| $ Store Activity
Name: |
Frisbee Accuracy
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| Concepts / Skills
addressed: |
measurement, graphing, averages
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| Approximate Grade
Range: |
6th - 9th ?
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| Materials: |
frisbee, a target ring (outlined
with dollar store rope?), tape measure
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| The General Idea:
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Make a ring on the ground
(outlined with dollar store rope?) and stand some distance from the
target. Try to throw the frisbee into the target. It helps
to have a partner throwing the frisbees back. Let students devise
a defensible scheme for quantifying the accuracy of the thrower (e.g.,
Throw it ten times. Seven successes out of ten attempts means a
70% accuracy rate.) Find out how accurate you are at this
distance. Change the distance. Get more data. Repeat
as necessary until you think you understand how your accuracy changes
with distance. Is this a linear relationship? |
Extensions:
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Are some people more accurate
than others? Are girls more accurate than boys? can you get
other classes with younger or older participants involved? How
does the average accuracy at a specific distance change with the age of
the thrower?
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| Links: |
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Author:
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Mark Roddy
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