Week 1 Blog

In the lab, our big question was discussing how we would decide when to let the Freeze begin to run when racing against the fan picked from the crowd. What our group decided to do was have two people walk and compare their times with meters per second. We picked our tallest and shortest people in the group, and found that the taller girl was walking at a meter per second. We did it at 8 meters, and that is the result we found. Then, when deciding how we should race and when we should have our group member leave compared to the other group’s member was by measurements and not by time. We had Nicole, our group member, leave right away, and the other group’s person left after Nicole had walked a couple of meters, and they ended at the same time! 


I was not able to attend Thursday’s lecture, but I had a chance to go over the annotated slides and learn all about what the lecture was about! This lecture was about describing motion, what students should know and do, and how to measure motion. There are patterns and equations that can help everyone understand motion and how it works, and this can be represented and shown in many different ways. This can be taught to and through students by allowing them to create investigations and play, because this gives them hands-on experience and gives them a chance to come up with their own conclusions. Communication with motion comes with physically doing and having a conversation. 

The weekly textbook reading discussed two benefits when it comes to exact descriptions and measurements of motion. The two benefits are- predicting future motion and knowing whether we understand what we see. When we are talking about distance with someone else, it is important to be distinct to get a clearer picture, which would be helpful when it comes to using a unit of measure. Other necessary requirements when it comes to motion and prediction are- position, direction, speed, and velocity. Having this information helps explain why things are moving the way they are and where they will end up.


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