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What is the weight of your school bag?
Investigation
Goal
- To track the correlation between the weight of a school bag and each grade in the school.
- Discover which grade carries the heaviest school bags.
Research question
- Does the use of digital textbooks in middle and high school correlate to schoolbags becoming lighter during those years?
- Does using digital textbooks- instead of paper ones- really affect the weight of a schoolbag?
Equipment
School bag, electronic scale(s)
Why use data from multiple participants?
Gathering results from many different schools allows a comparison to be made.
Investigation Protocol
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Safety tips
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