Lesson Plan: Distance and Displacement Physics • First Year of Secondary School

This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to define distance as the length of a path between two positions and define displacement as the straight line distance between two positions.

Objectives

Students will be able to

recognize that distance is not directional,
recognize that distance can only be positive valued,
recognize that displacement has a specific direction,
recognize that displacement can be positive or negative valued,
recognize that the magnitude of the displacement of a point from another is the straight-line distance between the points.