Goals

Students prepare and test their myth and revise their experiments if necessary

 

Details

Duration: N/A

Materials: Varies based in each experiment. In many cases, students will need to obtain their materials for their speicific tests.

 

Description

This benchmark is setup to allow students time to conduct their experiments and revise them if necessary. Most experiments will not work properly the first time and they need to be tweaked and tuned. This is probably one of the most valuable scientific steps and one that is typically evident in a Mythbusters episode

Intro Montage and Myth Setup - Frozen Batteries
The myth this group set out to test was whether batteries last longer when placed in the refrigerator or freezer. This ...
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Test Preparation - The Three Little Pigs
This group investigated the fairy tale myth of "The Three Little Pigs" and whether a wolf could really blow down a straw...
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Testing and Results - Battle of the Popcorns
Is Orville Redenbacher really the best popcorn? This group set out to answer this myth. This video is a good example o...
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Author Reflections

Most of the experiments will not be done under supervision of the teacher. That is why the experimental design is so important as well as the video footage the students take. I made students review their footage with me right away so I could determine if they needed to revise their experiments or not.