RC Car Science Fair Projects for Kids
Hand-Eye Coordination

RC Car Science Fair Projects for Kids About Hand-Eye Coordination begins here at Hand Eye Coordination science fair projects.

PROCEDURES

1. Hand out and collect parent permission slips to three seventh grade classes and three third grade classes to gain subjects.
2. Make a course outlined with masking tape on a flat, hard surface (such as flooring) using the blueprint as a guide.
3. Accompany the first subject to the testing area.
4. On the data collection sheet, record the subject’s age, gender and name.
5. Read the experimenter’s script aloud to the subject as instructions.
6. Then, give a short demonstration to the subject on how to operate the radio control car.
a. Show how the controller works
b. Answer any questions the subject has
7. Let the subject practice driving the car for about two minutes.
8. When the subject is done test-driving the radio control car, set up the test.
a. Set the stopwatch
b. Put the radio control car at the start of the course
c. Hand the controller to the subject
9. Wait for the subject to state that they are ready by saying “ready” then the experimenter says “go” and starts the stopwatch.
10. While the subject drives through the course, tally the number of mistakes made, on the data collection sheet. (A mistake is any time the wheel of the car touches the tape or goes outside the tape.)
11. When the subject reaches the end of the course, stop the stopwatch.
12. Record the time it took the subject to drive through the course and the amount of mistakes on the data collection sheet.
13. Repeat steps 8-12 one more time with the same subject.
14. Thank the subject for their time and escort them back to their classroom to get another subject.
15. Repeat steps 3-14 with all the other subjects being tested.
16. Erase all names from the data sheets.
17. Average the scores for each test group.

RESULTS

The original purpose of this experiment was to compare the hand-eye coordination of third graders with seventh graders.

The results of the experiment were that the seventh graders’ average time was 28.5 seconds and their average number of mistakes was 3.5 errors. The third graders’ average time was 57.4 seconds and their average number of mistakes was 7.7 errors.

CONCLUSION

My first hypothesis was that the seventh graders would make fewer mistakes on average than the third graders when driving through the course.

The results indicate that this hypothesis should be accepted, because it took the seventh graders half as much time on average as it took the third graders.

My second hypothesis was that the seventh graders would drive the car through the course at a faster speed on average than the third graders.

The results indicate that this hypothesis should be accepted, because the seventh graders made half as many errors on average as did the third graders.

Because of the results of this experiment, I wonder if there truly is a difference between girls’ and boys’ hand-eye coordination, as my data appears to suggest. On a completely different note, I realize that the speed of my test car could affect student performance. I now wonder what radio control car shape and brand is the fastest and most accurately controlled.

If I were to conduct this project again I would make the course a bit easier. I observed that it was much too difficult for the third graders. I would try to find a task for my subjects to complete that none of them would have practiced before the experiment. I would also test many more subjects in each age group. 3rd party contributor