Description
This bundle contains five separate products for introducing velocity, average speed, and acceleration using editable powerpoints, task cards (in PDF and Google Slides), worksheets, a lab, and logic puzzles. In all, this bundle contains:
- Velocity and Acceleration Task Cards Word Problems & Graphing (use all year!)
- Average Speed Calculation Lab
- Three different logic puzzles on speed and acceleration
- Two editable powerpoints on velocity and acceleration that use calculations, graphing, and models to teach the concepts
- Four worksheets/extra practice/extensions on velocity and acceleration
Task Cards
The task card set is 32 cards arranged 4 to a page with velocity and acceleration word problems and graphing tasks. If your prefer to assign the task cards as a digital assignment, there is a Google Slides version with locked backgrounds and place for students to enter their answer. Great for assigning a few at a time or as a week-long project to do a few each day.
Great for extra practice, review, a quick bell-ringer, sub plans, group work, or for differentiation at a station. I've also used them in game-type settings with the whole class in groups and as an informal formative assessment. Gets my students away from worksheets that can get monotonous or be overwhelming and "chunks" out the work.
Some of the questions are very straight forward, requiring only that the students know how to get information out of a word problem, apply it to the correct formula, and solve. Other questions - especially the graphing questions - will require the student has a grasp of the concepts of motion and displacement.
The Powerpoints
Fully editable and recently updated, one 34 slide powerpoint on velocity that uses calculations, sample problems, graphing, and strobe models to describe velocity and a 24 slide powerpoint (also fully editable and recently updated) that uses the same methods to introduce acceleration.
All of my powerpoints include animations so that you can control the dialog and not lose students to the dreaded, head-down-madly-copying-without-thinking powerpoint syndrome. There are built-in opportunities for students to predict, turn-and-talk, and truly make sense of the content.
Calculating Average Speed Lab
The average speed calculation lab is always one of my student’s favorite labs of the year. It is a simple yet effective lab where students create rotocopters from the included template and investigate the variables that affect the rotocopter's falling speed. This lab will reinforce the concept of independent and dependent variables AND introduce (or review) speed, average speed, and even terminal velocity.
Students will manipulate the size and shape of the rotocopter's wings and body and record the time and distance the rotocopter falls. This lab is fabulous as an introduction or review of speed concepts and it can also be used as a stand-alone lab to practice inquiry skills. Additionally, the lab requires little in the way of supplies: the model template is included as are instructions and answer keys. Your students will need the template, a pair of scissors, a paper clip, and some sort of timing device. Also included in this product is student instructions for doing the lab in a guided fashion and guidance sheets if you prefer to have your students approach this lab as an inquiry-based activity.
Logic Puzzles - Three different puzzles!
Two speed puzzles in one - each logic puzzle gives distance traveled and total time for six students and asks students to determine the average speed of each student. One version is in meters and seconds only, the other is the same puzzle but requires students to make metric conversions from the given information (km to m, cm to m, mm to m, hours to seconds, minutes to seconds). Great for differentiation or whole class because the answers are the same :)
I love this puzzle because I find that my students have a difficult time with the language of time and distance - they sometimes struggle with whether “how far” is time or distance, for example. This puzzle gives them plenty of opportunities to practice or review that skill.
An additional speed logic puzzle is a part of the average speed lab - great for early finishers - and my brand new acceleration logic puzzle that asks students to calculate the acceleration of five different cars using clues about initial and final velocity.
All of the logic puzzles are super versatile! Great as bellringer activites, a review before an exam, part of an emergency lesson plan when you have to be out unexpectedly, as a puzzle/extra credit for your students that finish an assessment before other students, or even for those last twenty minutes before the bell.
The preview file is a full length pdf version of everything in this bundle except answer keys.
I have many other great products for supporting Secondary Science here on TpT. Here are a few of my best-sellers:
Velocity & Acceleration: Notes, Lab, Task Cards, Worksheets, & Logic Puzzles
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Description
This bundle contains five separate products for introducing velocity, average speed, and acceleration using editable powerpoints, task cards (in PDF and Google Slides), worksheets, a lab, and logic puzzles. In all, this bundle contains:
- Velocity and Acceleration Task Cards Word Problems & Graphing (use all year!)
- Average Speed Calculation Lab
- Three different logic puzzles on speed and acceleration
- Two editable powerpoints on velocity and acceleration that use calculations, graphing, and models to teach the concepts
- Four worksheets/extra practice/extensions on velocity and acceleration
Task Cards
The task card set is 32 cards arranged 4 to a page with velocity and acceleration word problems and graphing tasks. If your prefer to assign the task cards as a digital assignment, there is a Google Slides version with locked backgrounds and place for students to enter their answer. Great for assigning a few at a time or as a week-long project to do a few each day.
Great for extra practice, review, a quick bell-ringer, sub plans, group work, or for differentiation at a station. I've also used them in game-type settings with the whole class in groups and as an informal formative assessment. Gets my students away from worksheets that can get monotonous or be overwhelming and "chunks" out the work.
Some of the questions are very straight forward, requiring only that the students know how to get information out of a word problem, apply it to the correct formula, and solve. Other questions - especially the graphing questions - will require the student has a grasp of the concepts of motion and displacement.
The Powerpoints
Fully editable and recently updated, one 34 slide powerpoint on velocity that uses calculations, sample problems, graphing, and strobe models to describe velocity and a 24 slide powerpoint (also fully editable and recently updated) that uses the same methods to introduce acceleration.
All of my powerpoints include animations so that you can control the dialog and not lose students to the dreaded, head-down-madly-copying-without-thinking powerpoint syndrome. There are built-in opportunities for students to predict, turn-and-talk, and truly make sense of the content.
Calculating Average Speed Lab
The average speed calculation lab is always one of my student’s favorite labs of the year. It is a simple yet effective lab where students create rotocopters from the included template and investigate the variables that affect the rotocopter's falling speed. This lab will reinforce the concept of independent and dependent variables AND introduce (or review) speed, average speed, and even terminal velocity.
Students will manipulate the size and shape of the rotocopter's wings and body and record the time and distance the rotocopter falls. This lab is fabulous as an introduction or review of speed concepts and it can also be used as a stand-alone lab to practice inquiry skills. Additionally, the lab requires little in the way of supplies: the model template is included as are instructions and answer keys. Your students will need the template, a pair of scissors, a paper clip, and some sort of timing device. Also included in this product is student instructions for doing the lab in a guided fashion and guidance sheets if you prefer to have your students approach this lab as an inquiry-based activity.
Logic Puzzles - Three different puzzles!
Two speed puzzles in one - each logic puzzle gives distance traveled and total time for six students and asks students to determine the average speed of each student. One version is in meters and seconds only, the other is the same puzzle but requires students to make metric conversions from the given information (km to m, cm to m, mm to m, hours to seconds, minutes to seconds). Great for differentiation or whole class because the answers are the same :)
I love this puzzle because I find that my students have a difficult time with the language of time and distance - they sometimes struggle with whether “how far” is time or distance, for example. This puzzle gives them plenty of opportunities to practice or review that skill.
An additional speed logic puzzle is a part of the average speed lab - great for early finishers - and my brand new acceleration logic puzzle that asks students to calculate the acceleration of five different cars using clues about initial and final velocity.
All of the logic puzzles are super versatile! Great as bellringer activites, a review before an exam, part of an emergency lesson plan when you have to be out unexpectedly, as a puzzle/extra credit for your students that finish an assessment before other students, or even for those last twenty minutes before the bell.
The preview file is a full length pdf version of everything in this bundle except answer keys.
I have many other great products for supporting Secondary Science here on TpT. Here are a few of my best-sellers:
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