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Plainview Students Scientifically Pick up the Pace
Plainview Students Scientifically Pick up the Pace
Students
Participate in a Lab to Calculate Speed
Plainview-Old Bethpage Central School District’s H. B. Mattlin Middle School recently organized an opportunity for students in science and math classes to see physics in action by participating in a special lab workshop that measured speed and pace.
Students tested how long it took them to walk, hop and run backwards for six to 12 meters. They then applied the formula for velocity, which they learned in their classes—speed equals distance divided by time—to draw conclusions regarding pace in meters per second when walking longer distances. The lesson aligned with the students’ science and math curriculums, spanning different disciplines and working with proportions.
Students at H. B.
Mattlin Middle School in the Plainview-Old Bethpage Middle School recently
participated in a lab workshop to measure speed and pace. Students measured how
long it took them to walk, hop and walk backwards for six to 12 meters and
applied mathematical formulas to conclude their speed and pace for longer
distances.
Students at H. B. Mattlin Middle School in the Plainview-Old Bethpage Middle
School recently participated in a lab workshop to measure pace using the
formula for velocity they learned in their math and science classes.
A student at H.B. Mattlin
Middle School in the Plainview-Old Bethpage Middle School walks forward as her
partner measures the time it takes for her to do so during a science lab to
measure speed and pace. The lesson aligned with the students’ science and math
curriculums, spanning different disciplines and working with proportions.