Week 2 Blog Post

Lab Week 2 Summary: For week 2 lab, we discussed and went into the idea of how to support play that is exciting but not dangerous through races specifically. So in lab, we practiced a specific exercise that meant acting out a plan to figure out how to make a race exciting between people who run at different speeds. In the end, we had to plan out how to plan a model where two racers finish at the same time even if one runner is slower than the other time we had to figure out ideas of motion and if someone gets a head start or not.

Thursday Lecture Summary: Talked about the ideas of modeling races, and what is needed to put a race together. The idea of speeds is important in how the race will unfold and also based upon how long the distance that will be covered is. We also reviewed the NGSS standards and what things would like like when it comes to making observations between different object's motions. To carry out a good investigation we took away that it is important to make observations to test out a solution for what the outcome will be. The biggest thing that I was reminded of is that different objects have different force and motions that results in different speeds and momentums which makes a big difference in future motions. We discussed how to measure speed and it was again a good reminder of how speed is reminded by doing distance over time. That being said time and distance are crucial in science in leading to different values and details. As future educators, we should give kids the chance to fully dive into science and make predictions on outcomes of things that will take place in terms of motion due to lots of external and internal factors.

Textbook Reading Reflection: 

1. What did you Learn? From this textbook reading, I learned all about Motion and all about describing and measuring motion as well. I learned about all the differing types of motion and some of those are classified as anything like rising, falling, swinging, bouncing, twirling, etc. The biggest way we can dive into ideas of motion is by using measurements to locate the speed of motion.

2. What was most helpful? I thought it was the most helpful when I heard about the two benefits of predicting future motion and knowing if we understand what we see or not. This was most helpful in giving more confidence in making sure we know how the motion evolves over time.

3. What do you need more information on? I need more information on truly how to make sense of making sense of speed vs velocity what that means in terms of different races that somebody runs and if it is more important to have more speed or velocity.

4. What questions/comments/concerns do you have? None currently


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