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Unit 1
lesson 1: Describing Motion

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Write down the lesson objective
and vocabulary.

Students will be able to (SWBAT) :

Determine when an object is in motion.

Lesson Vocabulary;

Motion

Reference point

Distance

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My Planet Diary

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Write Down Your Thoughts!

For thousands of
years, many people
thought Earth was
the center of the
universe. Name one
possible reason why
they thought this.

Use full sentences

Be ready to share
out!!

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Inquiry Warm-up
What is motion

What in the world does this

mean?!?!?

. Lets find out!

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Inquiry Warm-up
What is motion

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Inquiry Warm-up
What is motion

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After the inquiry

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DO NOW

On your packet please quietly answer the first two

questions.

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STEP 3
Before

After

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STEP 3

Using the starting line on the paper as a reference

point, what distance did the toy move?

Using the starting line on the floor, what distance did

the toy move?

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STEP 4
Before

After

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STEP 4

Using the starting line on the paper as a reference

point, what distance did the toy move?

Using the starting line on the floor, what distance did

the toy move?

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NOTES:

When is an Object in Motion?!

An

object is in MOTION if its position

changes relative to another object.

When

you are sitting in a chair

Your position relative to your chair does not
change.
Therefore you could say that you are not in
motion.

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When is an Object in
Motion?!

ORRRRRR

When you are sitting in a chair

You could say you are moving because the earth is

spinning!
You could be moving 30 km/s
IT DEPENDS WHAT YOU ARE REFERING TO!!!

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Tricky tricky.
You

can remember
what a reference
point is by thinking of
it as a point that you
refer to when you
describe the motion of
an object.

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Reference Points
A

reference point is a place or object

used for comparison to determine if
something is moving.

KEY IDEA OF LESSON!

An object is in motion if it changes position relative to a

reference point.

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But WHAT makes a good
reference point???
Objects

that are fixed relative to Earthsuch as a building, a tree, or a signmake good reference points.

You

may already know what happens if

your reference point is moving relative
to Earth..

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But WHAT makes a good
reference point???
Have

you ever been in a car parked next

to another car? Suddenly, you think that
your car is moving backward? When you
look out the window again for a fixed
point, you find that your car is not moving
at all- the other car is moving forward!
Your car seemed to be moving forward
because you had used the other car as a
reference point.

1.Did the car that the

boy is in move, or
did the car in the
back-ground move?
Explain
2.What objects in this
photo make good
reference points??!

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Selection of reference points

The selection of a
reference point
affects the
description of
motion.

Relative Motion

Imagine

you are tossing a ball up and

down while sitting in a chair

in

a car

What does the motion of the ball look

like to you when you are sitting in the
chair?
How about when you
are in the car?

Relative Motion

What does the motion of the ball look like to you when
you are sitting in the chair?

How about when you are in the car?

Relative Motion

Now imagine that someone is standing by the side of

the road watching the car go by.

How does the motion of the ball look to the observer on

the side of the road?!?

Relative Motion

How

does the motion of the ball look to the

observer on the side of the road?!?

Relative Motion

Why

does the motion of the

ball look different to the person
in the car and the person on
the side of the road?!?!

Relative Motion

It

looks different
because the two
people have
different reference
points!!!!!

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Measuring Distance
To

describe motion completely,

you need to use units of
measurement.

Scientists

use a system of measurement called

the International System of Units. (SI)

Distance is the length of the path between two points

SI unit for length is the meter (m).

The distance from the floor to the doorknob is about 1

meter.

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What about small things?!?!?

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What about small things?!?!?
Scientists

use other units to measure

distances much smaller or much larger
than a meter.
The

spider can be measured in

centimeters.

Centimeters
Centimeters

(cm) which has the prefix

(centi-) meaning 100th

Therefore,
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For

there are 100 cm in a meter

there are 100 cents in 1 dollar)

lengths smaller than a centimeter, the

millimeter is used.

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Millimeters
The

prefix milli- means one

thousandth

There

are 1,000 millimeters in a

meter.

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What About Big Things?!?!

Distances much
larger than a
meter can be
measured in
kilometers (km).

The prefix kilomeans one

thousand

Therefore, there
are 1,000 meters
in a kilometer.

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Classwork

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