Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Motion: Calculating and Graphing Students Walking Speed
In this activity students will collect and analyze data of their walking speed. They will compare their speed to an outside speed walker. They will determine their speed every 20 meters up to 100 meters. They will complete five trials to...
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Thermal Speed Lab
This lab is designed to have students learn the factors affecting the RMS velocity for a sample of gas. The student will be able to set the temperature of the environment and the mass of the particles.
Other
Plan to Learn: Kinematics 1: Speedometer Cubed Lab (Physics)
Determine the speed of an object using three different methods and to compare the accuracy and precision of the results of each method.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Acceleration and Velocity Through Walking Using Paces and Excel
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.
Other
Algebra Lab: Word Lesson: Vectors Right Triangles Components and Resultants
Solve problems using vectors that involve velocity, speed, direction, and magnitude. Includes examples and practice problems. Click on the buttons under the practice questions to see the solutions.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Velocity From Repulsion Lab
This lab was designed to allow students to look at the maximum speed an object can obtain when it is electrically repelled by a like charge.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Work to Ke Lab
This lab is designed to have students discover the relationship between the work that is done by a force and the speed gained by the object experiencing the force. Students can adjust the strength of the force. They can decide how much...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Bullet Speed
This tutorial takes a shot at explaining how circuits can be used to measure things beyond the capacity of human senses.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Discovering Velocity Outside of the Classroom
A physics lab activity where students gather data from classmates running at different rates on a football field. They then share their gathered data and transfer it to a graphing program to ultimately calculate average velocity.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Hot Wheelin' With Speed, Acceleration, and Data Graphs
In this lab, students investigate the motion of toy cars and collect data to analyze the speed of the vehicle between various points and overall speed.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Circular Friction Test Track
This lab is designed to have students find the relationships that affect the maximum speed a car can go around a turn. Students will be able to modify the tires, road surface, the mass of the car, radius of the turn and the initial speed...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Two Dimensional Motion and Conservation of Energy
For this physics lab students look at conservation of energy to find the horizontal velocity of a sphere in order to predict where it will land.
Middle School Science
Middle School Science: Motion Notes
Personal site in which a teacher outlines a unit on motion. Probes through topics such as average speed, velocity, acceleration, speed, deceleration, force and more.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Analyzing the Motion of a Marble Down a Ramp
This lab activity involves rolling a marble down a ramp where the students can investigate constant acceleration motion. The students then make a position vs. time graph and a velocity vs. time graph in order to investigate the change in...
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota: Applications of Waves in Your Everyday Life
This site offers a variety of everyday activities and everyday experiences in which waves or sound waves play a role.