Speed & Acceleration Activity: The Case of the Vandalized Mascot

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6th - 12th, Homeschool

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Science, Physics, Physical Science

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Worksheets, Activities

Standards

CCSSRST.11-12.9

NGSSMS-PS2-2

NGSSHS-PS2-1

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5 pages

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Students enjoyed doing this activity. It is a great activity for a Friday afternoon or just to make class more fun. A nice break from worksheets.

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***Now compatible with Distance Learning!!!***

Spark your students' interest the next time you teach ACCELERATION with this engaging CSI style activity. Students are presented with a dilemma, the school's mascot has been vandalized with a paintball gun! Crime scene investigators provide the students with important information that they will then use to determine the speed and acceleration of the paintball guns that were collected from suspects. After creating speed and acceleration graphs, students will then derive a verdict from their calculations.

This activity beats the traditional worksheet, while still providing students with the practice that they need to master speed and acceleration concepts. My students love the CSI style, inquiry based teaching that this activity has to offer and teachers ❤️LOVE❤️ the NO-PREP ease of this activity. Included with this activity is a complete teacher answer key.

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CCSSRST.11-12.9

Synthesize information from a range of sources (e.g., texts, experiments, simulations) into a coherent understanding of a process, phenomenon, or concept, resolving conflicting information when possible.

NGSSMS-PS2-2

Plan an investigation to provide evidence that the change in an object’s motion depends on the sum of the forces on the object and the mass of the object. Emphasis is on balanced (Newton’s First Law) and unbalanced forces in a system, qualitative comparisons of forces, mass and changes in motion (Newton’s Second Law), frame of reference, and specification of units. Assessment is limited to forces and changes in motion in one-dimension in an inertial reference frame, and to change in one variable at a time. Assessment does not include the use of trigonometry.

NGSSHS-PS2-1

Analyze data to support the claim that Newton’s second law of motion describes the mathematical relationship among the net force on a macroscopic object, its mass, and its acceleration. Assessment is limited to one-dimensional motion and to macroscopic objects moving at non-relativistic speeds. Examples of data could include tables or graphs of position or velocity as a function of time for objects subject to a net unbalanced force, such as a falling object, an object sliding down a ramp, or a moving object being pulled by a constant force.

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