SSISCHOOL HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM

MR. JOHNSTON’S GR. 6 SCIENCE CLASS “B”

BLOCK
Issue #1

X-Perience Science

Inside this issue:

Does room color affect your behavior? By Joanne
Room color and behav- 1
ior. By Joanne By: Joanne the lighter on.

Music an d concentra- 2 Conclusion: When I started this That is why my

tion By Na Young
project, I asked people: "what hypothesis is
Ice and Melting By 3
is your room color?" and "what not supported
Jenny
was your behavior like?". After by the data. In
Heart beat while scared 4
By Vincent I finish recording the data, I my feedback,
found out that most of the stu- Chee Woo told
Chewing and Concen- 5
tration By Ben dents room are white and their me to change

Light and concentra- 6 behavior are not same.
tion By Ho Sung
6
My hypothesis was not sup-
ported by the data because the
lighter color of the room did not
matter because some people
Special points of
interest: have dark color room and their
• Which room color is the behavior is more cheerful than
best for learning?
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 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?
Data on this Experiment
would be same if I ask the Funny, grumpy, friendly
whole school this question? Vanessa-purple, green Mr. Johnsy on—white
I collected data from different Happy, friendly Chill, funny
people room color and behav- Ping-pink Caroline– green
iors. Helpful, kind, gloomy Happy, kind
Long-cream Ben-white
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Does background music affect our concentration? By Na Young
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
Does background music affect our
concentration?
Vanessa: Yes
Dad: no
Mom: yes
Me: Yes, certainly
X-Perience Science
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.
My friend doing the test with no
music~
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What keeps ice from melting better a water bottle or a plastic container? By: Jenny
Conclusion: My question is “What
keep ice from melting better a water ported by the data. So the water bottle
bottle or a plastic container?” What I is better to keep ice in.
did was find a water bottle and a plas-
Follow up questions:
tic container, I put in each 3,4 ice and
wait for a few minutes. After a few 1. How did the water bottle keep the
minutes, the plastic container has a lot ice from melting?
of water and little ice. The water bottle 2. Why didn’t the plastic container
has little water and the ice is a little do better?
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-
 Why do people’s heart pumps faster when they are scared? By Vincent

Conclusion: Human's heart beats faster when they got Number of heart
scared, because when they got scared or surprised beat
their blood will stop for 5 seconds and after the 5 sec- Heart beat: 0 17
onds ends, our body really needs more oxygen, so the
heart will start pumping really fast to restore the oxy- Heart beat: 5 2
gen that's needed for our body.
My hypothesis was not supported, because I
Heart beat :10 0
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. Heart beat: 15 1

The people need to breathe in more air which

will make our heart pumps faster. So getting scared is Heart beat: 20 0

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 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?
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Does Chewing Gum Help You Concentrate Better? By Ben

CONCLUSION: After doing my experi- - Apple". After reading my partner's thought it again, I thought that then the
ment, "Will chewing gum help people feedback, experiment would be to compli-
concentrate better?", I found out that which was cated if I changed it.
gum DO help people help people con- "Make them
centrate better when chewing them. do some- My hypothesis was not supported
When I actually started to chew it my thing while by my data. I hypothesized that
self, I felt that it would help you con- chewing gum will not help people concen-
centrate better when chewing them. gum", I trate better, but after doing my
Even though there were many people thought of experiment, I found out that gum
who didn't say that it helped them con- changing actually did help people concen-
centrate, there were few people more my experi- trate better.
who said that it helped them concen- ment, but
trate better. The gum that I gave to the then when I
people was a gum called, "Sense Mint over

Follow Up questions:
Does Chewing Gum
Help You Concentrate
Better?
1. What affect does gum do to the per-
Joanne: Yes
son's brain to make them help concen-
trate better? Daniel: No effect
2. Will different taste of gum change Un Chan: Yes
the concentration of people? Vincent: Yes
3. Why do people think that gum help
Hye Rin: Yes
them concentrate them better?

What light helps you concentrate the most? By Ho Sung
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?
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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.