Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region VI – Western Visayas
Capiz National High School
City of Roxas

Name: _________________________________________________ Gr.&Sec.: ________________________Date: ___________Rating: _________

Activity No. ___

Graph It! (Ticker Tape Chart)
Objective/s:
Construct a ticker-tape chart and convert it into a velocity-time graph.
Materials
 Bondpaper
 Pencil
 Pair of scissors
 Glue or paste
Procedure:
1. Trace the tape chart (given by the teacher) similar to Figure 1 below and cut it into a strip.
2. Label each dot. Start from 0, then 1, 2, 3, and so on. In this example, each dot occurred every 1 second.

Figure 1. A Tape Chart Representing the Motion of the Car

3. Examine the distances between successive dots.

4. Cut the strip at each dot, starting from the first to the last dot, and paste them side by side (on the back
page of this activity sheet) to form a tape chart as shown in the figure below.

Note:

Figure 2. Sample velocity-time graph

5. Join the mid-points of the top of each tape with a line. You have now converted your tape chart into a
velocity-time graph.

Guide Questions:

Q1. How do the lengths of the tapes compare?

A. Different and decreasing B. Different and increasing
Q2. What does each tape represent?
A. Acceleration B. Velocity
Q3. How does your velocity-time graph look like?
A. Curved B. Diagonal
Q4. How will you interpret this graph in terms of the velocity and acceleration of the moving car? The object is
___________.
A. accelerating B. moving at constant velocity

Conclusion: