Position, Motion and Speed Understanding

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Objects Change Position Examine the next few pictures and suggest terms that represent position

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Students review concepts from their reading assignment over position, motion, and speed

Transcript of Position, Motion and Speed Understanding

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Objects Change Position

Examine the next few pictures and suggest terms that represent position

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Map Quest can give exact locations

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How have science and engineering improved our

view on position?

Link to article about history of GPS

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Google Earth View

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Reference Point

Often we describe position based on one location compared to another

How would you describe the

location of South Belt

Wal-Mart using reference points?

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Create a graphic organizer to

compare each type of position

Absolute Position Relative Position

Define

Example

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Motion is a change in position

Brainstorm several additional

examples of motion

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Relative Motion

Motion based on the observer

How would motion compare if you were on the moving train looking out the window or standing on the platform looking into the window? Who appears

to be in motion?

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Video Clip

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Speed measures how fast position Changes

How would you explain speed to a young child?

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Calculating Speed

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Unit for Speed

Bullet traveling 201.2 meters per second (m/s)

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Average vs. Instantaneous Speed

How would you determine the instantaneous speed of this cyclist?

How would you determine the average speed?

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What is the average speed?

How can you use the graph

to describe speed?

What does the slope of the line tell you

about speed?