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    This lesson plan has students measure their walking speed over a set distance to learn about speed and velocity. Students will work in pairs to time each other walking the distance of 88 feet over three trials. They will use stopwatches to measure time and calculate their walking speed in feet per second. Back in the classroom, students will analyze the class data and discuss ways to increase their walking speed. The goal is for students to make a real-world connection between speed concepts learned in class.

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    This lesson plan has students measure their walking speed over a set distance to learn about speed and velocity. Students will work in pairs to time each other walking the distance of 88 feet over three trials. They will use stopwatches to measure time and calculate their walking speed in feet per second. Back in the classroom, students will analyze the class data and discuss ways to increase their walking speed. The goal is for students to make a real-world connection between speed concepts learned in class.

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    This lesson plan has students measure their walking speed over a set distance to learn about speed and velocity. Students will work in pairs to time each other walking the distance of 88 feet over three trials. They will use stopwatches to measure time and calculate their walking speed in feet per second. Back in the classroom, students will analyze the class data and discuss ways to increase their walking speed. The goal is for students to make a real-world connection between speed concepts learned in class.

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    Danielle Jackson

    Unit: Gravity
    Lesson: Speed and Velocity (How Fast Can You Walk)
    Grade Level: 7
    Goal: Students will be able to formulate a connection with speed and velocity during a real life,
    hands-on activity.
    Objectives:
    1. The students will
    accurately measure
    length and time.
    2. Students will be able
    to identify and work
    with rational numbers
    and decimals.
    3. The students will also
    be able to estimate
    and round.
    4. Students will be able
    to use observation
    skills to collect and
    record data.
    5. Students will also be
    able to interpreting
    data.

    Standards/ Assessment
    Anchors:
    1. Make sense of problems
    and persevere in solving
    them. (Common Core
    Practice)
    2. Use appropriate tools
    strategically. (Common
    Core Practice)
    3. Measurement (NCTM)
    4. Mathematical
    Connections (NCTM)
    5. CC.2.1.5.B.1 Apply
    place-value concepts to
    show an understanding
    of operations and
    rounding as they pertain
    to whole numbers and
    decimals. (PA State
    Common Core
    Standards)

    Formative Assessment:
    1. Collecting attached
    worksheet from
    each student.
    2. Asking students
    what they can do to
    increase their
    terminal velocity.
    3. Homework:
    Students make
    graph of data.

    Rationale: It is important that students are able to experience speed and velocity through real
    life experience. This will allow them to apply what they learn in the classroom to the real world.
    Content Knowledge:
    Prior Knowledge: Speed and Velocity
    Current Knowledge: Terminal Velocity
    Future Knowledge: Gravity (Newtons Laws)
    Procedure: Lesson Beginning: (Classroom) Good Morning class, last class we discussed speed
    and velocity. Today we will be conducting and physically becoming apart of an experiment to
    help us further our understanding with speed and velocity. The teacher will then give students
    instructions to how the experiment should be done. I will draw an example of the course will
    look like.

    Get up to speed!

    88 feet

    30 feet

    safety overrun
    30 feet

    Start

    Finish

    The get up to speed segment of the track is for students to reach their fastest sustained walking
    velocity before they reach the starting line. Each partner will take the other persons starting and
    finishing times at the start and finish line. This means the stopwatch starts when the student
    crosses the start line and the stopwatch ends when the student crosses the finish line. Each
    student will walk the track three times for three trials. Present worksheet to classroom and inform
    them that they only need to fill the first chart out while outside. Students will also only have to
    round to the nearest foot and nearest second.
    Lesson Development: (Outside) Class, this is the starting line (standing at the starting line) and
    this is the finish line (sending a students over to stand at the finish line). If you could walk from
    this Start line to the Finish line, 88 feet away, in exactly one second, you would be traveling at 60
    miles per hour. I will then give students the opportunity to respond to the statement or ask
    additional questions. I will then assign students with partners and allow them to explore the
    experiment on their own. During this time I will visit each pair and also monitor the classroom
    for behavioral purposes.
    Lesson Ending: (Classroom) Students will gather back to their seats with their partner and finish
    calculations at their desk on the worksheet given. Students will also be responsible during this
    time to finish numbers 4, 5, and 6. When students have their walking terminal velocity in feet per
    second have them write it on the board with their initials under it. End class with a class
    discussion on number six, What do you think you could do to increase your walking terminal
    velocity? Ok Class, the homework for tomorrow will be to use the classs data and make a
    graph of the data using your own creativity!
    If-time Activity: Students will begin the next class activity. (How Fast Can You Run?)
    Materials:

    Masking Tape
    Stopwatch
    Attached Worksheet

    References:
    Title: Gravity Rules (AIMS Project Team)
    Authors: Betty Cordel, John Ervin, Ronald Koop, Tracey Lieder, Renee Mason, Johann Weber,
    and Jim Wilson.
    Publisher: 1998 AIMS Education Foundation
    Mode: Students will work in pairs of two during the activity
    Special Adaptions: Some students may not be able to run due to physical disabilities. Those
    students will have the choice of having someone be their runner and they will use their
    measurement and time to create their own three trials.

    Anticipated Difficulties: Some students may not have accurate measurements and that will
    create a flaw in the overall data. Also students who have weak mathematics skills may affect the
    overall data.
    Reflection:

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