Disney Science Experiment

[Princess B]

I'm in my senior year of college, studying to become a 1st or 2nd grade teacher. One of my classes is on teaching science to young children, and so we've been assigned an "inquiry project" which is a fancier way of saying a science experiment. I'd love to add a unique spin my doing an Disney-related inquiry project. These are simple ideas, not "Can concrete get hot enough to cook an egg?" or "Can a potato be used to make a clock?" Think more along the lines of "What's the best way to keep an avocado from ripening too fast?" or "Can a flower bloom in a dark room?"

I currently have one idea going -- "Does ordering quick service through the app take as long as waiting in a physical line?" I'd then do the experiment by ordering a soda through the app and then waiting in line and ordering a soda at the register. I'd do this several times at several different quick service restaurants. But please please please, give me your fun ideas that I could manage in a day or two at Disney!

 

[World_Showcase_Lover007]

There are a bunch of similar “tests” you can do like going to the line/cash register farthest to the left, and comparing to ones on the right (and then hypothesize why there is a difference in wait time). Or it would be cool to look at crowd levels in comparison to number of guest complaints, but WDW won’t give you this data.

Touring Plans crunches the numbers on a lot of things like wait times, but you could re-do some of these things for instructional purposes like posted wait time v. actual wait time, time interval between buses.

Or it might be fun to take informal surveys of why ppl decided to go to the park that day (no extra magic hours, low crowd calendar rating, best available FPs, etc.). Although I would prob give a second thought to surveying ppl bc this might upset park mgmt. and could get you in trouble.

Of course, without statistical tests, any test is of limited reliability and non-scientific, but if this for grade school kids it might be ok.

 

[World_Showcase_Lover007]

If you could prove that ppl who stop in the middle of the walkway (to look at maps and have family meetings) have a significantly lower IQ, that’d be cool too...lol jk

 

[JIMINYCR]

How much longer does it take to walk around the outer circumference of the park walking at a leisurely pace in the early morning when crowds are lighter as opposed to evenings when its busier.

 

[Gillyanne]

Or along JIMINYCR's idea, if you have 2 days at MK, with a set plan of specific rides (maybe 1 big one in each land?), what's the time difference to get through them if you go counter clockwise (Tomorrowland and around) vs clockwise (Adventureland and around)?