Science Methods II - Week 1
Big Question: In Lab this week, we tackled the question of, “How can we support play that is exciting but not dangerous?” We worked together in groups to brainstorm how we can use playground equipment to safely teach about our physics topic of Motion . We discussed using swings, slides, races, and surfaces and read our examples aloud. We then moved onto the question of “How can we ensure that a race is exciting?”. We discussed taking racers competing differently, and creating variables to ensure the race was exciting every time. We worked in our groups and individually came up with our races. Our race involved one person walking normally, and one person walking with their eyes closed. We created a race distance of five meters, and timed the pace of the walker to establish a benchmark. Using our benchmark, we had the person with their eyes closed start exactly one second before the person with their eyes opened. We then ran the race with these variables, and the person with thei...