Maze activity

1. Maze Learning
•Let’s go through a maze.
•Everyone needs to be in a pair with one other person. One will be the experimenter and the other one, the participant.
•The experimenter will record the number of dots and dead-ends the participant passes over.
•Later you can switch roles.

2. •You will need to have a large piece of (possibly construction) paper.
•Make a hole in the middle of the construction paper using a pencil. The participant will look through this hole and in order to “run” through the maze.
•You should use the following maze taped to a tabletop. NO FAIR PEEKING AT THE MAZE!
•The “experimenter” will need to have a data sheet to record the number of dead-ends and circles passed over.

3. Maze Learning (cont’d)
•The experimenter will count the number of times the participant goes over a circle interchange or a dead-end. If the participant gets to a dead-end and has to go backward, the dot is counted again.
•In the sample maze, the participant has to go over 3 dots in order to get to the end.
•The participant will hold the construction paper about 2 inches above the maze. The participant will look through the hole in order to see the maze.
•The participant needs to go from “start” to “end” 10 times. When the Participant has completed the ten trials, switch the roles of the Experimenter and the Participant.

4. Sample maze

5. Data Sheet
Trials
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Mean
Dots and Dead-ends Passed
Errors
Note: To go straight from Start to End requires the Participant to pass over 28 dots, at the very least! If they get “lost” they will pass over many more. Subtract 28 from the “Dots and Dead-ends Passed” to get the number of errors.

6. Once again, The experimenter will count the number of times the participant goes over a circle interchange or a dead-end. If the participant gets to a dead-end and has to go backward, the dot is counted again.
Note: To go straight from Start to End requires the Participant to pass over 28 dots, at the very least! If they get “lost” they will pass over many more. Subtract 28 from the “Dots and Dead-ends Passed” to get the number of errors.