Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration
Given descriptions, illustrations, graphs, charts, or equations, students will differentiate between speed, velocity, and acceleration.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Velocity and Acceleration Vectors
This 11-problem quiz/practice helps students to understand how velocity and acceleration can be represented using vectors.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Graph Predictions for Position, Velocity and Acceleration
Students interactively create predictions of position, velocity, and acceleration graphs using java applets. The applets automatically classify student answers, so instructors can create graphs of student predictions.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Position, Velocity and Acceleration
This 9-problem quiz/practice helps students understand how position, velocity and acceleration are related.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Using Velocity and Acceleration Vectors to Interpret the Motion of a Car
Students understand that vectors have both magnitude and direction components as they investigate velocity and acceleration vectors.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Rightward Velocity and Acceleration
Through an animated illustration of a dot diagram and time graphs, students learn about positive velocity and positive acceleration.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Position, Velocity, and Acceleration [Pdf]
Students investigate the position, velocity, and acceleration graphs. The graphs are available in PDF format.
Math Graphs
Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Position, Velocity, and Acceleration [Pdf]
Students examine the graphs of the position, velocity, and acceleration functions of a particle. The example is available in PDF format.
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.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Exploring Acceleration Through Vectors
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...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: The Moving Man, Motion, Velocity, Acceleration, Position
Enhance study of motion, velocity, acceleration, position and graphing with this interactive simulation.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Student Analysis: Determine the Acceleration of a Toy Car
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...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Speed and Acceleration Using Tornado Tubes
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...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Motion Graphing Speed
In this introduction to motion activity, students will get a personal understanding of speed and acceleration by experiencing it firsthand. Wheeled office chairs or other cart like devices are used to give one student a ride as a fellow...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Irwin and Ruthie
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the relationship between position, velocity, and acceleration for two objects in one-dimensional motion. Experiment with varying approaches to the race for both Irwin and Ruthie to see how...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Maze Game
Learn about position, velocity, and acceleration in the "Arena of Pain." Use the green arrow to move the ball. Add more walls to the arena to make the game more difficult. Try to make a goal as fast as you can.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Acceleration and Velocity
This site includes practice using the acceleration equation to solve for acceleration, time, and initial or final velocity.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Centripetal Acceleration?
Learn what centripetal acceleration means and how to calculate it. Included are two example problems with solutions.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Are Velocity vs. Time Graphs?
How to analyze graphs that relate velocity and time to acceleration and displacement.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Forces and Motion: Acceleration
A video and a short quiz on acceleration.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Calculating Average Acceleration From Graphs
Practice calculating acceleration from velocity vs. time graphs
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Velocity Time Graphs
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How to draw a velocity-time graph and what it represents.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Acceleration
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of acceleration and examples.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Acceleration: At a Glance
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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