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⚠️ This material is an adapted Physics activity designed to teach Momentum, also known as Linear Momentum, in a visual, progressive, and accessible way.
Visual summary + 5 adapted questions + complete answer key, distributed across 3 activity pages.
The activity follows a progression that begins by identifying the two quantities that determine momentum, moves on to understanding that an object at rest has zero momentum, introduces a model calculation, and finishes by separately analyzing the influence of mass and velocity.
The material is especially suitable for high school and, depending on the student's curriculum adaptation needs, may also be used in middle school.
It may especially support students with mild to moderate Intellectual Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and ADHD, as well as students who experience difficulties with Mathematics applied to Physics. The material prioritizes comparisons, marking answers, completing sentences with a word bank, and supported calculations, reducing the need for lengthy written responses.
It can also support Physics teachers, general education teachers, support professionals, and Specialized Educational Assistance (AEE) teachers.
PDF recommended for color printing, containing:
🔹 illustrated visual summary;
🔹 5 adapted questions;
🔹 3 activity pages;
🔹 word bank;
🔹 identification of an object at rest;
🔹 solved model calculation;
🔹 calculation with multiple-choice answers;
🔹 comparison involving mass and velocity;
🔹 large, contextualized images;
🔹 material presented in UPPERCASE TEXT;
🔹 BNCC-related skills;
🔹 complete visual answer key.
⏱️ By purchasing this material, you save approximately 3 hours and 47 minutes of preparation time, receiving an activity that is already adapted, illustrated, designed, and includes a visual summary, guided calculation, and answer key.
The activity presents Momentum as a physical quantity that depends on an object's mass and velocity. It also introduces the term linear momentum, its representation by the letter p, and the units kg·m/s and N·s.
The visual summary also presents two fundamental relationships: the greater the mass or velocity, the greater the momentum can be; and momentum has a direction and sense of motion, following the object's velocity.
The first page presents a visual summary featuring a car, ball, and truck in motion, connecting the images to the expression p = m·v. Below this, students identify the meaning of each physical quantity and its corresponding unit.
In the first question, students receive a word bank containing MASS – TIME – VELOCITY – HEIGHT and identify the two quantities on which momentum depends. This allows them to begin by understanding the conceptual relationship before performing calculations.
In the second question, a car, ball, box, and bicycle are shown, each with its velocity. Students identify which object has zero momentum. The box has v = 0 m/s, allowing students to visually connect being at rest with zero momentum.
The third question introduces calculations with support. First, the material presents a 1 kg ball moving at 5 m/s, showing the calculation that results in 5 kg·m/s. It then keeps the velocity at 5 m/s while changing the mass to 2 kg, allowing students to determine the new momentum using the previous example as a model.
In the fourth question, a 1,000 kg car and a 5,000 kg truck are moving at the same velocity. Students identify which one has greater momentum and then select which quantity explains the difference. This strategy keeps velocity constant to specifically highlight the effect of mass.
Finally, the fifth question keeps the mass of the same car constant while increasing its velocity from 10 m/s to 20 m/s. Students identify what happens to its momentum, allowing them to separately observe the effect of increasing velocity.
✅ Develops the concept of Momentum from visual understanding to mathematical calculation.
✅ Uses concrete situations involving a car, ball, box, bicycle, and truck.
✅ Alternates between word banks, identification activities, supported calculations, and comparisons.
✅ Keeps one quantity constant while changing the other, making it easier to understand the individual effects of mass and velocity.
✅ Provides a solved example before students complete their own calculation, offering mathematical support.
✅ Available in UPPERCASE TEXT, with large images, BNCC-related skills, and a complete visual answer key.
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