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Moving Man: Pos and Vel Graphs A gold star indicates high-quality, inquiry-based activities that follow the PhET design guidelines.



Title Moving Man: Pos and Vel Graphs
Description This activity is used to introduce the idea of velocity graphs to students already familiar with position graphs. It has students collect numerical position and velocity data to graph by hand, and has them calculate slopes of the graphs.
Subject Physics
Level High School
Type Lab
Duration 60 minutes
Answers Included No
Language English
Keywords acceleration, data, graphs, position, velocity
Simulation(s) The Moving Man

Author(s) Tom Reeve
Contact Email reevet@lincolnps.org
School / Organization Lincoln High School
Date submitted 2/27/13
Date updated 2/27/13

Comments

I really like the way the activity starts with inviting the students to investigate the sim to make discoveries. The sense making challenges and questions are terrific. I gave this a Gold star!The only thing I would change is having my students make their own independent variable values, but there is a particular emphasis on this skill in our learning community region. Trish   3/2/13

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How did you use this activity or change it for your class? Answer keys are often not available because the activities are inquiry based and lead to multiple answers. Professionally constructive comments welcome.

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