Now that I've started teaching Physics, I can have students perform experiments that translate very literally to the content material. I recently taught them how to calculate the velocity of an object. There was a time when I didn't have a very good lesson for calculating speed because my classroom didn't have a lot of space for them to run around and I usually can't take them outside in the middle of winter.
So, I taped off parts of the room and had them walk between the tape lines. They measure the distance and time; then calculate velocity. Here's the catch...they must perform silly walks from the Monty Python sketch.
Then I film it at 300 fps and put together a wonderful compilation. They usually have an absolute blast doing this activity and they get a lot of good practice calculating velocity.
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