Motion Warm Ups
Most of my warm ups are designed to be low floor, high ceiling: open ended enough so that anyone can access them, but have room for multiple interpretations and greater complexity.
Cart Graph Matching
Motion matching activity requiring a cart, track, and motion detector.
Usain Bolt's 2008 100 m Race Data
Activity with videos based on Usain Bolt's 2008 100 m Race Data
World's Greatest Drag Race
A discrepant event during a drag race. How could the car with one of the lowest top speeds win the race?
Physics Language Ranking Activity
Rank nine different student descriptions of an object accelerating to understand motion concepts.
Save the Dog & The Getaway Part I
Problem-solving activity with interactive elements and lab components to explore motion concepts.
Solving Algebraically
Exercises for solving algebraically
Proportional Reasoning
Exercises for proportional reasoning. See my "Expel the Intruder Method" here
Problem Set 1.1
A set of problems related to motion.
Problem Set 1.2
More motion problems.
Problem Set 1.3
More motion problems.
Group Motion Problems
Problems good for whiteboarding