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The Nature of Science:
Science Experimentation
Amazing Feets
Our next new product, as some of you know, is supposed to be an athletic shoe that we will name “the Ground Gripper”. The only problem is that we haven’t yet figured out how to make this new shoe.
The Antigravity Machine
Ask students what they think an "antigravity machine" would do ("something that helps you work against gravity"). Tell them that you are going to show them an antigravity machine for the day’s activity.
Durability Testing
Come up with some standard tests and measurements that can be done with a piece of cloth to see how will it lasts under various kinds of wear and tear.
Engineering Task 1046-B
One idea for a space station is to connect two structures with a tube or cables, and set them revolving around each other, creating centripetal force in each to simulate gravity.
Memo to M.I.C.E. Concerning C.H.E.E.S.E.
We are considering using a new instrument for measuring the humidity in the air, but we need to determine if it is reliable. I would therefore like all of you to carry out this test, working in teams of two or three M.I.C.E. each.
Microgravity Exercise
Begin by making a hypothesis concerning how a person’s heart rate would change when they begin exercising, while they are exercising over a period of a few minutes, and when they stop exercising.
Proof of the Pudding
Could you guys come up with a way to really test whether or not our food tastes better to people?
Water Fences
Could you devise an experiment that measures the effect that wind has on evaporation? Ideally you would end up with a graph that shows how increased wind velocity leads to more water loss in a given period of time.
Wizards
We do know that the reflectivity of the material will depend both on its color and the texture of its surface, but we are going to need a lot more information on reflectivity of various materials than we presently have.
Wow Airplanes
Here’s the project: make a set of paper airplanes, but start with different sized sheets of paper, so that the ratio of wingspan to airplane length is different in each case.
Problem Solving
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