skateboarding & the Science Connection

skateboarding & the Science Connection

1. Earth Science

   • 8.E.3. Role of Water
     • it talks about how with weather systems where most of the weather takes places on the troposphere.
     • skateboarders would ride on top of the surface on flat surfaces
     • Explain how sedimentary rock is formed (embedding plant and animal remains and leaving a record of the sequence in which plants and animals disappeared)

2. Astronomy

   • 8.D.2. Regular and Predictable Motion
     • Identify and explain celestial phenomena using the regular and predictable motion of objects in the solar system
       • it include the various phases of the Moon, meteor showers, comets, solar and lunar eclipses, planetary oppositions, conjunctions, and occultations.
       • When a skateboarder goes on a halfpipe it makes a revolution around.

3. Biology

   • 8.D.1. Change Over Time
     • Recognize and describe that evolutionary change in species over time occurs as a result of genetic variation in organisms and environmental changes.
       • It talks about of over a certain time things start to change into a different thing because of the environment changing ot because of a natural cause of genitics being mixed.
       • The way people use their bodies to maneuver the skateboard. It takes balance and coordination to properly control a skateboard. They use different ways of doing this. And it changes over time with people coming up with different things.

4. Chemistry

   • 8.D.3. Chemical Reactions:
     • Provide evidence to support the fact that common substances have the ability to change into new substances.
       • how people can use wood to change into a wooden chair.
       • The wheels are usually made of polyurethane. The trucks are usually an aluminum alloy. There are other metals used.

5. Physics

   • 8.A.1. Motion:
     • Develop an explanation of motion using the relationships among time, distance, velocity and acceleration.
       • Once time has passed mountains tend to change because of weathering.
       • It takes physical reasoning to figure out how fast to go and how much time it takes to do a trick.The speed = distance /time knowledge is the math of skateboarding physics.

6. Thermodynamics

   • 8.B.2. Heat Transformations
     • Identify and explain that heat energy is a product of the conversion of one form of energy to another.
       • When heat is on your body the wind takes it away to make you cooler.
       • When a skateboarder is trying to attempt a trick it takes a lot of its energy to be able to succeed. Also with all the work sweat starts to be created.

7. Environmental Issues

   • 8.B.1. Environmental Impact
     • Recognize and explain how human activities can accelerate or magnify many naturally occurring changes.
       • Skateboarding takes a lot of thinking and also it takes a lot of energy for you to actually complete it.
       • We humas can help the world by using more natural things to change the world and help it. So that a lot of carbn dioxide isn't in the air so much.