Walking Dead Lab

WHAT IS SCIENCE : This past times calendar week nosotros started our unit of measurement on forcefulness in addition to motion.  One of the showtime introductory labs nosotros did was a walking lab in addition to to remain amongst the subject of Halloween in addition to all things creepy, I decided to telephone outcry upwards it the Walking Dead Lab.  I am actually NOT into the latest Zombie craze at all, but I idea it would live fun for the kids.

The kids had a blast.  I took them exterior on the cool, autumn Halloween Day (and many of them were already inward costume because nosotros were having a schoolhouse spirit 24-hour interval in addition to a pep rally after inward the afternoon), hence the mood was set.

In this lab, they were given dissimilar walking tasks, collected information on fourth dimension in addition to distance, in addition to then nosotros went dorsum to the classroom to graph the data.  It was a 1 1/2 24-hour interval process, but totally worth it.  The students were able to encounter how their classmates motions were represented graphically.  I actually experience similar my students convey a improve grasp on the concepts of speed, velocity in addition to acceleration forthwith to a greater extent than than always before.  They knew what a lead business on a distance vs. fourth dimension graph meant because they had merely participated inward /performed it.  They saw what acceleration looked similar on a graph equally the business began taking shape equally they plotted the information points.  What a powerful activity!

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