Day 1: Buggy Lab

After the bare minimum of formalities (fees, fire exits, safety form), we started the buggy lab. We made the claim that "the buggy travels at a constant speed." We then went into lab to collect evidence.  After whiteboarding our first attempt of displaying our evidence, we came up with a class consensus of what makes good whiteboard evidence. Here's the best second draft of their evidence. (We'll be working on the equation more tomorrow.):
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cool. hope you keep it up through the year.
Great looking data. Do you play with the cars in the toy aisle to make sure the cars don't accelerate?
I went to a Modeling Instruction workshop, and they just gave me the cars. Somebody else did the research for me. You can get these cars from Arbor Scientific; they're called Constant Velocity Cars.