SCIENCE – GRADE 7 Self-Instructional Packets (SIPacks)

THIRD QUARTER - WEEK 1

I. OBJECTIVES
A. Content Standard: 
The learners demonstrate understanding of motion in one dimension
B. Performance Standard:
The learners should be able to conduct a forum on mitigation and disaster risk
reduction
C. Learning Competency:
The learners should be able to describe the motion of an object in terms of
distance or displacement, speed or velocity, and acceleration;

Specific Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, the learners should be able to:
1. describe in words the position of an object within a given various situation..
2. calculate and differentiate distance from displacement.
3. make a roadmap that shows how you get to school from your house
4. describe the motion of an object in terms of distance or displacement, speed
or
velocity, and acceleration
5. differentiate scalar quantity from a vector quantity.
6. apply the concepts distance, displacement, speed, velocity and acceleration to
daily living
 
II. CONTENT: LESSON 1: DESCRIBING MOTION USING DISTANCE, DISPLACEMENT,
SPEED, VELOCITY, AND ACCELERATION

III. LEARNING RESOURCES

A. References
1. Teacher’s Guide pages: 119 - 123
2. Learner’s Material pages: 166- 186
3. Textbook pages:
B. Other Learning Resources: https://bit.ly/33CFVqc, https://bit.ly/3iMuFOH,
https://bit.ly/3cdUPaq, https://bit.ly/2FPxQ9I

IV. PROCEDURE
(ELICIT)
A. Reviewing previous lesson or presenting the new lesson
ACTIVITY 1: PICTURE ANALYSIS

I. Objective:
1. Describe and explain an object in motion.

II. Procedure:
1. Analyze the picture and answer the questions.
1. Which among the pictures represents an object in motion? Why?

A B

2. Which one is moving faster? Why?

A B

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(ENGAGE)
B. Establishing the purpose for the lesson

ACTIVITY 2: WHERE IT IS?

I. Objective:
After performing the activity, you should be able to:
1. describe in words the position of an object within the given situation

II. Procedure:
1. Observe and analyze the pictures below then answer the guide questions.

Q1. When can you say an object is in motion?

Q2. How do we describe the motion of an object?

You can describe the motion of an object by its position, speed, direction, and

acceleration. Describing exact position entails two
ideas: describing how far the object is from the point of
reference and describing its direction relative to that point
of reference.

A reference point is a
place or object used for comparison to determine if
something is in motion. An object is in motion if it
changes position relative to a reference point. You
assume that the reference point is stationary, or not
moving.

Q3. Is the ball moving? Why do you say so?

Q4. From the illustration above, what is the point of reference for the moving ball?

Q5. What is your point of reference that the ball really moves? How about for the car(illustration
1 and 2?

C. Presenting examples/instances of the new lesson

In science, motion is defined as the change in position for a particular time interval. You
can then start describing motion with the question, “How far did the object travel?”

There are actually two ways to answer this question.

1. Getting the total length of the path 2. By measuring the distance between the initial
travelled by the object. Using the figure position and final position of the object. Based
below for example, the dog travelled 10m again on the figure below, the dog has travelled
to the east, then 5m to the south, and 5 meters to the south.
another 10m to the west. So it has travelled
a total of 25 meters.

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This is represented by bold line.

This is being represented by broken lines

The first measurement gives the The second measurement gives its
DISTANCE travelled by the object DISPLACEMENT (represented by
(represented by broken lines) continuous line).
An arrow is being placed above the letter d
which mean that it is a vector quantity.
d= 10m East + 5m South + 10m West
= 25m
d = 5m S

Here are more illustrations showing the difference between distance travelled
(represented by broken lines) by an object and its displacement (represented by continuous
lines).

(EXPLORE)
D. Discussing new concepts and practicing new skills #1

ACTIVITY 3: MY HOME TO SCHOOL ROADMAP

I. Objectives:
When you finish this activity, you should be able to:
1. calculate and differentiate distance from displacement.
2. make a roadmap that shows how you get to school from your house
II. Materials:
pencil, ruler, bond paper, internet/google map or waze (if available) or guardian/parent
as human waze or google map

III. Procedure:
1. Devise a way to easily measure distance. Let your teacher check your non-standard
measurement for precision.

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2. Using your measuring device, gather the data that you will need for your roadmap.
Make sure that you take down notes of all names of the roads, landmarks, corners, posts, and
establishments you pass by. Record your data properly.
3. Using your gathered data, draw your house-school roadmap on a short bond paper.
Decide on the most convenient scale to use when you draw your roadmap. An example is
shown below.

4. Label your roadmap properly, including names of the roads, establishments, etc.
Specify also the length of road.
5. Finally, let your teacher check again your work.

Q1. What is the total length of your travel from your house to your school? (Show your
computation)

Q2. What is the total displacement of your travel? (Show your computation)

E. Discussing new concepts and practicing new skills #2

ACTIVITY 4: FUN WALK: A HOUSE TOUR

I. Objectives:
After performing this activity, you should be able to:
1. gather data to determine the distance and time travelled.
2. compute for the speed of the participants
3. compare the speed of each member of the family

II. Materials: meter stick, paper, pencil and calculator

II. Procedure:
1. Start by choosing a spacious place at home to walk straight.
2. You join the half of the family in walking while the other half will record, assist and
guide you during the activity. The more family members to join, the better.
3. You and half of family member who joins will walk while the other member of the
family will observe and record data.
4. Mark on the ground the starting line. All participants must start from the starting line at
the same time (if there is one or more member of the family joins the activity).
5. Upon receiving the go signal, participants must start to walk as fast as they could. The
other members should observe closely as the participants walk and determine who walks
fastest.
6. Repeat #4 but this time, collect data to support your conclusion. Write your data on
the table given below.
Name of member distance travelled in time travel speed = distance/time
meter (seconds) (m/s)

1.

2.

3.

Q1. What quantities did you measure for your data?

Q2. How did you combine these quantities to determine how fast each participant was
walking?
Q3. How did you use the result to determine who walked fastest?
Q4. At constant distance, how is speed related to the time of travel?
Q5. At constant time to travel, how is speed related to the distance travelled?

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Q6. Who was travelling faster than the other, a person who covered 10 meters in 5
seconds or the one who took 10 seconds to cover 20 meters?

(EXPLAIN)
F. Developing mastery
Let’s Study This!
Speed (s) is defined as distance travelled divided by the time of travel.
● The units of speed can be miles per hour (mi/h), kilometres per hour (km/h), or
meters per second (m/s).
Speed = d (distance travelled)
t (time travel)
Example:
1. If Pedro walks to his cousins' house with a distance of 20 meters in 10 second. What
is the speed of Pedro?

Given: Unknown: Formula: Solution: Answer:

d= 20 m speed speed= d speed= 20 m speed= 2 m
t= 10 s t 10s s

Speed and direction

In describing the motion of an object, we do not just describe how fast the object moves. We
also consider the direction to where it is going.
✔ Speed with direction is referred to as VELOCITY (v).
Velocity can also be calculated as the distance travelled per unit of time plus the direction of the
motion.

v (velocity) = d (distance travelled) with the direction

t (time travel)

From the above given example the speed of Pedro is 2 m/s and therefore we can state that
the velocity is 2 m/s going to Chucks' house.

We often hear the weather forecaster like Mang Tani to describe the motion or movement of
the typhoon by stating the velocity. During weather forecast they tell us the speed of the
typhoon and where it is heading. Example: The typhoon Sendang is
155 kilometers east northeast of Infanta Quezon, still moving west
northwest at 22km/h.

❖ There can be at many instances of speed, such as constant

speed, average speed, and instantaneous speed.
✔ A fixed distance movement per unit of time is
constant speed. At each interval of time, the same
amount of distance is covered. A suitable example of
constant speed might be an object moving in an orbit.
“Constant speed” means that over time the speed neither increases nor
decreases; it just remains consistent. if speed is constant, there is no
acceleration or velocity involved. Constant speed with a direction vector becomes
velocity. Velocity changes constantly as its direction changes constantly.
✔ If we divide the total distance travelled by the total time, we get the average
speed.
✔ Thus Average speed=total distance/total time
Average Speed = d (total distance travelled)
t (total time travel)
✔ The speed at a particular time is instantaneous speed.
Suppose your father is driving a car.
Are you familiar with the speedometer?
Speedometer is a device used to measure the instantaneous speed of a vehicle.
Speedometers are important to the drivers because they need to know how fast
they are going so they know if they are already driving beyond the speed limit or
not.
If you observe the readings of the speedometer, its speed constantly changes
because the speedometer gives the speed at a particular time. That reading is
the instantaneous speed at that very instance.

Any change in velocity is called ACCELERATION (a). Acceleration can be a decrease

in speed, increase in speed, or a change in direction

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There are two types of quantities. These are the scalar quantity and vector quantity.

Scalar Quantity Vectory Quantity

it is a quantity which has ONLY magnitude it is a quantity which has BOTH magnitude
(refers to distance or quantity) but NO and direction.
direction.

Example: speed 5m/s, distance 10m, time Example: displacement 5km North, velocity
30 sec, etc. 18m/s South and acceleration 9.8m/s2

The quantities are simply written as An arrow above represents a vector quantity
s - speed d - distance
s - seconds (time) m - length (length) d- displament v - velocity

ACTIVITY 5: Motion ITS-POSSIBLE

I. Objectives:
When you finish this activity, you should be able to:
1. describe the motion of an object in terms of distance or displacement, speed
or velocity, and acceleration
II. Procedure
1. Read the example on the first column, identify if the given example describes distance,
displacement, speed, velocity or acceleration and on the third column write whether it is a scalar
or a vector quantity.

Example distance/ displacement/ scalar /

vector
speed/ velocity / acceleration

1. Juan hike a curvy mountain, which measure

100 meters.

2. Jose uses a shortcut to climb a mountain

with a length of 300 meters.

3. Pedro experience a wind that passes him

with a strength of 150 km/h moving northwest

4. My cat runs a distance of 10 meters in just 5

seconds.

5. David's car is fast moving left side to right

side on a wide street and suddenly reduces its
speed when he is moving on a curve road.

Q1. What makes distance differ from displacement?

Q2. How can you tell if a statement is speed or velocity?
Q3. When can you say an object is accelerating or decelerating?

(ELABORATE)
G. Finding practical applications of concepts and skills in daily living

ACTIVITY 6: MOTION TOUR

I. Objective:
When you finish this activity, you should be able to:
1. apply the concepts distance, displacement, speed, velocity and acceleration to daily
living.

II. Procedure:

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1. If you are going to plan a trip after the pandemic with your family and spend your
holiday in Baguio city for 5 days/ Write your day to day plan on the table below. Refer to Baguio
Map for Tourist Spots.
Day Tourist spot Means of Transportation
(walking or riding a jeep or
car)

Note: Day 1 will be your departure here in Pampanga to your Hotel in Baguio and Day 5
is your departure to Baguio to your Home.

Q1. How will you plan your travel with 13 different tourist spots?
Q2. Why did you plan your travel in that way?
Q3. In what way your knowledge in distance, displacement, speed, velocity and acceleration
can be applied in this activity and your daily activity such as going to market, school and
church?

Baguio Map
Tourist Spots

H. Making generalizations and abstractions about the lesson

Motion is defined as the change in position over an interval of time. It is important to know the
point of reference (reference point) and direction in describing the position the position of
an object.
Distance Vs. Displacement

Distance is the total length/path covered by Displacement is the shortest length

an object between the object's point of origin and its
point of destination.

Distance does not always follow a straight Displacement always follows a straight
line. line.

✔ It measures the length of the path ✔ measures the length of the straight
travelled by the object. line that connects the object's point of

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origin and its point of destination.

✔ a scalar quantity ✔ a vector quantity

✔ represented by a broken line ✔ represented by continuous line

✔ Distance and displacement will be equal when the path travelled is a straight line.

✔ Displacement can be shorter than the distance but it cannot be greater than the
distance.
Distance

Displacement

Speed Vs. Velocity

Speed of an object is the the distance Velocity of an object is the distance

travelled per unit of time travelled per unit of time in a given
direction

✔ It cannot be zero ✔ It can be zero

✔ It is a scalar quantity ✔ It is vector quantity

Acceleration
Acceleration is the change in velocity (with direction) over a time interval. Acceleration may be
due the change in velocity (increasing speed or decreasing speed) or if there is no change in
speed but there's change in direction, acceleration is achieved.

Constant Speed means an object is moving at the same speed throughout. In actual scenario,
Earth revolves at a constant speed around the sun in a certain orbit same through with
satellites. Instantaneous speed is the speed at an instant such as the speed-reading on a
speedometer.

Remember objects does not always move at constant speed or velocity. Storms or hurricanes
do change their speeds, directions or both

(EVALUATE)
I. Evaluating learning
Multiple Choice: Directions: Choose the correct answer.
_____1. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the object moving with constant
speed?
A. The object is not accelerating
B. The speed of the object is equal to zero.
C. The distance travelled by the object increases uniformly
D. The speed of the object remains the same all throughout the travel

_____2. Which of the following is true about an object that travels to the left, then 2 meters up,
then another 5 meters to the right?

A. The displacement of the object is equal to 12 meters.

B. The total distance travelled by the object is equal to 12 meters.
C. The displacement of the object is equal to 12 meters down.
D. The total distance travelled by the object is equal to 12 meters down.

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_____3. When is an object considered to be in motion?

When its position changes with respect to a
point of reference.
When its distance changes with respect to a
point of reference.
A. I and II only C. II and III only
B. I and III only D. I, II, and III

_____4. Which of the following DOES NOT describes velocity?

A. a vector quantity
B. it cannot be zero
C. speed with direction
D. the distance covered per unit of time

_____5. In which situation or scenario below describes velocity?

A. ball rolling on a floor.
B. the wind moving 25 km/hr west
C. a jet plane with same speed and direction all through out
D. a car heading to the finish line changes its direction and speed in a curve.

(EXTEND)
J. Additional activities for application or remediation
I. Multiple Choice: Choose the correct answer.

Refer to the table below and answer the questions. Data were obtained from a 200-
meter dash competition.
Female Record Male Record
Athlete ed Athlete ed
Time Time
1 26.5 1 22.4
2 26.1 2 21.9
3 25.3 3 23.0
4 26.7 4 22.6

_____1. Which of the following statements is/are true?

I. The male athletes are faster than the female athletes.
II. Compared to the speed of the fastest male athlete, the average speed
of the fastest female athlete is slightly less.
A. I only C. Both I and II
B. II only D. Neither I nor II

_____2. How do you compute for the average speed of each athlete?
A. Divide 200 meters by twice the recorded time of travel.
B. Multiply 200 meters by the recorded time of travel.
C. Divide 200 meters by the recorded time of travel.
D. Divide the recorded time of travel by 200 meters.

II. Describe the following pictures in terms of each speed, velocity or acceleration
1. train 2. Satellite 3. ship

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