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IGCSE 0625 · 1.2 · Core · Lesson bundle

Distance-time graphs: the shape of a journey

The second lesson of motion, made lesson-ready: read and sketch distance-time graphs, where a gradient is the speed and a horizontal line is stationary. Plan, worksheet with answers, slides, and a Think-Pair-Share activity with a full facilitation guide, built around the site simulation The Round Trip Trap.

Syllabus
0625, 1.2
Level
Core
Duration
45 minutes
Activity
Think-Pair-Share
Core visual
The twin-graph poster
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Every part, two ways

Each part of the bundle opens right here on the site, projectable in any browser, and downloads as an editable file, never a locked PDF. Adapt them to your set, your timing and your school's calendar.

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Lesson plan

The 45-minute plan, with the graph reading, the simulation hook, examiner traps and a timing and contingency note.

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Worksheet and answers

Six original questions with a full worked answer key and marking notes.

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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

The journeys-to-graphs matching task run as Think-Pair-Share, with answers and a full facilitation guide so the structure runs faithfully.

The matching topic page and simulation

Send learners to the lesson online

This bundle pairs with the student topic page Motion graphs, and the hook runs on the site simulation The Round Trip Trap: the distance climbs out and keeps climbing back, which is exactly what a distance-time graph shows.

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How it is built

Read the shape, then justify it

The simulation turns a journey into a rising distance, then the lesson reads that as a graph: a straight slope is constant speed, a horizontal line is stationary, and the gradient is the speed. The twin-graph poster is introduced from its distance-time side.

Think-Pair-Share then has learners match journeys to graphs, commit alone, justify in pairs, and explain on a random call, and because the activity ships with a full facilitation guide it can be run faithfully by any teacher. The traps it pre-empts are the classic ones: reading a horizontal line as constant speed, and confusing the two graph types.

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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