Franki Sibberson is out with another Solve it Your Way challenge. Here’s the question:
Who in your family can jump the highest?
If you do the science, I’ll post the results on this space and link to Franki’s website.
Below is a good format to follow when you do the science. You can create a video (Oh, my! See the end of this post for inspiration!) or a short write-up of what you found out. Include photos if you want. Just send me the text and photos / video via email and I can put the post together.
- Hypothesis — Tells what you think will happen and why based on what you already know about jumping.
- List of Materials — Tells the tools and supplies you needed to gather to do the experiment.
- Procedure — Tells a step-by-step of how you did the experiment and recorded the results.
- Results — Shows in a table or graph what happened. Also write a short description to tell what the results were, too.
- Discussion — Tells what you learned and maybe tells what experiments you might like to do next to test your ideas further.
In the meantime, for jumping inspiration, here is a story about D.J. Stephens who recorded a record-breaking 46-inch vertical jump this spring while at the NBA draft camp.
And still more inspiration. This old man remembers watching the great Michael Jordan, whose vertical leap wasn’t too shabby either, scrape the sky when he played for the Chicago Bulls. Check out these dunks. I remember some of them.