3-Aut1-E
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Outcomes
- Pupils can plot distance time graphs
Specification References
1.2 understand and use distance-time graphs
Starter
Main Body of Lesson
- Give out 10 stop clocks and have pupils line up at regular intervals and have something go past them. Could be a ball or something being passed to someone opposite them in the line.
- Record the times on a spreadsheet or on the board and draw a graph. Have pupils describe the motion (e.g. constant or slow to start with then speeding up etc.)
- Can then show with Pasco and position sensor
- Identify the 3 important lines (stationary, constant speed and acceleration/deceleration).
- What does the gradient represent
- What happens if the line is wiggly and we join the first and last points?
