Students will develop the protocol and receive training in the measurements to be taken for this project. These students will select a sport and form study teams with students from grades 7 to 10. The measurement of stature, leg and arm lengths, and estimates of body fat will be made in these study teams during science class while the data entry and statistical analyses will be completed during math or science class. Data collection, data analysis and interpretation, the mechanics of movement, and the application of technology to math and science are areas that will be emphasized in this project. This project addresses how human bodies grow and develop over time and how this growth affects sports performance.
Students are curious about they grow especially in relationship to their peers.
This project builds upon this curiosity and allows the students to explore these questions in a structured and guided manner. Students will work in teams and train in the methods of anthropometry, the measurement of the human body. These activities require calipers or measuring tapes, metersticks, skinfold calipers, and human skeleton. These activities require paper, pencils, spreadsheet software, computers, calipers, metersticks, and skinfold calipers. Measurements illustrations are given in a graphical manner on the next page.