The Moving Man - Teacher Guide
This PDF document provides the teacher with detailed information relating to "The Moving Man" PhET simulation. It includes instructions on how to use the controls within the simulation, details about how the simulation calculates velocity and acceleration, insights into student use of the simulation and what they might be thinking as they play, and suggestions on how to teach using the simulation.
The simulation described by this resource can be used to reinforce velocity and acceleration as vectors and to help students develop an intuition for how one-dimensional motion can be represented graphically.
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