Lesson Plan

Lesson: Rectilinear motion: Graphical Representation and Interpretation

Aim: To enable the student to make graphical representation and interpretation of rectilinear motion.

Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the lesson, student should be able to:

1. define displacement, speed, velocity and acceleration

2. sketch and use displacement-time graph for motion of a body
3. sketch and use velocity-time graph for motion of a body
4. interpret displacement-time graph and velocity-time graph

Assumed Prior Knowledge

1. Understand the basic physical quantities and SI units for time, distance, displacement, speed and
velocity
2. Able to differentiate between scalars and vectors

Underlying Principles

1. Illustrating a concept through visual

2. Relating a physical phenomena with graph
3. Interpreting graphs

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 Development of Lesson

No. Steps Strategy Resources

1. Set Induction • Teacher allows a toy car to • Electrical or
move in front of a class. friction toy
• Teacher invite one student to car
explain the motion of the car
• Teacher explains what they are
going to learn in that lesson
2. Student activity • Teacher projects activities of • LCD projector
Lesson 1 on the screen • Teacher lap
Summary of activity • Teacher starts Activity 1 in top computer
Lesson 1 by following the • Course
instruction in the program and
follows by questions and
answers.
• Teacher may invite students to
click the buttons
• Teacher together with the
students summarize the
lesson using the summary slide

3. Evaluation • Teacher distributes the • Printed copy

worksheets to the students of the
• In pairs they are asked to worksheets
complete the worksheets
• Group selected at random are
asked to present their work.
The other students are asked to
comment.
4. Extension activity • Students are asked to look for • suggested
further information by websites
• 1)surfing the internet • recommende
• 2)looking up references d references

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 Works heet Ans wers

1 R elating motion to graph s hapes

1. 1(a) (b)
s s
0
t

0
t

(c) T he angle made by the two s traight lines with the x-axis is the s ame s ince they
have the s ame s peed.

1.2(a) (b)
v v

0 0
t t

(c) T hey have s ame value of v on the y-axis .

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