By: Joanne

Conclusion: When I started this

project, I asked people: "what

is your room color?" and "what

was your behavior like?". After

I finish recording the data, I

found out that most of the stu-

dents room are white and their

behavior are not same.

My hypothesis was not sup-

ported by the data because the

lighter color of the room did not

matter because some people

have dark color room and their

behavior is more cheerful than

the lighter on.

That is why my

hypothesis is

not supported

by the data. In

my feedback,

Chee Woo told

me to change

the sample size

to 10 people

instead of 20 so I decided it

was a good idea. In the end, I

change the sample size.

Follow up questions:

1. Why does white room color is

the most frequent one I've

seen?

2. Will the result be the same if

I tested on more people?

3. Do you think that the result

Does room color affect your behavior? By Joanne

would be same if I ask the

whole school this question?

I collected data from different

people room color and behav-

iors.

Vanessa-purple, green

Happy, friendly

Ping-pink

Helpful, kind, gloomy

Long-cream

Funny, grumpy, friendly

Mr. Johnsy on—white

Chill, funny

Caroline– green

Happy, kind

Ben-white

Special points of

interest:

• Which room color is the

best for learning?

• Does background music

help you concentrate?

• What affects melting?

• Why does your heartbeat speed up when you’re

scared?

• Does Gum help you concen-

trate?

• What light helps you con-

centrate the most?

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Issue #1

Room color and behav-ior. By Joanne

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Music an d concentra-tion By Na Young

2

Ice and Melting By Jenny

3

Heart beat while scared By Vincent

4

Chewing and Concen-tration By Ben

5

Light and concentra-tion By Ho Sung

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Inside this issue:

Data on this Experiment

Conclusion: After testing almost 15

people I figured out that not all of

the people get confused. Some

people got bad grades with music

and when I did the same person

without music they got the same

grade. So not all people get con-

fused or make a mistake in the

test. So I think that most of the

people get confused with rock

music and when I turned on ballad

they were so calm and got a better

grade then not having any music.

My hypothesis was not supported

by my data. I thought that no mu-

sic would be better to concentrate

but with ballad music was much

better.

Follow up Question:

1.Why does the people get better

grade when they have ballad mu-

sic?

Does the brain recognize the mu-

sic that’s what it affects?

How does brain get confused

when music is on? My feedback

was the sample size is small but I

think it is okay for me. I got

enough data.

Does background music affect our concentration? By Na Young

Does background music affect our

concentration?

Vanessa: Yes

Dad: no

Mom: yes

Me: Yes, certainly

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My friend doing the test with no

music~

Conclusion: My question is “What

keep ice from melting better a water

bottle or a plastic container?” What I

did was find a water bottle and a plas-

tic container, I put in each 3,4 ice and

wait for a few minutes. After a few

minutes, the plastic container has a lot

of water and little ice. The water bottle

has little water and the ice is a little

smaller than when I put it in. My hy-

pothesis is the water bottle keeps the

ice from melting better than the plas-

tic container. My hypothesis is sup-

ported by the data. So the water bottle

is better to keep ice in.

Follow up questions:

1. How did the water bottle keep the

ice from melting?

2. Why didn’t the plastic container

do better?

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What keeps ice from melting better a water bottle or a plastic container? By: Jenny

Conclusion: Human's heart beats faster when they got

scared, because when they got scared or surprised

their blood will stop for 5 seconds and after the 5 sec-

onds ends, our body really needs more oxygen, so the

heart will start pumping really fast to restore the oxy-

gen that's needed for our body.

My hypothesis was not supported, because I

thought that our heart pumps faster when we got scared

was, because we were afraid so the brain send a mes-

sage to the heart and so our heart pumps faster.

The people need to breathe in more air which

will make our heart pumps faster. So getting scared is

bad for our health, because it will make our heart works

harder.

My peer editor Chee Woo said what is my sam-

ple size, so I decided the sample size to be 20 people.

20 people isn’t that much people, so it’s more measur-

able.

Follow Up Questions

Why do people’s heart pumps faster when they are scared? By Vincent

Heart beat: 0 17

Heart beat: 5 2

Heart beat :10

0

Heart beat: 15 1

Heart beat: 20 0

Number of heart

beat

Why does our heart stops

pumping for 5 seconds when

we got scared?

How much oxygen does our

body needs per minute?

Is getting scared good or bad for

our health? Why?

CONCLUSION: After doing my experi-

ment, "Will chewing gum help people

concentrate better?", I found out that

gum DO help people help people con-

centrate better when chewing them.

When I actually started to chew it my

self, I felt that it would help you con-

centrate better when chewing them.

Even though there were many people

who didn't say that it helped them con-

centrate, there were few people more

who said that it helped them concen-

trate better. The gum that I gave to the

people was a gum called, "Sense Mint

- Apple". After reading my partner's

feedback,

which was

"Make them

do some-

thing while

chewing

gum", I

thought of

changing

my experi-

ment, but

then when I

over

thought it again, I thought that then the

experiment would be to compli-

cated if I changed it.

My hypothesis was not supported

by my data. I hypothesized that

gum will not help people concen-

trate better, but after doing my

experiment, I found out that gum

actually did help people concen-

trate better.

Follow Up questions:

Does Chewing Gum Help You Concentrate Better? By Ben

1. What affect does gum do to the per-

son's brain to make them help concen-

trate better?

2. Will different taste of gum change

the concentration of people?

3. Why do people think that gum help

them concentrate them better?

Page 5 Newsletter Title

Does Chewing Gum

Help You Concentrate

Better?

Joanne: Yes

Daniel: No effect

Un Chan: Yes

Vincent: Yes

Hye Rin: Yes

Conclusion: My experiment was

about "Which light will make you

concentrate more in your work?" I

did this experiment with other

people not in our school. I did it to

7 people and I started the experi-

ment. Then later after I wrote like

if she said that color make her or

his concentrate. I found out that 4

people concentrated with blue

lights and other 3 people concen-

trated on another color.

I don’t think my partner’s feed

back helped me because 7 people

is enough. Like 1 or 2 is too little.

20 or 15 is too much so I think we

can do 7 people.

Follow up Questions:

1. Which color rather than blue

makes you concentrate?

2. How many minutes do we have

to experiment to make the answer

really accurate?

3. Why does blue light make you

concentrate more?

Data Table

I did this project with 7 peo-

ples and there are 4 differ-

ent kinds of colors. Then af-

ter the project 4 people

liked blue and 3 liked other

colors, I mean it made you

concentrate more.

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What light helps you concentrate the most? By Ho Sung