Instantaneous Vs Average

Today we introduce the concept of instantaneous speed versus average speed. I told them that average speed will haunt them for the rest of their physics career. I also got some art to go along with my formulas. 

2016-2017 New Year Update

I am renewing my commitment to updating this blog to show what we are doing. It's nothing special but I need to do a better job of showing the madness we create. 

As tradition dictates we always start school playing with Hot Wheels that morphs into our first full blown lab.  This lab makes the students design an experiment that tests 3 things that might effect the speed of the Hot Wheels. It's their first taste of an inquiry lab. They seems to struggle at first then they come around.