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Practice Measuring, Interpreting, and Drawing Motion Time Graphs

Practice Measuring, Interpreting, and Drawing Motion Time Graphs

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Presentation

Science

7th Grade

Practice Problem

Hard

NGSS
MS-PS3-1, MS-PS2-1, MS-PS2-2

Standards-aligned

Created by

Holly Witte

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21 Slides • 11 Questions

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Multiple Choice

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What can you interpret from this graph?

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Runner 2 won the race

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Runner 1 ran at a faster average speed than runner 2

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Runner 2 probably didn’t finish the race

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Runner 2 took the same amount of time to finish the race

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Multiple Choice

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How is velocity different than speed?
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Speed opposes velocity
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Velocity is speed with a direction

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Speed and velocity are the same

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Let's measure runner 1's speed
1. select two points on Line 1
2. divide the distance (y) by Time (x)
3. both sums should match if the line shows constant speed
4. repeate for Line 2

AVERAGE SPEED FOR LINE 1: _______

​AVERAGE SPEED FOR LINE 2: _______

Measuring Distant Time Graphs

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Multiple Choice

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Which section shows the object moving at the fastest average speed?

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A
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B

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D

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Fill in the Blanks

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Multiple Choice

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What is a plausible story for this graph?

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A student was jogging from school to home. She stopped to tie her shoe and take a drink from her water bottle, then continued at the same pace as before.

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A student was jogging from school to home. She walked for a while, then continued jogging.

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A sled rider was going down a hill. The hill was steep at first, then kind of flat. At the end, it was steep again.

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A car was slowing down, then contued moving at a constant rate. Finally, it slowed to a stop,

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Multiple Choice

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Find the average speed represented on this graph. (Hint: total distance divided by total time)

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6 km/min

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0.12 km/min

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10 km/h

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0.1 km/min

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Type answer...

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Drag and Drop

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CALCUTATE THE SPEEDS OF EACH BALL:

Ball A:​


Ball B:​


Ball C:​
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3 m/s
1 m/s
.33 m/s
2 m/s
5 m/s

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Fill in the Blanks

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Draw

Draw the following scenarios:

  1. Blaine arrived at the trail and ran 10 m in 20 sec

  2. He rested for 20 seconds

  3. Then ran 30 meters in 20 seconds

  4. He turned around and arrived back to the trail start in 20 more seconds

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Poll

How Confident Are You About the Measuring, Interpreting, and drawing Motion Time Graphs?

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