The Paris Olympic Games are fast approaching.

Paris are aiming to be the world’s first carbon-neutral Olympic Games.

The Games will run on 100% green energy generated from wind and solar. Cleaned water from the River Seine will be used for Olympic swimming. The Games will use almost entirely existing venues. Local farmers will be supplying the athletes meals. 800 miles of new cycle lanes have been added and 300,000 new trees planted. Seats are being made out of recycled plastic bottles.

Our big question

Does age affect reaction time?

As a class we discussed the question. Collectively the children decided that as a baby you are born with poor reactions but they get better as you get older.
The children decided that you are at your reaction peak at age 36!

(It’s downhill from there!!)

Their logic was footballers start to retire around this age!
 

To investigate our theory we firstly stood in a line in age order from youngest to oldest.

We conducted two different reaction tests, the first was an online reaction checker app.

We did three tests then worked out the average.

These are our results, we lined up in order from slowest to quickest.

Our second experiment was the ruler reaction test.

We did the test three times and took an average.

Again we lined up in order from slowest to quickest.

These are the results:

Our results showed that our initial idea was not correct.

Age did not have an affect on reaction times and in fact the teachers (who are well over 36years old!) had a faster reaction time to many of the children!

We investigated other factors of the fastest children…..

Were they predominantly male or female?
Had those children had breakfast?

Did those children do regular exercise?

Our results were quite puzzling as there was no common factor to the results until we asked the children….

Are you a regular gamer?

The quickest children were predominantly children who game regularly.

How interesting 🤔!
 

Light travels in a straight line from a light source.