Teaching: Motion Detector Lab

Students worked to understand how motion detectors work through "doing." Students used the motion of their bodies to understand and interpret the data collected by motion detectors.

Students do not have rigid lab procedures to follow in my Physics classes. Rather, they are encouraged to learn through doing.

In this lab, students completed the handout below, working to use motion detectors and the movement of their bodies to match and interpret graphical data showing displacement vs. time and velocity vs. time.