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Energy and ATP

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Take charge of your biology class by using this exciting analogy to relate the ATP process with batteries. Pupils use batteries and rubber bands to simulate the phosphate bonds between molecules in the body. They measure the distance in...
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Creating Linear Equations in One Variable

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The example of two travelers meeting somewhere along the road has been a stereotypical joke about algebra as long as algebra has existed. Here in this detailed presentation, this old trope gets a careful and approachable treatment....
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Travel Time and Distance- Fractional Imperial Units

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this time and distance fractional units worksheet, students solve a set of 5 word problems using space provided on worksheet.
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Travel and Time Distance-Metric Units #2

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this travel time and distance activity, students complete a set of 5 word problems, solving in space provided.
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Just How Big is this Place?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students are introduced to the the formula for calculating travel time. They listen to different scenarios relating to long distance travel into space and calculate travel time using the formula.
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Travel Time and Distance-Metric #4

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this time and distance metric units worksheet, learners solve a set of 5 word problems.
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Need For Speed

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students calculate the distance a car travel using CEEBoT. In this algebra lesson, students apply the distance formula to real life scenarios. They use a measuring tape and a formula to measure the distance the ceebot travels.
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Solar Speed

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students perform unit conversion. In this algebra instructional activity, students calculate the distance and speed of a solar car. They graph their result as speed versus distance and analyze it.
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Getting From Here To There

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students plan a driving trip using maps. Working in pairs, students receive a destination card and must create a plan for arriving at their destination using only a map. Trip plans should include, mileage, distance and time...
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Formula Challenge

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this science instructional activity, students name what each of the units listed represent whether it is distance, time, speed, or acceleration. Then they solve each of the word problems that follow, showing all of their work.
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Speed and Collisions Administration Procedures

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils investigate speed as an important variable regarding force of an impact. Students roll a car down a ramp and into a block of wood. The distance the car travels, the time until impact and the distance the block moves are recorded....
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Velocity

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students explore the concepts of velocity, acceleration, distance and football. They collect data on the velocity of a football and they determine the distance and height of a football when it is thrown. Students compare their findings...
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What Can You Do With Motion?

For Students 8th
In this motion worksheet, 8th graders will compare and contrast the travel time, speed, and distance of a slow moving object and a fast moving object.
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Calculating Speed

For Students 9th - 12th
In this speed worksheet, high schoolers calculate the average speed of an object or the distance an object travels at a certain speed in 11 word problems.
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More Practice Calculating Speed

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this speed worksheet, students calculate the average speed of an object or the distance an object travels. This worksheet has 13 word problems.
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Forces and Motion-The Downhill Racer

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students calculate a toy car's velocity and acceleration. For this force and motion lesson, students build ramps and attach a dropper to a toy car, which is released down the ramp. Students calculate and graph velocity and acceleration...
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Charting a New Course

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Young scholars calculate the distance they will travel. In this geometry lesson, students use the TI and CBL system to make calculation of a certain path. They explore geography by calculating distances between different areas as it...
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The Winchester Airport Problem

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this distance/rate/time problem, students find the amount of time a person could walk a given distance. Students are given the time it takes to walk on a moving walkway (both with and against the flow of traffic).
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Airline Passenger

For Students 8th - 11th
In this distance, speed, and time learning exercise, students determine the effect of wind on the time of a flight.  The students answer five questions to help them come to a conclusion regarding the airplanes travel.
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He Came Out Of Nowhere!

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Learners calculate the traveled speed and distance of a robot. In this geometry lesson, students use the distance formula to manipulate and use to solve for the required variable. They calculate answers where two variables are...
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Going to Work Problem

For Students 8th - 10th
In this work problem, students determine the distance between two points when given the time and rate traveled.  This one-page worksheet contains 1 problem. The answer is provided at the bottom of the page.
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Plan a Mission to Recently Discovered Planet

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students plan a mission to a recently discovered planet. In this science lesson, students research spacecraft design, distances in space, long-term missions in space, and life-sustaining planets. Students work in groups to research an...
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Where am I Located

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Young scholars calculate and find a certain location. In this geometry lesson, students examine a coordinate plane for pair of coordinates. They calculate the distance between point using the distance formula and estimation.
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Total Value, Mixture, and Motion Problems, Section 8.3

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this total value worksheet, students read short story problems and write equations to solve the problems. Stories involve formulas such as distance and mixture formulas. A total of 14 problems are available on this two-page worksheet.

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