Average Speed, Distance, and Time Calculation Practice Scavenger Hunt Activity

Are you looking for a fun and engaging activity that allows your students to improve their skills and understanding of calculating average speed, distance, and time? This printable and digital scavenger hunt with two different versions is a student-led, low- to no-prep task that helps your students review how to manipulate the speed formula using examples with realistic values.

Prior knowledge/skills required:

• how to manipulate the speed equation to find average speed, distance, and time
• convert units, e.g. from km/h to m/s (Version 2 only)
• division of decimal values

This activity comes in two versions that use different questions. All questions can be viewed in the pdf preview provided in this listing (page 5).

• Version 1 contains problems that require students to manipulate the speed formula in order to calculate average speed, distance, or time. No unit conversions required

• Version 2 contains problems that require students to manipulate the speed formula as in Version 1. They are also required to convert into the correct form of units - values might be given in meters and minutes but they are asked to calculate the average speed in km/h.

✨What’s Included✨

• two different versions with 12 printable scavenger hunt station cards, each in 3 color options (color, B&W, low-ink)
• Access file for the two digital versions of scavenger hunt (for Google Forms™)
• Printable and digital recording sheets to help your students keep track
• Answer Key

Printable Version

Simply print the station cards and distribute them around the room. To prevent students from following others around the loop, I usually print 4 to 5 sets on different colored paper and have smaller groups of students follow a ‘color loop’, e.g. the green or blue station cards.

The cards are designed so that students can begin at any of the station. They answer the question on their card, then look around until they spot the answer on the top bar of one of the remaining cards. This will become their next question card. Once they have answered all twelve questions correctly, they will find themselves back at their first station.

Google Forms™ version

Once you copied the Google Form™, you can it assign via the usual platforms (e.g. Google Classroom) to your students. They will be prompted to find the answer to the question on station card A, then select the answer card showing the correct answer and click ‘next’ at the bottom of the form. This will take them to their next station card. They will need to keep track of the order of station cards as they will need to enter this sequence to complete the task.

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How to use this resource:

⭐ Assessment of prior learning

⭐ Early finishers

⭐ Science Centers

⭐ Formative assessment of (newly learned) information

⭐ Homework

⭐ Mid- or end-of-unit review / Test Prep