Time
Required: Three 45-minute sessions
Objectives
Students will
- compare
the experience of hauling one’s own water, as described in
Robert Frost’s poem “Going for Water,” to the modern
convenience of electric plumbing
- predict
the amount of water a student uses in a day and the amount of time
it would take to haul that volume by hand
- predict
and then measure the weight in pounds of a variety of standard volumes
- measure
the time to the nearest minute that it takes each student to carry
the water 50 yards
- calculate
the average (mean) amount of time needed to haul water 50 yards.
Related
Standards of Learning
| Science |
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3.1.a;
3.1.g; 3.9.c; 3.9.d;
4.1.d; 4.8.a;
5.1.c; 5.1.d; 5.1.e; 5.1.f;
6.1.c; 6.1.i; 6.7 |
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| Mathematics |
| |
3.3;
3.8; 3.10; 3.14; 3.15; 3.16; 3.24;
4.6; 4.7; 4.8; 4.10; 4.11; 4.12;
5.3; 5.5; 5.6; 5.11.a; 5.11.b; 5.11.c; 5.12; 5.19;
6.4; 6.7; 6.10;
6.19 |
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| English |
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3.1;
3.2; 3.3; 3.4; 3.5;
4.1; 4.2; 4.3; 4.4;
5.1; 5.4; 5.5;
6.1; 6.2;
6.3; 6.4 |
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| History & Social
Science |
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VS.1.b;
VS.1.d; VS.1.e; VS.1.h;
USI.1.b; USI.1.e;
USII.8 |
Materials
- containers,
labeled with volumes: cup, pint, quart, half gallon, gallon,
5 gallons
- bathroom
scale
- balance
- 30-gallon,
water-filled trashcan
- 5
yardsticks
- 2
traffic cones
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| For
each student: |
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| For
each group: |
- dictionary
- stopwatch
- gallon
bucket
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