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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Acceleration and Velocity Through Walking Using Paces and Excel

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This has been used for the physics portion of a ninth grade physical science course. This lab experience is designed to give students a conceptual sense of the relationship between one-dimensional distance, velocity and acceleration.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Acceleration and Velocity

For Students 9th - 10th
This site includes practice using the acceleration equation to solve for acceleration, time, and initial or final velocity.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Phys. Science: Calculating Acceleration From Velocity and Time

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How to calculate average acceleration and the SI unit for acceleration.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Calculating Average Acceleration From Graphs

For Students 11th - 12th
Practice calculating acceleration from velocity vs. time graphs
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration

For Students 7th - 9th
Given descriptions, illustrations, graphs, charts, or equations, students will differentiate between speed, velocity, and acceleration.
eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Acceleration

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore illustrated examples and try some practice acceleration problems to better understand this vector quantity in physics.
eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Acceleration vs. Constant Velocity

For Students 9th - 10th
Observe the animation of the three cars. Use the animation to answer three questions about their acceleration and velocity.
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...
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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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Rightward Velocity and Acceleration

For Students 9th - 10th
Through an animated illustration of a dot diagram and time graphs, students learn about positive velocity and positive acceleration.
Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: The Moving Man, Motion, Velocity, Acceleration, Position

For Students 9th - 10th
Enhance study of motion, velocity, acceleration, position and graphing with this interactive simulation.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Student Analysis: Determine the Acceleration of a Toy Car

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this activity, learners measure the displacement and elapsed time of a moving toy car using a direct measurement video with an embedded frame counter. They then calculate average and final velocity, and the average acceleration, and...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Speed and Acceleration Using Tornado Tubes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, young scholars will use a plywood ramp and various tornado tubes (made from tornado tube connectors and 2 liter pop bottles) to calculate the average speed of the tornado tubes. They will set up 4 investigations filling...
Interactive
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Acceleration Challenge

For Students 9th - 10th
Challenges students to get as many vehicle accelerations as possible in a 3 minute time frame. Students must push on the gas to accelerate their vehicle and then use the change in velocity and the change in time to get the acceleration...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Exploring Acceleration Through Vectors

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The goal of this activity is to get learners to think about what is happening when velocity and acceleration vectors point in different directions. The pictures, sentences, and cars used allow the students to picture each situation in...
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Acceleration [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this printable physics learning exercise which allows students to practice problems describing motion using acceleration.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Velocity and Acceleration Vectors

For Students 9th - 10th
This 11-problem quiz/practice helps students to understand how velocity and acceleration can be represented using vectors.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is Centripetal Acceleration?

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn what centripetal acceleration means and how to calculate it. Included are two example problems with solutions.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Are Velocity vs. Time Graphs?

For Students 9th - 10th
How to analyze graphs that relate velocity and time to acceleration and displacement.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Forces and Motion: Acceleration

For Students 3rd - 7th
A video and a short quiz on acceleration.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Velocity Time Graphs

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How to draw a velocity-time graph and what it represents.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Acceleration

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of acceleration and examples.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Acceleration: At a Glance

For Students 9th - 10th
This article talks about how acceleration is the change of velocity as time passes anytime we speed up or slow down, or change direction, we undergo acceleration.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Acceleration Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
Prepare for the MCAT with these acceleration questions.

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