Stopping Distances, Terminal Velocity and Elasticity

Three lessons in one to try to encourage active and independent learning. The challenge and race element to the lesson really engaged a bottom set of disaffected Y11 boys.

Students complete one of the starter activities about braking and stopping; thinking and braking distances or terminal velocity. They then have to start with the one that they ignored in the starter for the main part of the lesson. The key points of information for the three topics are given in note form but students will need to use textbooks to supplement it. The make notes on each topic, answering the questions and then self-assessing them. The question and answer slides in the power point will need to be printed out onto different colour paper for the students to help themselves to during this part of the lesson.

I ran this as a challenge whereby I had a results table on the board and students recorded their marks for the each of the sets of questions and a prize was awarded for the first to finish and the highest total score.

Once this section, has been completed, the elasticity topic is introduced to the whole class before some questions are given to check that they can use the equation.