Speed Kills! (Or Does It?)

With some additional concept learning, skateboarding during class time can be incorporated into a debate that encourages students to practice scientific argumentation. With a debate comes the opportunity to include a social or moral dilemma and have students use argumentation techniques as well as science to limits justify a position. Among other things Dolan and Zeidler presents an engaging hands-on activity with a skateboard introduces the scientific knowledge that will be used for a later debate about speed limits.