SCIENCE FAIR
 
Hypothesis My hypothesis is that exercising is going to work the best, because it the only time when your blood is pumping in your body. It moves around to the body and the brain. The brain controls the body and has memorizing function. The group that is exercise will have their blood pumping. So my independent variable which is exercise will have better trade-offs to work. It will be a good variable to change because it has a lot of research to find. If I had to choose playing board games it won't have the same accurate result. Statement of the Problem I am attempting to solve the problem of which type of activity helps you memorize better. My two types of activities is exercising and playing board games. When doing this experiment it will help students memorize in their test and quizzes. Usually many students memorize with flash cards or verbal sayings. It's important to know that which way helps you do a better job in school. The things that benefit my answer is for example, when you can't find anybody to study with or find available paper and want to study in a faster way people could memorize. I want to find out which activity works the best. 
    I am going to test this on 10 students on each group. There were two sections that the groups went to. One group went to the exercise section and the other group at the board game section. Till 5 min. is up they will go to the memorizing section. While being in the memorizing section they will have 1 min. to remember many objects as possible then they will have 1 min. to record everything they remembered. Then I will compare all the results and see which group remembers many objects. My independent variable is exercise and playing board games. And my dependent variable is objects the students could memorize. I need to control the place the experiment going to happen, the type of day, how many people, how long it will take, the temperature of the day and, the age and gender of student. These controls will help me if it was fair and what happened all that day. Abstract The problem that is going to be solved is which fun activity would help middle school students memorize in an active and none active way. According to the hypothesis it briefly says that the exercise group was going to memorize the most. The way this project is going to be solved is to have an experiment with an active and none active sections. This way the experiment will prove which group does the best. So middle school students could memorize better on test or quizzes to actually learn something. When focusing deep in the research paper there are things that are learned of the human brain. The human brain has main parts of the memorization function like the cerebral cortex well known as the gray matter. It stores memories of events and facts which could be important during school. Another function is the cerebellum it also stores memories, but in a different way it stores body parts movements. Lastly the hippocampus stores hours, days, and years. The results will have a difference because their both different feelings. The exercise group had done the best at the result of the graph. The difference for both groups is exercise the board game groups is 9.9. The exercise group did the best because the students memorized more than the board game group. The group that started to memorize the less is the board game because the least they did was a total of 3 items. The exercise group started at a total of 7 items. Procedure 1. First set up a long straight trail 30 yards apart. 2. Then have the exercise group ready to run and the board games to play have a stop watch to 5 minutes. 3. Then the exercise group first goes threw the first activity, the hula hoop, they have to hula hoop 10 times. 4. Next they run to the tennis rackets and bounce the tennis ball 10 times. 5. Then they run to the jump ropes and jump 10 times. 6. Next they run and jump across till they count to 10. 7. Then they run to another activity and bounce the basketball around 10 circles. 8. Then they run to do 10 jumping jacks. 9. Next they jump over a ball back and forth. 10. During the whole time the exercise group is doing the activity they will be busy playing board games and cards. 11. When 5 minutes is up both groups go to the memorizing table. 12. They keep on going again till the 5 minutes is up. 13. They have 1 minute to memorize as much things in the table. 14. Then you cover it with a large rag. 15. Then both groups has 3 minute to record things the memorized.  Make sure that both groups are separated so nobody would cheat. 16. Then you collected the papers and they could leave. List of Materials • A large field with grass 180 ft. length wise  • 10 long jump ropes • 10 orange basketballs • 10 soccer balls size 4-5 • 10 tennis balls • 10 paddles • a  small table • 10 round hula hoops • 20 pieces of paper or less • 20 pencils (golf) • 15 cones  • Trouble (game board) • 4-in a row • Cards (diamonds, hearts, spades, clubs) • Boggle (game) • Phase 10 dice (dice game) • uno cards • flash card • flat clock • plastic banana • bookmark • plastic screw driver • fake leaf • dog collar • green wrist band • pink eye liner • stuff dog • monopoly red house • band aide • orange crayon • fake 5 dollar bill • plastic toy soldier • black plastic whistle • stop watch with 0.1 sec accuracy • measuring tape more than 6 feet • tape Daily Log (Day) Date- Daily routines (Tuesday) 11/6/06 – Wrote statement of the problem and hypothesis. Then posted question on the database of Moodle. (Wednesday) 11/7/06 – Looked for key terms wrote down criteria of a procedure. Posted the hypothesis and statement of the problem into Moodle. (Thursday) 11/8/06 – Wrote procedure checked the statement and hypothesis of the problem in Moodle. Designed a procedure for the experiment into notebooks. (Friday) 11/9/06 – Typed materials list into Moodle. Completed Phase 2 (Monday) 11/13/06 - Phase 3 drew data tables to explain to take notes during the experiment. (Tuesday) 11/14/06 - Get all materials at home. Ask Mr. Alfstad for borrow of materials. (Wednesday) 11/15/06 – Test people up at the school’s field. (Thursday) 11/16/06 – Test people (Friday) 11/17/06 - Test people (2 weeks) 11/18/06 – 11/26/06 – Worked on the model (Tuesday) 11/27/06 – Test people (Wednesday) 11/28/06 - Test people for the last time. (Thursday) 11/30/06 – Did a excel graph and sorted information. (Friday) 12/1/06 – Continued graph (Monday) 12/4/06 – Started on Summary statement (Tuesday) 12/5/06 - Finished graph and summary statement, posted both on Moodle. (Wednesday) 12/6/06 – Finished conclusion (Thursday) 12/7/06 – Finished abstract (Friday) 12/10/06 – Edited abstract did cover page gave teacher informed consents to teacher to sign, got binder (Monday) 12/11/06 – Gave the rest informed consents forms to teachers, edited question (Tuesday) 12/12/06 – Continued editing question finished daily log. (Wednesday) 12/13/06 – Sorted informed consents and labeled daily log. Got pictures (Thursday) 12/14/06 – Print binder template (Friday) 12/15/06 – Print the rest and turn in binder (Tuesday) 1/2/07 – Write down the completion of finishing. (Wednesday) 1/3/07 – Peer edit another’s binder bring half of the sheets that need to be typed. (Thursday) 1/4/07 – Edit pages find the length of the field. Get Science Fair broad. (Friday) 1/5/07 – Print out binder template. Work on Mock Up broad. (Saturday) 1/6/07 – Work on binder, print out unfinished work. Work on Mock up broad. (Sunday) 1/7/07 – Work on binder and Mock up broad. Buy letters. (Monday) 1/8/07 – Let teacher edit binder. Add letters into header board. Work on model. (Tuesday) 1/9/07 – Edit the data table page. Start on the header board. (Wednesday) 1/10/07- Design title cards, work on board. (Thursday) 1/11/07 – Work on Display board, print the papers for board. Glue every thing down. (Friday) 1/12/07 – Display boards and binders due, glue any extras. (Last week) 1/16/07 – 1/17/07 - Worked on presentations to present to students and teachers. Conclusion According in my project the problem is which activity, exercising or board game help students memorize better? This experiment is trying to find out which activity is more helpful to remember better? The long straight course had 7 sport activities where the students needed to follow over again until 5 minutes are up. The board game group had to play games and cards for 5 minutes. Then they had 1 minute to memorize a total of 15 items. Then they had a total 3 minutes to record what they remembered. The independent variable is exercise and board games. The dependent variable is things that they could remember.             The answer of the question is that the exercise group had the most things that they had remembered. The exercise group started to memorize at a total of 7 items and the board games group had started to memorize the total of 3 items. The most things that the exercise group could memorize were 14 items and the total of the board game group were 13 items. The average of the exercise group is 26.4 and the board game group average was 16.5. The exercise group had a larger total. The difference was 9.9. The data was correct with my hypothesis. The hypothesis briefly said that the exercise group was going to have the most students that could memorize the most. While my guess was correct because the exercise group will have their heart pumping and their blood flowing around, intend the board game group is sitting down resting.             The main opinions is that while doing this project you will need to have a helper to help you set up the course cause the perfection of the course leads to a correct result. Having other materials that include this same sport activity could also have different results. Make sure that all volunteers do what there suppose to do so any information comes in a different result. Some unresolved questions is how will the information be with a smaller group at a time so maybe things will get  a different result. In future tests maybe have fewer activities that take longer and longer course. The recommendation is have smaller groups and longer course and always bring everything with you at the same time cause you do not want to run up and down. And never give up during this project because it could be a winner.              *Work* pays off This is the human brain