Science Technology and Social Change Discussion

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The Science Game

REPORTING on this GAME counts as your Final Assessment.

One of the main objectives of science is to figure out the “rules” of the universe. How will something fall? disintegrate? interact? combine? and so on. Scientists do this by observing, measuring, constructing theories. 

Here’s your chance to tackle at least one of the jobs of science: figuring out rules simply by observing. 

I call this the Science Game.

First you’ll need 2 teams, or at least 4 people in all. It’s a chance to involve family/friends, opportunities I like to provide since so many of you are juggling classes, jobs, and families.

Next, assemble “game pieces” -- anything around the house or garage that comes in large quantities: paper clips, push pins, small toy pieces, marbles, small hair clips, coins, nails, small balls . . . and maybe one or two larger pieces. 

Instructions:

2 TEAMS of 2 or more go off separately and make up a game using some or all of the “equipment” -- figure out some rules to determine who will “win” the game. It could be something like a board game where pieces are moved around, or it might involve throwing, rolling, whatever!

After a specified amount of time, Team 1 will play the game in front of Team 2, silently! Team 2 has to figure out the rules—how to play, how to score, how to win—just by watching Team 1 play.

Then, of course, reverse and Team 1 will watch Team 2 play.

The takeaway is that you’ve mimicked the way a scientist has to watch a “silent” universe behave and figure out its rules. The law of gravity, the 2nd law of thermodynamics, E=mc2 -- all of these have come about by watching nature play its game.

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The entire games experience was interesting since we each got to understand how understanding
things from simply observing is a difficult task. Both teams experienced difficulties trying to
make out what the other team’s game was. The teams were categorized into two; Team A and
Team B where Team A was the first team that portrayed their game while Team B was the
second to portray their game. Team B took more time trying to figure out Team A’s game as
opposed to the time Team A took trying to figure out Team B’s game. The entire experience was
interesting and especially when each team was trying to guess what the other team was doing.
Our teams were each made up of four people since we were a total of eight people. We had to
make use of the garage space since the games needed some space and the garage has sufficient
space. The first team used one small ball and four, nonfunctional car tires. The game was
complex since it took a lot of time for Team B to understand what was going on. The team
placed the four tires in four corners forming a rectan...


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