David Baxter

Distance and displacement are important terms in Physics. They both have to do with the idea of "How far?" but they often lead to different answers. The Distance and Displacement Worksheet provides some good practice by using common, everyday activities and objects such as a baseball diamond, a running track, a cupcake, and a swimming pool.

This instruction guide walks students (and us teachers) through the process of entering data into an Excel spreadsheet and turning it into a line graph. This 10-page guide contains numerous screen shots to help explain each step. The guide can be used along with laboratory investigations and projects common to physics, chemistry, and biology, as well as courses in mathematics, economics, meteorology, sociology, etc. If your students need to learn how to graph the data they collect, this guide w

Metric lengths such as meters, centimeters, millimeters, and kilometers are very important in the science classroom. This worksheet gives students a chance to practice converting between metric units of length and estimating with metric units of length.

This Google Slides presentation can be used in the classroom or as part of a remote learning discussion to help students sort out important concepts for position-time graphs of constant velocity. Each of the seven graphs is presented with a set of two slides. The first slide shows the graph and prompts students to describe and explain the motion of the objects represented in the graph. The second slide provides a summary of true statements that can be made about the objects based on information

Metric masses such as grams, milligrams, and kilograms are very important in the science classroom. This worksheet gives students a chance to practice converting between metric units of mass and estimating with metric units of mass.

Galileo and the Pendulum is a 3-day Power Point presentation that trains students to use the scientific method as they explore the story of Galileo's early pendulum experiments. The presentation leads students to construct their own experiments to show how swing size, mass, and string length affect the period of a pendulum. The presentation also helps students learn to create formal reports based on their experiments. The conclusion of the presentation summarizes their findings, reinforces the s