Objectives
This 3-4 week unit is designed to elevate high school students’ conceptual understanding of the physical concepts (i.e., distance, displacement, speed, velocity, and acceleration) introduced during the kinematics portion of the unit by solving problem sets, conducting inquiry activities, and familiarizing students with proportional relationships with regard to motion. Topics will follow NGSS standards (see Appendix) as well as DCPS scope and sequence. The unit is subdivided into three sections (i.e., unit conversion using proportional relationships, position using scalar and vector quantities, rate of motion). The unit has a number of objectives to assess student growth including:
- Use units to guide the solution of multistep conversion problems.
- Interpret data describing motion at constant velocity, and develop an algebraic expression that relates velocity to slope.
- Differentiate between speed and velocity through investigations.
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