Objective: To trace the path travelled by the ant from its starting point to the end point. Materials: live ant, bond paper, pentel pen Procedure: Mark the starting point on one side of the bond paper. Each group must use a live ant to travel across a bond paper. Once the ant started travelling, one member must use a pentel pen to mark the path travelled by the ant across the paper. Other members must make sure that the ant travels across the bond paper. After finishing the activity, the group must identify the shortest path the ant may travel from its starting point towards its end point.
1. How would you describe your ant’s travel? Student’s responses may vary. 2. Is there another path that the ant may travel to easily reach its destination? 3. Generally, how would you describe an object’s motion?
Objectives: Define the term motion, distance, displacement, speed, velocity, and acceleration. Identify the reference point;
ACTIVITY 1: DESCRIBING THROUGH VISUALS Objective: In this activity, you should be able to describe the position of the object using diagrams. Materials: Diagram, Laptop and Projector
Procedure: Examine the diagram in Figure 1. The positions of the objects are described in the diagram by their coordinates along the number line. Answer the given guide questions. You may present your output.
Guide questions: What is the position of the dog? What is the position of the tree? What is the position of the dog with respect to the house? What is the position of the tree with respect to the dog? How would you describe the position of the dog with respect to the house and with respect to the tree?
What are the different ways of describing an object’s motion? How would you describe an object’s distance? How would you describe an object’s displacement? Give examples of distances?
Give examples of displacements? How would you differentiate distance from displacement? Can distance be equal to displacement? Yes or No, why?
1. Answer the following questions in a ½ sheet of pad paper. 2. Your mother walks 4 meters East, 2 meters South, 4 meters West, and finally 2 meters North around her flower garden beside your house. Describe her total distance travelled? Describe her displacement from her starting point to her destination.
Answer the following questions based on the picture: What is the total distance travelled by the boy from point A to C? What is his displacement? Which path should he take from point A to C? Why?
HOMEWORK/ASSIGNMENT Let the students define distance and displacement based on their understanding or previous information.