Speed
Forces and Motion
Thinking about actions to take: Speed
Teaching Guidance
for 11-14
There's a good chance you could improve your teaching if you were to:
Try these
- speaking about duration and distance in order to calculate speed
- using full quantity algebra when calculating speeds
- relating calculations on speed to useful examples
- always being careful about specifying differences (in position, or in clock time) in order to calculate speeds
Teacher Tip: Work through the Physics Narrative to find these lines of thinking worked out and then look in the Teaching Approaches for some examples of activities.
Avoid these
- uncritical use of the word
time
- achieving fluency at the expense of understanding
Teacher Tip: These difficulties are distilled from: the research findings; the practice of well-connected teachers with expertise; issues intrinsic to representing the physics well.
