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Instructions in English
Congratulations, you found a UC 4-H Community Adventure Challenge! Let's have some fun!
Your challenge is to make predictions about elements in your natural environment. Knowing how to use available resources is crucial to Adventuring.
These adventures are located all around Yolo County (a complete list of locations can be found on the navigation bar on the left).
Below are directions for how to complete this fun activity. You may choose to do all three levels of difficulty, each is a little different. Select which level you would like to try first.
There is also an activity you can do at home below.
When plants grow new seeds, they use different methods to spread them around. One of the coolest ways is by exploding them into the air. Take a look at this video to see how they do it. Do you think the shape, size, and weight of the seeds would make a difference as to how far they travel? In this activity you will experiment with how different objects travel differently through the air.
- Notice the sandy pit with a metal post sticking out from it.
- Notice the other one opposite.
- Look around for three pieces of nature debris that are on the ground, such as a leaf, twig, or small rock.
- Stand with your back to the sandy pit, and throw your first piece of nature as far as you can.
- Now select your second object. Do you think it will go farther or closer than your last object?
- Throw your second object and see if your prediction is correct.
- Take your last object.
- Where do you think it will land in relation to the others?
- Throw your object and see if you are correct.
- Now collect your objects and put them in the order they landed in front of you, closest to farthest.
- Throw them all again in order to see if you get the same results a second time.
When plants grow new seeds, they use different methods to spread them around. One of the coolest ways is by exploding them into the air. Take a look at this video to see how they do it. Do you think the shape, size, and weight of the seeds would make a difference as to how far they travel? In this activity you will experiment with how different objects travel differently through the air.
- Notice the sandy pit with a metal post sticking out from it.
- Notice the other one opposite.
- Look around for three pieces of nature debris that are on the ground, such as a leaf, twig, or small rock.
- Place these objects in the order that you predict they will land, from closest to farthest from you.
- Stand with your back to the sandy pit, and throw your first piece of nature as far as you can.
- Using the “Note” App on your phone, write down the name of the object, and how many feet away you think it fell.
- Repeat with your second and third objects.
- Open the “Measure” App on your phone.
- Use this App to actually measure the exact number of feet from where you stood, to where the object landed. How close was your estimation of the distance?
ADVANCED (needs at least 2 people to play)
When plants grow new seeds, they use different methods to spread them around. One of the coolest ways is by exploding them into the air. Take a look at this video to see how they do it. Do you think the shape, size, and weight of the seeds would make a difference as to how far they travel? In this activity you will experiment with how different objects travel differently through the air.
- Notice the sandy pit with a metal post sticking out from it.
- Notice the other one opposite.
- The goal of this game is to get your objects closer to the metal post than your opponents.
- Have each person look around for four pieces of nature debris that are on the ground that you can throw (such as a leaf, twig, or small rock).
- Combine your items into a pile.
- Player 1 selects one object to throw, and tosses it towards the opposite sand pit.
- Player 2 selects and throws an object.
- Repeat with as many other players as you have.
- Whomever got their object closest to the metal post scores a point. Write this in your “Notes” App on your phone.
- Remove the used objects from the game area.
- Switch sides for round 2.
- Use only the remaining objects yet to be played.
- Player 2 now selects and throws out the first object.
- Rotate the thrower until all of the objects are gone.
- Whomever got their object closer to the metal post scores a point. Write this in your “Notes” App.
- Remove the used objects from the game area.
- Switch to the other sand pit with the remaining un-thrown objects.
- Repeat as above.
- Switch sides for the final/fourth round to determine the winner.
- Take a photo and use #Yolo4H
WHILE YOU ARE HERE
There are several other activities at this park. Check out the map to the left, or explore the park on your own to hunt for more signs.
Want to play something similar at home? Here are instructions to make your own tabletop horseshoe game.
You can also buy some real horseshoes (available at sporting goods stores) and bring them to use the sandy horseshoe pit. Here are instructions on how to play the game.
LOCATION (for those without a smart phone)
Harris Park, 100 Imperial St, Woodland, CA 95695
What did you throw?
Posted by Henry and Andrew Podsakoff on January 10, 2021