This benchmark lab is intended for you to explore the reaction time it takes to grasp a meter stick being dropped between fingers. In one trial of 10 drops you will create the control data. In the control data you and your partner will not have any distractions or enhancements while dropping or catching the meter stick. This is your control data, the data you will compare to your experimental results.
When gathering the experimental data you will be changing something in the drop. The change may be something to increase or decrease response time, BUT you must have something in your hypothesis that gives you an educated guess or insight into why the change will affect the response time.
Files of the lab write up template, the directions and some other help are provided.
NOTE: This is the first time I'm using SOPHIA. Let me know what you think. ALSO, don't be afraid to use Edmodo to bounce ideas off each other and to share your insights.
Some additional directions.
Source: me
Directions for the meter stick response times as shown in class.
This is an example only. Check your Google Doc for a share file. Make a copy of it to edit, write and insert graphs.
What kind of outside influences do you use when you perform this lab? It looks like a great lab.
"This looks like a great lab but it could use more details about what kind of "outside influences" or distractions could be used to perform the lab. This lab helps to illustrate controlled, independent, and dependent variables."
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