Stride Science: Weekly Science Project Idea and Home Science Activity Spotlight

How fast do you walk a certain distance? How is your height related?

In this week's spotlight: a sports science project that invites students and families to examine the relationship between walking pace and height. Do you have to walk faster or slower to keep up with a friend or family member? How is that related to how tall each of you is, and why? Can you estimate how tall someone is by how many steps they take to cover a certain distance? Put this question to the test with a simple hands-on science experiment and learn more about special ratios that can be used to talk about the human body.

• Keeping Up (full Science Buddies Project Idea)
• Stepping Science: Estimating Someone's Height from Their Walk (science activity at Scientific American)