My co-workers and I thought of an idea for Plickers in PE.

When running the mile it can be difficult to keep track of 50 or 90 students. While a teacher is trying to mark down a large group of students coming around the track, other students can be missed or may try cutting the lap when the teacher is not looking.

Our idea is to utilize the plickers system to mark down laps and running time. The program would need a stopwatch and a # of laps setting(we have a 2 lap mile and a 4 lap mile at our school). Each "marker" would need to be scanned the number of times specified by the teacher. Each lap would record a split time that way if a student cut the lap, they will be caught. Once they finish their xth lap(based off of what the teacher has selected), the system will give them a final time of which can be printed out to post for student viewing.

This is similar to chip timing, minus the need for batteries, a computer, or scanning mats. It is hard to find affordable technologies to apply to PE classes, and we think this can be a big step for PE classes all around.

Thank you for your consideration,

Ryan Lucker

Greenfield Middle School

PE Teacher

(661) 837-6110 (work)