Motion Graph Scavenger Hunt

In the Motion Graph Scavenger Hunt, each of the twelve questions in a google form describe a motion graph that appears on a poster. Depending on the prompt, some questions have more than one possible answer that students can submit while others only have one answer that satisfies the prompt. All eighteen options are hung up around the room or posted as separate images in a google site for students to peruse as they complete the form.

For this scavenger hunt, each poster features a famous scientist and students submit their answers by typing in the name of the scientist next to the graph that they've chosen. If they type the name of a scientist whose graph does not satisfy the prompt, the data validation catches it and displays the warning message "Try Again :)". Students will not be able to submit the form until they get all questions correct. For information about how to set up the google form in this way, check out this blog post about Creating a Google Form Scavenger Hunt. 

The screen shots below show what the form looks like when students enter an answer correctly and incorrectly. Since the poster with Katherine Johnson is the only one in this set that depicts a velocity graph that is moving in the negative direction and speeding up, the google form won't accept anything but "Johnson" for that question

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Motion Scavenger Hunt Files

Motion Graph Scavenger Hunt (pdf)
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File Type:	pdf

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Motion Graph Scavenger Hunt (editable)
File Size:	5484 kb
File Type:	pptx

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Google Form Links

• ​Motion Graph Scavenger Hunt​ Google Form
• ​Motion Graph Scavenger Hunt​ Google Form (editable copy)

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Virtual Scavenger Hunt

To make this scavenger hunt possible in an all virtual environment, I put together a google site so that students can view the different posters and the google form without having to have multiple devices or tabs open. 

Click Here to for the Virtual Motion Graph Scavenger Hunt

To create this, I just inserted an "image carousel" with the different poster files next to the embedded google form. The idea is that the graphs should always be visible on the same screen as the question and students should be able to find a graph that fits just by paging through the different options.

Once students submit all of their correct answers, they will be taken to a confirmation screen that states "​Congratulations! You found a matching graph for each of the motion descriptions. Take a screenshot of this confirmation screen for proof :)". With this, you just send students directly to this Google site and have them send you the confirmation rather than recreating it on your own.

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Solutions

As mentioned earlier, one of the cool things afforded by this format is that questions can have more than one possible answer. Below is the list of questions and the accepted answers.

• Find a velocity graph that is slowing down the entire time
  
  • Carver | Tyson
• Find a displacement graph that is slowing down the entire time
  
  • Newton | Curie
• Find a velocity graph that changes direction
  
  • Doudna | Kaku
• Find a displacement graph that changes direction
  
  • Hawking | Bohr
• Find a velocity graph that is moving in the negative direction and speeding up the entire time
  
  • Johnson
• Find a displacement graph that is moving in the negative direction and speeding up the entire time
  
  • Darwin
• Find a velocity graph that is moving at a constant negative velocity
  
  • Meitner
• Find a displacement graph that is moving at a constant negative velocity
  
  • Franklin
• Find a velocity graph that is moving in the positive direction the entire time
  
  • Goodall | Carver | Cannon
• Find a displacement graph that is moving in the positive direction the entire time
  
  • Einstein | Curie | Tesla
• Find a velocity graph that could represent the motion of a baseball being thrown straight up in the air and falling back down (assume that UP is considered to be the positive direction)
  
  • Kaku
• Find a displacement graph that could represent the motion of a baseball being thrown straight up in the air and falling back down (assume that UP is considered to be the positive direction)
  
  • ​Bohr

CLICK HERE for a Google Drive folder with images for the individual graphs

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More Motion Graph Activities

​Graphing Motion Walk Around
20 graphing questions to check understanding of finding displacement, velocity, and acceleration from motion graphs. All posters correspond to a google form with data validation to check answers in real time

 Motion Graph Matchmakers
Students find a classmate with a motion graph that describes the same scenario as their own 

Motion Graph Practice
Worksheet packet for drawing displacement and velocity graphs as well as determining acceleration and displacement from a velocity graph

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More Google Form Walk Arounds

This strategy of using data validation for instantaneous formative feedback is one of may favorites. Check out this page for a collection of Google Form Walk Arounds about many different topics.