P4-7 got their sprinting shoes on this morning to work with time duration and technology.
We first estimated then measured the distance of our football pitch with a trundle wheel. It had a length of 30 metres.
Next, using a digital stopwatch, each pupil sprinted a double run of 60 metres whilst another took a turn at timing them.
We then used software to plot and display our data graphically. We discussed which type of graph would be most suitable. The class agreed that a bar would be the best to show each individual time.
The children then selected to use either Microsoft Excel or 2SimpleGraph to enter their data. We remembered to give our graphs a title and label each axis.
We then interpreted our results. Using our HOTS analysing skills to consider whether our results supported the questions that:
- The oldest/youngest runner was the fastest/slowest
- The tallest/smallest runner was the fastest/slowest
Our results did not support these statements, demonstrating that we are all unique.
As an extra challenge we calculated the speed of each runner using the D=S x T formula transposed to S = Distance/Time
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