November 4, 2019
The Virginia Association of Science Teachers (VAST) and the Virginia Department of Education will host the 2019 VAST Professional Development Institute (PDI), "STEM Starts with Science," to be held November 14-16, 2019, at Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center, Roanoke, Virginia. Erik Benton and Knans Griffing will engage participants in the Smithsonian’s new module “How Does Motion Energy Change in a Collision?”. Using Bumper Cars participants will experience scientific phenomenon firsthand. They will then plan & carry out an investigation using a fair test, represent data on distance moved of a stationary object to identify and effect relationships, construct an explanation that faster objects have more motion energy, and determine whether the texture of a surface affects the motion of a sliding object.
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