Fit Bits with Dr. Lee
By: Carina L.
A few weeks ago my 5th grade class got introduced to Fit Bits, a device that measures how many steps you take. On our first day we pulled out papers from two baskets. The papers said things like, “Jump for 30 seconds on one foot,” and “Run from the elevator to the copy machine,” and “Repeat skipping and walking,” and “step up and down on your chair for 30 seconds.” We had to record our data and compare it to when we were still. We were exhausted!
A few days later we finished and made hypotheses about what would happen if
we tracked our steps and then tried it out. A week or so later Dr. Lee, a student at Utah State University, and his cameramen handed out sticky notes with some information on them. They separated us into groups and gave us big charts that read:
0-10, 11-20, 21-30, etc. We looked at the sticky notes and back at the chart. What were we to do? “Oh!” someone shouted out, “my sticky note says: Carina, steps 27.” So I put the sticky note on the number 21-30 because I got 27 steps. Our teachers helped us chart the rest of our data by setting off to stick up the rest of our sticky notes! (Wow, that is kind of a tongue-twister!)
When we finished we did more fun activities and I hope that we will continue to do even more.
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