SmartGraphs: Maria's Run

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This middle school activity blends a motion sensor lab with a digital "SmartGraph" tool to help learners understand how forward, fast, and slow motions look on a graph of Position vs. Time. The activity requires a Vernier Go! motion device, which provides inputs to the SmartGraph interface via a USB connection. First, learners record their own movements back and forth, at varying speeds. With hints from the interactive SmartGraph, students explore how the motion appears on a Position vs. Time graph, then work to analyze what they see on the screen. This resource includes a lesson plan and assessment with answer key.

This item is part of the Concord Consortium, a nonprofit research and development organization dedicated to transforming education through technology. The Concord Consortium develops deeply digital learning innovations for science, mathematics, and engineering.

Please note that this resource requires Java.

Editor's Note: This resource is the first of a series of sequenced SmartGraph activities, developed to promote deeper conceptual understanding of graphs and the relationships they symbolize. Users must register on The Concord Consortium to access full functionality of all the tools available with SmartGraphs. The Vernier Go! motion sensor with USB port may be purchased for ~$100.

http://concord.org/activities/marias-run

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - Motion in One Dimension = Position & Displacement = Velocity Education Practices - Technology = Multimedia Other Sciences - Mathematics	- Middle School - High School - Informal Education	- Instructional Material = Activity = Lesson/Lesson Plan = Problem/Problem Set - Dataset - Audio/Visual = Graph

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Restriction:: © 2010 The Concord Consortium
Keywords:: 1D motion, P/T graph, Position vs. Time, Position/Time graph, digital grapher, displacement, distance graphs, graph sketcher, graph tool, motion, motion graph, motion graphing, motion models, one-dimensional motion, velocity graphs
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created April 26, 2012 by Caroline Hall
Record Updated:: September 20, 2012 by Lyle Barbato

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AAAS Benchmark Alignments (2008 Version)

4. The Physical Setting

4F. Motion

3-5: 4F/E1a. Changes in speed or direction of motion are caused by forces.
6-8: 4F/M3a. An unbalanced force acting on an object changes its speed or direction of motion, or both.

9. The Mathematical World

9B. Symbolic Relationships

3-5: 9B/E2. Tables and graphs can show how values of one quantity are related to values of another.

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics Alignments

Standards for Mathematical Practice (K-12)

MP.2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

MP.5 Use appropriate tools strategically.

Expressions and Equations (6-8)

Understand the connections between proportional relationships, lines, and linear equations. (8)

8.EE.5 Graph proportional relationships, interpreting the unit rate as the slope of the graph. Compare two different proportional relationships represented in different ways.

Functions (8)

Use functions to model relationships between quantities. (8)

8.F.5 Describe qualitatively the functional relationship between two quantities by analyzing a graph (e.g., where the function is increasing or decreasing, linear or nonlinear). Sketch a graph that exhibits the qualitative features of a function that has been described verbally.

This resource is part of a Physics Front Topical Unit.

Topic: Kinematics: The Physics of Motion
Unit Title: Velocity and Acceleration

Link to Unit:

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<a href="http://www.thephysicsfront.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=11894">National Science Foundation. SmartGraphs: Maria's Run. Concord: The Concord Consortium, 2010.</a>

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SmartGraphs: Maria's Run (The Concord Consortium, Concord, 2010), <http://concord.org/activities/marias-run>.

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SmartGraphs: Maria's Run. (2010). Retrieved May 25, 2013, from The Concord Consortium: http://concord.org/activities/marias-run

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National Science Foundation. SmartGraphs: Maria's Run. Concord: The Concord Consortium, 2010. http://concord.org/activities/marias-run (accessed 25 May 2013).

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SmartGraphs: Maria's Run. Concord: The Concord Consortium, 2010. National Science Foundation. 25 May 2013 <http://concord.org/activities/marias-run>.

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