How can you determine the height of a drop off a cliff if you have nothing to measure it with? A movie clip sets up a sky-high challenge and solves it with a falling glow stick. Scholars must take the given information and decide how high they are from the bottom. To finish, they compare their answers to the answer from the movie.

Concepts

gravity, quadratic formula, speed

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Find the answer in metric and imperial measurements
• Discuss why they used a glow stick and not a rock

Classroom Considerations

• Assumes students know the speed things fall based on gravity

Pros

• Relates math to a popular movie
• Introduces a rarely used survival skill

Cons

• None

Common Core

HSA-CED.A.1 HSF-BF.A.1.a HSF-LE.A.3 MP4