RPS

• Weaker hand experiment


  1. Use your weaker hand

  2. Sit down on the chair with good posture and eyes looking across the room

  3. Place the forearm of your weaker arm across the table with your hand hanging over the table

  4. Your partner will hold a ruler vertically with the end saying 0cm in between your thumb and first finger

  5. Your partner will take hold of the ruler and ask you to remove your fingers

  6. Your partner will hold the ruler so the zero mark is level with your thumb

  7. Your partner will then drop the ruler without telling you

  8. Catch the ruler quickly as you can

  9. Look at the number level with the top of your thumb on the ruler

  10. Record this as a measure of how fast you caught it in a table
• Measuring daisy population


  1. Place 30 m tape measure across school field to form transect line

  2. Place 1m2 quadrat against transect line at 0 m mark

  3. Count number of daisy plants within quadrat

  4. Record number of daisies in table

  5. Move quadrat 5 m up transect line and count daisies again

  6. Continue placing quadrat at 5 m intervals and counting daisies

  7. Calculate mean number of daisy plants per m2 for trampled area

  8. Move tape measure to un-trampled part of field for new transect line

  9. Place quadrat at 5 m intervals and count daisies

  10. Record daisies in table

  11. Calculate mean number of daisy plants per m2 for un-trampled area

  12. Compare daisy population size between trampled and un-trampled areas