We have been studying force and motion in science, and learning new vocabulary words like friction, inertia, and velocity. The students have a "Science Dictionary" that we add to each time we have new vocabulary. So as you read the following answers to a recent science quiz, keep in mind that yes, this was taught, and yes, these are terms we have been using in class regularly.
The question that stumped so many students was:
What would one need to know in order to find a car's velocity? (speed and direction)
And here are some answers that literally had me laughing so hard I was crying:
- a gun that police use to give tickets out when you are speeding
- you would need to take the car out for a test drive
- an odometer
- to know how to take a car apart and put it back together again
Then there was a motorboat question, in which a motorboat has stopped and is decelerating slowly. When asked why this happened, a couple of answers were particluarly creative:
- the boat had to overcome it's interia.
- the boat ran out of engine.
Needless to say, I re-taught the terminology.
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