more professionally and aesthetically (images?) and not be RIDDLED with typos. Word identifies typos in the document itself; so leaving them in there for someone to pay $7 for is just sloppy. Having to go through word by word in the document is hurting my rating for "practicality."
September 10, 2010
Thanks for the feedback, I lowered the price to $5 and have corrected all typos. Sorry about the typos, this was one of my earliest creations done about 9 years ago and I forgot to correct the typos.
September 10, 2010
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What materials are needed to do this?
November 9, 2010
You would need an area marked off every 10 meters for students to run (I take my students out to our high school track), 4 stopwatches and 4 students posted every 10 meters to record time for the distance traveled for 10, 20, 30, and 40 yards. You may need a meter stick to help you mark of 10 meters. Does this help? You then have each student run (or 1 per group) as fast as they can and the timers will all start the stopwatches when you yell "GO" and stop them when they cross each 10 meters. They can then calculate their velocity and accelerations using the distances and times. Let me know if you have any other questions.
Thanks!
Andrea
November 9, 2010
I am in my 11th year of teaching science courses at Glen Este High School in Cincinnati, OH. I have a Masters of Education degree in Quality Teaching Strategies from Graceland University. I am a Master Teacher and have a Teacher Leader endorsement from the state of Ohio. I currently teach Honors Biology and elective courses in Forensics and Anatomy and Physiology. I also have taught Environmental Science and a 9th grade General Science course.
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