Hi everyone,
Just working through some of my lessons in preparation for using them in second semester.
This forum doesn't (yet) seem to be a place where there are enough of us to generate some discussion and provide feedback on lessons, but I'm hoping!
This is a lesson using some animations to talk about position time graphs.
It's long, but hopefully "interesting".
If anyone does look at it, feedback is welcomed!
Below is a link to the file in my Dropbox folder.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24411154/Sample ... /Begin.cdf
TOM
Position/Time graph story problems intro
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Position/Time graph story problems intro
by Tom_DeVries » Fri Oct 21, 2011 7:47 pm
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Re: Position/Time graph story problems intro
by Michael_Morrison » Sat Oct 22, 2011 2:20 am
Tom,
I'm actually really impressed by that 7-Eleven logo --- it looks pretty darn good for a freehand drawing!
One thing that might help with the models is to use Appearance -> "Labeled" for the seconds controller. That way, students wouldn't have to expand the animation to see the value for the slider (even though you made a point to remind them about the animation controls at the beginning of the presentation, I thought they might forget that).
And you can use free-form input to do the unit conversion really easy: just type an equal sign, then something like "5km/hour to meters/second," and evaluate to get an answer.
Overall, though, I found this to be a fun lesson and one that I think your students will enjoy.
Regards,
Michael
I'm actually really impressed by that 7-Eleven logo --- it looks pretty darn good for a freehand drawing!
One thing that might help with the models is to use Appearance -> "Labeled" for the seconds controller. That way, students wouldn't have to expand the animation to see the value for the slider (even though you made a point to remind them about the animation controls at the beginning of the presentation, I thought they might forget that).
And you can use free-form input to do the unit conversion really easy: just type an equal sign, then something like "5km/hour to meters/second," and evaluate to get an answer.
Overall, though, I found this to be a fun lesson and one that I think your students will enjoy.
Regards,
Michael
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