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AS 9702 · 2.1 · Kinematics · Lesson bundle

Displacement, velocity and acceleration

The first lesson of kinematics, made lesson-ready: separate distance from displacement and speed from velocity, define acceleration, and read a motion graph by gradient, area and tangent. Plan, worksheet with answers, slides, and a Corners activity with a full facilitation guide, built around the two motion graphs and the site simulation Graphs of Motion.

Syllabus
9702, 2.1
Level
AS
Duration
60 minutes
Activity
Corners
Core visual
The two motion graphs
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Lesson plan

The 60-minute plan, with distance versus displacement, reading both motion graphs, two worked examples, examiner traps and differentiation.

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Worksheet and answers

Original AS questions across recall, calculations, motion graphs, tangents and reasoning, with a full worked answer key.

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Slides

Your actual slides, presented right in the browser, with the live simulation linked beneath; the download is fully editable.

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21st century skills activity

Corners on seven motion-graph rounds, with the four corner labels, the PIES rationale, a facilitation guide and a full teacher answer key, so it runs faithfully.

The matching topic page and simulation

Send learners to the lesson online

This bundle pairs with the student topic page Linear motion and graphs, which carries the interactive explanation, and with the site simulation Graphs of Motion, which links a motion to its displacement-time and velocity-time graphs in real time.

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How it is built

Name the axes first

The lesson holds one rule firm: a graph means nothing until the axes are named. The same straight line is constant velocity on a displacement-time graph but speeding up on a velocity-time graph, and that single trap accounts for most lost marks in this topic.

Corners makes every learner commit with their feet and then defend the choice, so the misconceptions surface and get argued out in the open. The activity ships with the corner labels, seven rounds and a full teacher answer key, so it can be run faithfully.

Original work by the TheLucidSTEM team. Questions are written in the style of the papers; no past paper question is reproduced. Supplied in editable formats so you can adapt them freely.
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