1st Station Materials // Rulers and Stopwatches
Step in the What is this step? Your writing
Scientific
Method
Question This is when you ask your
own question that you have How does each student affect the time taken to run the
come up with based on the distance of all the rulers lined up?
materials you've been given.
Research This is when you find any
information you need to find 660 CM in total distance.
before doing the
experiment.
Hypothesize This is when you guess the
answer to your question. Courtney will win because she is the fastest runner.
Experiment This is when you write the 1. Lay out the rulers perfectly along the floor, and add
steps of your experiment. masking tape to secure onto the ground.
Remember, your whole 2. Each person will run the length of the rulers and
experiment is a plan to try back, and they must step on the starting line to
and answer your question. finish
3. Somebody times when they run and notes it down
after.
Taney 3.12, 3.38, 3.21: average 3.24
Courtney 2.63, 2.97, 2.81: average 2.80
Alison 3.06, 3.03, 3.28: average 3.12
Lokus 3.43, 3.09, 3.19: average 3.24
Mavis 2.96, 2.78, 2.72: average 2.82
Analyze This is when you write a data
table, convert it to a graph,
and then understand what
the data is saying.
The data table says that Taney and Lokus tied, and that
Courtney ran the fastest, and Mavis was the second.
Share This is when you use the
graph to answer whether Our hypothesis was correct, and Courtney did win.
your hypothesis was correct Courtney won because she is the fastest runner amongst
or not. You also explain why us, and she did win 100m running 2 years ago. Taney and
everything happened. Lokus had a tied average, probably because they ran at
around the same speed. Alison was around the middle, not
the fastest and not the slowest. I was the second fastest
because I’m also a fast runner, but not as fast as Courtney is.
