Description of Motion

Got your body in motion! Learn how to describe an object in motion.

When Is an Object in Motion?
An object is in motion when its distance from another object is changing. Every object on Earth is moving because Earth is rotating around the sun. We are moving about 30 kilometers every second. That is fast enough to travel from New York City to Los Angeles in about 2 minutes.

Reference Point
Whether or not an object is in motion depends on your chosen reference point.

Science/Force and Motion

Standard 1: The student understands that types of motion may be described, measured, and practiced (SC.C.1.3).

Objective 1: Knows that the motion of an object can be described by its position, direction of motion and speed.

Amusement Park Activity

Earth's Motion Emotion- Pick a star outside while you are watching the fire works and then try to find that star again after they ended did it move?, this is an example of the Earths motion.

Did you know...

The fastest floorless roller coaster
is the Superman Krypton coaster
and it goes seventy miles per
hour. That's not the fastest
in the world though.

Vocabulary

Motion- The act or movement
of moving something.

Speed- The act or state of moving
swiftly

Links

http://www.gallawa.com/
microtech/mwave.html