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Approach:  One to one Level: Year 4 and year 8
Focus:   Motion and resistance to motion 
Resources:   Video recording on laptop computer
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Questions/instructions:

This activity uses the computer.
In this activity you will be watching a video of a person riding a scooter. Some surfaces are easier to ride a scooter on than others. Watch the video and decide which surface was the most difficult and which was the easiest to ride on.
Click the Scooter button. The video will start.
[The surfaces were sand, grass, asphalt footpath]
 
% responses
y4
y8
1. What surface was the most difficult for this person to ride on?
sand
76
86
2. Why do you think that was the most difficult surface?
not marked
•
•
3. How could you tell the sand was the most difficult to ride on?
wheels sink in and do not roll easily
48
68
slow speed seen
37
41
lots of foot pushing, hard work
45
74
4. What was the easiest surface for the person to ride on?
footpath
97
99
5. How could you tell that surface was the easiest to ride on?
fast speed seen
42
46
less foot pushing, looks easy
29
57
Total score:


7–8
8
24
5–6
37
51
3–4
41
21
0–2
14
4
Commentary:
Year 8 students explained more clearly and appropriately than year 4 students.
 
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