Its About Time
This Gt unit is about timers and using them to time different things.We will be timing on our iPads,homemade timers and stopwatches.Lets get started!
For our first activity ,anyone who wants to, gets to read part of a book.The hard part is they have to say stop when they counted while reading or think they have read for a minute.The closest time we had to a minute was 59.6.After that,we pulled up the clock app on our iPad.We pressed go then put our heads down and closed our eyes.We hovered our finger over the start and stop button and when we though or counted a minute in or head we pressed stop.I learned that it is really hard to count when you read.
For our next activity our classroom split into two teams,boys and girls.We each got a certain amount of dominos and we tried to knock them over and get as close to five seconds as we can.We did one test and got around 7 seconds.When we tried it a second time we took of some dominos to get less time which we though would hopefully get closer to five.We also put the dominos on their side because it was easier to set up and it knocked down slower.We got 5.65 seconds.The girls have won!!!I learned You have to test more than once and make changes in order for this to work.
For our first activity ,anyone who wants to, gets to read part of a book.The hard part is they have to say stop when they counted while reading or think they have read for a minute.The closest time we had to a minute was 59.6.After that,we pulled up the clock app on our iPad.We pressed go then put our heads down and closed our eyes.We hovered our finger over the start and stop button and when we though or counted a minute in or head we pressed stop.I learned that it is really hard to count when you read.
For our next activity our classroom split into two teams,boys and girls.We each got a certain amount of dominos and we tried to knock them over and get as close to five seconds as we can.We did one test and got around 7 seconds.When we tried it a second time we took of some dominos to get less time which we though would hopefully get closer to five.We also put the dominos on their side because it was easier to set up and it knocked down slower.We got 5.65 seconds.The girls have won!!!I learned You have to test more than once and make changes in order for this to work.
1st test (7 seconds)
2nd test(5 seconds)
My second favorite activity was making hourglasses.My group used 2 cups,sand,tape,2 funnels,and several coffee stirs.We put the two funnels together and found that the sand travels to fast to end at one minute ,so we packed a bunch of short cut coffee stirs into the middle of the hourglass.This resulted in the sand traveling slower.Our groups hourglass was the closest to one minute so we won!I learned that making these takes a lot of time and is pretty hard!!!
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