Potato Olympics

Potato Olympics

Choose from some of the following Olympic events.

Olympic Event 1

Distance

Let the potato down a ramp and measure the distance it rolls. In this event, you are measuring length.

Olympic Event 2

Weight Lifting

How many weights will stack on your potato? In this event you are measuring mass.

Diving

Materials:

Metre ruler

Ice-cream container

Tub

Water

Capacity measures

Instructions:

Put a small bucket or ice-cream container full to the brim of water inside an empty tub. Drop your potato from a height of 1 metre into the water. Measure the amount of water that splashes into the tub. Any out of the tub doesn’t count. In this event, you are measuring capacity.

Gymnastics

Line up six chopsticks closely together so that they create a bridge across two books. Balance your potato on the chopsticks. Slowly take one chopstick away, one at a time and see how long before your potato falls.

Spinning

Place your potato on a flat surface and spin it. Time how long your potato can spin for (spins per second).