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A Student Investigation |
Today you are going to investigate how fast people move in different situations. You should pick 5 modes of foot travel (like walking , skipping, jumping, running, etc) and design an experiment for each to figure out how fast someone goes. For example, you might want to find out how fast a student walks down the hall, how fast someone can run all the way around the school, or how fast someone can crawl out of the room in the event of a fire in the building.
Each situation will have two things in common: 1) each must have a distance of some form, and 2) each must have a time measured for traveling that distance. Once these pieces of information are gathered, then you can use the formula v=d/t (Velocity=Distance/Time) to calculate the speed in each case.
Bar graphs of each situation can then be produced, and you can compare your results to the results of other groups. Your teacher will help you decide how your group will record and share information, using a spreadsheet to write down the data.