In Year 3 today, we were investigating – ‘Can people with longer femurs jump further?’

We all made a prediction and about half the class thought that it would affect the distance and the other half thought that it would not.

We discussed how we could possibly test this out and we decided that we would need to measure our own femur then compare this to other people in the class. We said that we would then get these people to carry out two jumps and we would record the distance to work out the theory.

We write down the method then looked at how we would make this test a fair one – we would all need to do the same type of jump, we would need to jump from the same starting point and we would need to measure the distance in the same way.

We carried put the tests and recorded our results in a table.

We concluded that you did not have to have a longer femur to jump further.