In my project I find out whether children or adults get more exercise. My hypothesis is that children will get more exercise. I think this because children move around a lot more such as walking to school, walking in the hallways, gym class, after school sports and many other things children participate in. But, with an adult, most of their jobs are sitting at a desk all day or driving.
Procedure-
Collect 20 people to participate
give each person a step counter
have them wear it for 24 hours
record data
repeat 20 times.
For my project of the 2014-2015 school year was trying to find out whether children or adults take the most steps. I tested my project twenty times so I could try and get the most precise answer to my problem. I predicted that children take the most steps and my hypothesis was correct on every text I took. I wanted to do this problem because I was always wondering as a child if i got more exercise than my parents. I’m glad to have discovered that i have been right all throughout this time.
My science fair project for the 2014-2015 school year is testing who gets the most exercise, children or adults? After much time of thinking I finally came up with this idea. This idea came to me because I wanted to do something that anyone could participate in. Four out of five people are able to walk, run, bike, etc. and in my project it involves all of that. In my project, I gave ten children and ten adults a step counter to carry around for 24 hours. My hypothesis was that children get the most exercise because they are constantly moving by walking to school, walking through the hallways, gym class, biking to a friends house, etc.. But with an adult, most of them drive to work, and sit in an office all day. Not many adults have the time to exercise either.
The first step I took was to find 20 participants: ten children and ten adults. I had to have them sign a permission form that allowed them to participate in my project. Next I gave everybody a step counter to carry around with them for 24 hours. After hat I recorded all my data. I repeated all these steps twenty for each person.
When I was testing my project I made sure to make it the same way for each person so my data was as precise as it could get. Most of the Children I tested were about 12/13, so i would be the pre-teen time. I chose this age group for the children because this is when children, I believe, are most active. Each Child I tested had around the same amount of steps ranging from 8,000 to 12,000 steps per day. There was one child I noticed had a very large number compared to the others and this child had approximately 21,000 steps. I believe this child had such a higher number than the rest is because this child was the shortest. The shorter someone is the more steps they must take compared to a taller person because their legs are not nearly as long as the taller person. This could have a big impact on my science fair project. For the adults, I tested between the ages between 28 and 30. I tested these ages because I believe that adults are most active during this time because they are busy with work, possibly their own children, and trying to stay healthy by exercising. Most of these adults though ranged from 7,000 to 9,000. There were two adults that i tested that scored in the 10,000 area. I believe that they scored the highest is because they were the youngest participants i had for adults.
In my project for the 2014-2015 school year I discovered that my hypothesis was correct. Children take much more steps than adults per day. I believe that my hypothesis was correct was because children have much more things to do in their day such as walk to school, walk from class to class, walking their dog, gym class, and extra cicrulcuam activities such as sports. I believe that my data was very accurate because I made sure each person wore the step counter for exactly 24 hours of one day. My data clearly showed that my science fair project was a success.