Science Methods 2 Blog Post 1

 The big lab question that we addressed this week was: "How can you ensure that a race is exciting?" 

In order to answer this question we have to perform some investigations of our own. My table group and I were tossing around ideas about possibly using a chair or scooters to race, but with the help of Mr. Nordine, we realized the approach was much simpler. Speed, distance, and time work together to create a race fair and fun for students who run at different speeds. Speed= distance/time meaning dividing the distance being running by the time it takes each student to run allows us as teachers to create fair and fun races. This was further confirmed in the lecture by talking about the SEPs, DCIs, and CCCs of the lab SEP: making observations about motion will lead to DCI: motion being described, measured, and predicted, through CCC: which predicts patterns to the future location. Through the textbook reading, I learned about the three key concepts that are vital to understanding motion in itself position, distance, and direction. I found this to be very helpful because it was almost a step-by-step of how to properly understand motion and what roles are required in order to truly understand motion. The question I have is what activities can I do in my future classroom to introduce this topic of motion that is fun and exciting for my future students?