Back Feeler Trick
Materials: Two pencils and a partner
Procedure:
  1. Tell your partner to take of any heavy clothes they may have on (coats, jackets, etc)
  2. Touch their back with a pencil. Ask your partner how many pencils he/she feels.
  3. Now touch their back with two pencils. Ask your partner how many pencils he/she feels. Be sure to make the pencils less than 2 cm apart.
  4. Repeat these steps and fill in a tally chart to see how manty times your partner got it right. Your chart should look something like the one below:

 

 

Judy: Correct Wrong Wrong Wrong Correct Correct Wrong Correct Wrong Wrong
Further Thinking: Look at the chart and try to draw a conclusion.
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