1-D Kinematics Workbook | Physics Workbook for One Dimensional Motion

This 1-Dimensional Kinematics Workbook is going to save you and your students so much time in your Physics or Physical Science classes! This EDITABLE, 64-page workbook covers motion in one dimension. Students will learn about scalars and vectors; distance, position and displacement; speed and velocity; acceleration; position-time graphs for objects with constant velocity and for accelerating objects; velocity-time graphs; creating position-time graphs from velocity-time graphs; deriving and using the 5 equations of kinematics; acceleration near Earth’s surface; and, solving multi-step acceleration problems. This workbook has been beautifully formatted in Microsoft Word, with all clear, crisp graphs made custom in Adobe Illustrator. Full solutions are included.

This workbook now has an accompanying EDITABLE PowerPoint presentation! Check out the video preview above to see the PowerPoint presentation.

There is a 279-slide presentation that covers all lessons for the entire workbook (homework slides not included in slides, but full homework solutions are included in the PDF). The full presentation has also been divided by lesson into 13 shorter PowerPoint files that are quicker to load and easier to share with students during distance learning.

The presentations come in 3 formats:

• editable PowerPoint
• PDF
• "flattened" PowerPoint which can be uploaded to Google Slides with no change in formatting (OneDrive link included since these are large files)

This resource is part of my Growing Physics Bundle. If you like this style of organized note-taking I have other workbooks for Physics units:

1-Dimensional Kinematics workbook

2-Dimensional Kinematics workbook

Forces & Newton's Laws workbook

Energy workbook

Circular Motion workbook

Gravitational Fields workbook

Momentum & Collisions workbook

Waves & Sound workbook

Optics workbook

Static Electricity workbook

Current Electricity workbook

Electric Fields workbook

Nuclear Energy Unit

Read the topics carefully to see if this workbook is right for you. The PREVIEW shows the watermarked solutions so you can examine if this workbook is right for you.

Students will learn about:

• Scalars and Vectors (no drawing vectors in the 1-D workbook – that is in the 2-D Kinematics Workbook).

• Distance, Position and Displacement, solving related problems

• Speed and Velocity, solving related problems

• Acceleration, solving simple problems (more difficult problems come later)

• Position-time graphs. The first lesson involves constant velocity, the second lesson involves acceleration. Students will be able to read the graph to find position, calculate the slope to determine the velocity (includes tangent lines for curves), compare graphs, describe motion given a graph.

• Velocity-time graphs. Students will be able to read the graph to find velocity, calculate the slope to determine acceleration, calculate the area between the graph and the time-axis to determine the position after different amounts of time, and use all of this information to produce a corresponding position-time graph.

• Compare and connect the shapes of position-time graphs and velocity-time graphs.

• Deriving the 5 Equations of Kinematics.

• Choose and use the 5 Equations of Kinematics to solve constant acceleration problems.

• Acceleration near Earth’s surface. Students learn when to use g = 9.8 m/s^2 as the value for acceleration near the surface of Earth and solve related problems.

• Solving multi-step acceleration problems. Students are guided through 3 types of multi-step problems, given tips for solving, and solve 3 practice problems.

The 1-Dimensional Kinematics Workbook also includes:

• a title page

• an equation page

• a vocabulary page for students to update with key terms throughout the unit

• a preconception page, that asks probing questions at the beginning of the unit and it revisited at the end of the unit.

The zipped folder includes:

• The 64-page 1-Dimensional Kinematics workbook in PDF format and editable Microsoft Word format.

• Complete, handwritten solutions as a PDF file.

• 279 slides of lessons, that correspond to the lesson notes and the worked examples in the lessons. The homework problems are not included in the PowerPoint presentations, but their full solutions are included in the solutions PDF file.

• NEW BONUS: 20 Bell Ringers + Answer Keys in multiple formats

This workbook is appropriate for Honors Physics, AP Physics 1, SPH3U, SPH4U, and similar courses.

Can I share this online with my students for distance learning?

Yes, my materials can be posted to your password-protected classroom management system (e.g. Google Classroom) provided only students can access the files. My resources cannot be posted to publicly accessible websites or shared with teachers other than the purchaser.

How I use the workbooks

I have been using these workbooks with my Physics students for years with great success. Students might be a little intimidated by the thickness of the workbooks at first, but they are VERY grateful when they see that these are mostly fill-in-the-blanks style with room for practice questions. I print them all out at the beginning of the unit and work through them day-by-day on the document camera. I try to get through one lesson per day. However, there are some longer lessons (like position-time graphs) that are better split in two or three. I don’t like to instruct all class: I like to take up choice homework questions, infuse experiments into the day, have students work together and review previous concepts. I don’t mark the workbooks, but I do check them for completion. I assign homework from the workbook (which is usually done in class) and some additional homework problems from the textbook.

Let me address some of your questions…

Am I going to be photocopying every day?

Nope! I print off the ENTIRE workbook and give it to the students at the beginning of the unit. You can choose to bind it, staple it, or just hole-punch it for the students’ binders. I find most students like to keep the pages together. Grab a coffee, put your feet up and enjoy the sweet whirl of the photocopier.

Do you hate trees?

I feel very strongly that Physics calculations cannot and should not be done on the computer. By having the workbook printed you are saving your students lots of time and frustration trying to format equations on the computer. When one of your students solves the problem to sustainable energy via nuclear fusion we’ll both agree that this was worth the paper.

You use v1 – I call it vi! What am I to do?

This workbook is editable in Microsoft Word. Yup. That’s how much I love you! If you or your textbook use a different notation, just edit it using the equation editor (and there are not too many places you’d have to do that). The only things that are not editable are the graphs and images.

What about our textbooks?

I still use my textbooks for practice problems. Though there are plenty of practice problems in here, you may want to cycle some textbook problems in too. I like to print off one page at the beginning of the unit that has all the homework problems listed by section. By front-loading all the printing and choosing of the homework problems I save a lot of time throughout the unit.

I don’t teach everything that’s included (or I teach it in a different order), so…?

No problem – either delete those pages from the editable file or select only the pages you want while printing. No topics start mid-way through a page so it’s easy to remove something depending on the level of your students. If you teach it in a different order it’s a quick fix on the Print screen. Just type the page numbers in the order you want them, e.g. 1-42, 45, 46, 43, 44, 47-64

I need more Physics resources!

You should check out my Growing Physics Bundle. It’s my priority this year to add to this bundle, and it’s cost increases with each new resource I upload.

Are there labs in here?

No. No labs are included - consider these your students’ notes for the unit. I plan on adding more labs to the Growing Physics Bundle, but most of the labs we do are inquiry-based so there isn’t much need for handouts. My Scientific Method: A Scientific Inquiry Unit would be helpful in this scenario.

I’m a new Physics teacher, will this help me?

Absolutely, yes! I wish I had this when I started teaching Physics over a decade ago ago! This will save you a ton of time that you can use to grade tests, set-up labs and just keep your head above water.

If you have any additional questions, feel free to Ask a Question here on TpT, or email me: mrs.brosseau@gmail.com