Create flipbooks to better understand motion graphs
Overview
This is essentially just an idea for a lesson or sequence of lessons in a physics classroom.
Main lesson idea
Materials:
- thick paper
- pencils
- a way of cutting the paper efficiently into small rectangles of the same size. Each student should get around 30 pieces of paper
Instructions for students:
Have the students imagine the movement of an object, for example a Basketball bouncing up and down or have them observe such a motion.
They will now have to draw a sequence of images showing the changing position of the object. For simplicity the motion of the object should be in a straight line an the "movie" should keep a fixed observer position, so no panning or zooming.
To keep a good reference of the previous position of the object, students can overlay a blank sheet and a drawn object and put it on a window. This should simplify the drawing of the next step in the animation.