Finger marathon using a clothes peg

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Seaweek is New Zealand’s annual national week about the sea. It is coordinated by the Sir Peter Blake Marine Education and Recreation Centre (MERC) and includes...

Tired muscles? is a ready-to-use cross-curricular teaching resource. It uses the Ministry of Education’s 2015 Connected article ‘Why do our muscles get tired?’ by Zoe Armstrong...

In this activity, students investigate muscle fatigue using the action of opening and closing a clothes peg. Extension ideas include graphing, averages and further investigations into...