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How fast are your reactions in the case of an emergency? Young scholars complete many activities including: time estimation, building a circuit, multiple reaction time experiments, and graphing.
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NGSS:
Adaptable
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Instructional Ideas
- Team teach this with driver's education
- Have students collect response time data from family or community members, then graph by age
Classroom Considerations
- Helps to have basic knowledge of circuitry, but it is not required
- The first lesson in a series of nine
Pros
- Provides homework questions to give pupils extra practice
- Includes three extension ideas to keep the content fresh
Cons
- Document permissions do not allow for printing