I.

Objectives :
At the end of the lesson, students should be able to

Describe the motion of an object in terms of distance or displacement, speed or velocity and
acceleration.

II. Contents:
Topic: Describing Motion
Grade Level: grade 7
Grading Period: Third Quarter
Time Allotment: 40 minutes

III. Procedure:
A. Elicit (5 mins.)
Walk across the room and ask the students how they know you are moving. Illustrate
another motion such as raising your hand or jumping up and down.

B. Engage (5 mins.)

Say: Many of the things around us move. Some move slowly like the turtles, others move
much more quickly like satellites.

How can we know that the object is in motion? (There is a movement of an object from
one location to another.)

C. Explore (10 mins.)

Imagine describing a car trip. Each sentence about the car trip describes an aspect of the
car’s motion that lends rich and complex detail to the description.

Activity 1
Just My Imagination
 I took a trip from Northfield to Milltown. (Motion have a starting point and an
ending point.)
 I traveled west. (Motion have direction.)
 I travelled through Black Pond and summit. (Motions follow path.)
 Between Northfield and Black Pond the road was straight but between Summit
and Milltown the road wound its way down the mountainside. (The path of
motion can be straight or curved.)
 I travelled 261 kilometers. (Motions cover a distance.)
 The trip took 3 hours. (Motions have duration.)
 My average speed was 87 kilometers per hour. (Motions have an average speed.)
 I slowed down while driving through the town of Black Pond, but speed up
when I got on the highway outside of town. (Motion have an instantaneous
speed that may be different from an average speed.)

D. Explain (5 mins. )
Discuss the answer in the activity.

E. Elaborate (5 mins.)
The teacher explains…
 Motion always takes time, no matter how fast the object moves, it takes some
time to travel from one place to another.
  Things move in many different ways, including straight, zigzag, round and round,
back and forth, fast and slow.
 The way to change how something is moving is a push or a pull.

F. Evaluate (8 mins.)
Agree or Disagree?
1. Sitting on a chair is an example of motion. (Disagree)
2. Driving a car involved speed. (Agree)
3. There is motion when you push the table. (Agree)
4. Distance refers to the length of the entire path that the object travelled. (Agree)
5. In every motion, there is no displacement. (Disagree)

G. Extend (2 mins.)

Students are ask to make a map from their home to school.