Lance Atkinson

This four to five day lesson is an individual or team design project. Students practice engineering and scientific principles through research, design, building, testing and reflection. For high school, the final drop day can be from the bleachers.

This lesson plan uses the researched based learning strategy of engage, explore, explain, elaborate and evaluate to take students through an investigation on how motion is measured. The core principle of all concepts of force, energy and technology is how we measure and define motion. Students will use real world scenarios and lab investigations to develop a fundamental relationship between position, velocity and acceleration.

This is a guided worksheet that gives students the formulas they need to solve the problems. The problems are randomized to ensure students think about the problem and decide which formula they need. There are also enough problems for the teacher to work some problems with the students as examples before letting them complete it independently.