Mrs. Beverly Pryor-Young, Science Department

Sports are an integral part of daily life. They are played by children, teenagers, adults and when adults are older they go and watch others play sports. This cultural habit does not seem likely to disappear. While sports events are becoming more important as the glue that holds families and communities together, there is a danger that causes some parents to cringe when little ‘Johnnie” tells them he wants to play football: Brain Damage or Injury. Since it doesn’t look like sports are going away, how can we arm our children with the tools that help them choose to be safe?.

Challenge Based learning is used to expose you to wonderful projects that you will learn through. Students experience calculating speed, velocity, and acceleration while understanding how these variables affect collision in sporting activities. The unit project is an explanation of your research test results on safety materials, designed by designed by you that your results show will protect the brain. Decisions are based on data collected on the materials at various acceleration/force collision tests. The project results will be presented in a Power Point or Prezzi presentation..

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• Explain the differences between speed and velocity

• Design a test of speed, collect and present data, draw conclusions

• Generate guiding questions design question

• Work in teams

• Design a protective gear

• Use Microsoft Excel to answer algebraic problem related to design test

• Students will learn to use TI-83 Graphing Calculators, Triple Beam Balances, Stopwatch, Air tracks, Motion Detectors.

• How does collision effect your brain or other parts

of your body?

• What is the relationship between velocity,

momentum and force.

• How can the brain be protected from impact

situations?

• What types of impact can there be?

• What causes the damage?

• How much force is needed from an impact, to

causes damage?

• How do you calculate the force needed to cause the

impact?

• What materials might protect against impact?.

CHALLENGE

THE PROJECT

GUIDING QUESTIONS

YOU WILL:

REFERENCES

You’ve only got one!

Your Brain on

Sports

Did he hit the ball or did the ball

hit him?

What was the speed of

the man?

Your Brain on

Sports

Did his acceleration negative at the time

of impact?

E=mc2

S=d/t

To=C

CEEMS is supported by the National Science Foundation grant # 1102990. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, and/or recommendations are those of the investigators and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.