Activity # 1 Supplement

Key Questions

1. How do we describe/measure how fast a car is moving?

2. What else moves around us? In what way?
3. What does it mean when we say a car is moving at 35 km/hr?
4. What does it mean to “go over the speed limit”?
5. How do we know if something is moving slow, medium, or fast?
We can measure speed, and we are going to use our own bodies to do the following
activity!

Equipment Required

1. School yard or gym

2. Pylons
3. Students
4. Stop watches
5. Graph paper and pencils.

What to do
Premeasure a fixed distance (30 m) using the pylons to indicate the beginning and end of the
distance.
Have students work in groups of 4. (Create as many tracks as necessary.)
1-student has stopwatch
1-student records info (time taken to walk, jog, run distance)
1-student says go
1-student walks jogs or runs

Explain to student that they will be measuring the time it takes them to walk, jog and run a set
distance. These times are to be recorded on the graph paper provided with each student's name.

After all the students have had a chance to walk, jog and run, return to class to discuss implications
of varying speeds (measurements and what they mean).