Big+Ideas+Table


 * **Concepts** || **Themes** ||
 * * Acceleration could be changing speed, changing direction, or both.
 * For quantitative acceleration, the change in velocity must be considered for a given amount of time.
 * **Issues / Debates** || **Problems or Challenges** ||
 * * Students argue that slowing down is not accelerating
 * || * Students struggle to translate lab and real-life experiences to definitions and theory
 * Students fail to consider the aspect of the time interval
 * Students come with the misunderstanding that any change in motion is acceleration.
 * Students believe that if an object is not moving it cannot be accelerating.
 * **Processes** || **Theories** ||
 * * Math operations (∆v/∆t)
 * Graphing
 * **Paradoxes** || **Assumptions or Perspectives** ||
 * * Both + and - acceleration can be observed as an object speeding up.
 * || * Students will come having basic graphing skills
 * Students have a range of life experiences that are types of acceleration that we can refer to.
 * * Both + and - acceleration can be observed as an object speeding up.
 * || * Students will come having basic graphing skills
 * Students have a range of life experiences that are types of acceleration that we can refer to.