SAIGON SOUTH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
Newsletter Date January
MR. JOHNSTON’S SCIENCE CLASS “G”BLOCK
X perience Science
Inside this issue:
Exploding mentose by 1
Tommy
Music and calming by 2
William
Car shape and speed by 3
Chozen
Noise and concentra- 4 drink I have tested. Be-
tion by Se Yun
Laughing and health by 5
Chee Woo
Music and happiness 6 and Sting fizz up only 0.5
by Sabrina
Special points of
interest:
• You know that mentos
makes a soda fizz, but why?
• What calms you?
• Why are lamborbinis so
fast?
• What helps you concen-
trate?
• Does laughing make you
healthy?
• Music and happiness
Which soda does “Mentose” candy fizz in
the most ? By Tommy
The inside story: I set up
a scale on the wall to
measure the gas level, I
put a big plate under to
stop it from spilling. I
take the first bottle
(Pepsi) and set it on the
plate carefully so I
could film it. I turn the
camera on and bite off a
bit on the side of the
candy (Mentos) because
it was to big to fit in-
side the bottle, I
dropped only one candy
because one of the feed-
back (Jenny’s feedback)
sagest I should. After the
fist candy was dropped
in it was half a second till
it shoot up for… 2in. I
did the same with the
other three. You can see
the conclusion above.
Fizz height information table
SODA #1
Coke
Height: 2 in.
Height: 1in.
11th
Hypothesis: Coke would
fizz the most
Conclusion: My hy-
pothesis wasn’t sup-
ported by the data be-
cause Pepsi is fizziest
cause when the
“mentos” got dropped
in, the gas level got up
to 2 in. But the Root beer #2 Does the ingredients
in the drink effects the
in. so yeah. The soda fizz gas level ?
because every tiny holes
#3 Does the gas inside
on the surface of the
the drink have to do any
candy create gas so that
thing with this ?
it fizz (from Myth Buster).
Follow up questions:
#1 Why didn’t Root
beer and Sting fizz as
high as Pepsi and coke ?
SODA #2 SODA #3
Pepsi Sting
Height: 0.5 in.
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What Type of Music Makes People Calm? By William

Conclusion: I question is
”What kind of music
make people calm”.
4 people like calm music
that make them calm,
and 2 people like rock
songs to make them
calm. My hypothesis did
support me because
more people like calm
music to make them
calm.
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“How can the shape of a car affect its speed?” By Chozen

Hypothesis: I think that the trian-
gle shape will make the car go
fastest. But while I was doing the
experiment, I decided to change
the hypothesis to I think that the
3rd shape would be the fastest
since it has an aerodynamic
shape.
Procedure: First, I bought one
black hot wheels car type Ferrari
250 GTO. And then I made shapes
for the car including the first, sec-
ond, third, fourth, and fifth shape
as you can see in the picture. I
made the shapes and then put a
wood ramp that is 8cm wide, 1 took to go down the ramp.
meter long, and put it 8 centime- Conclusion: My hypothesis was
ters above the ground. I put the not supported because when I
first shape and tape it to the toy said the triangular shape will be
car and made a line that is at the the fastest, there are many trian-
far end of the ramp to mark the gular shapes, I didn't write down
starting position. I placed the car what number is the shape.
on the line and when the stop-
watch started, I started timing.
Then, I put the second shape on
the car. Then I timed it. I do the
same with 5 shapes and the fastest
shape is the fourth shape because
according to the data table, it has
the lowest number of seconds that

Data Table

Shape #1: It took 2.87 seconds to go down the ramp.

go down the wood ramp.
Shape #5: It took 1.82 seconds to
Shape #2: It took 2.15 seconds to go down the ramp.
go down the ramp.

Shape #3: It took 2.39 seconds to

go down the ramp.

Shape #4: It took 1.54 seconds to

Can background noise levels affect how well
we concentrate? By Se Yun

For this experiment, I tested
the total of 10people. I
tested two groups of grade
level: 4th and 6th. After think-
ing about it and questioning
myself, I came out with a
very shocking-interesting
conclusion that it doesn’t
harm any of your concentra-
tion; instead, it makes it
much better! Because a lot of
people think that the back-
ground noise indeed affect
your level of concentration,
my hypothesis was that it
does.
I tested 3 groups of hip hop songs while the
people; grade 4, 6, and my solve they solve the parts
mom. First of all, I’ll tell you
about the procedure of 4th
grade.
Result for gr.4
Addition (1 min.) /Subtrac-
tion (1min.) /Multiplication
(30sec.):
Name Addition/ Without
Sound Addition / With Sound
Subtraction/ Without Sound
Subtraction/ With Sound “with sound.” I divided them
Multiplication/ Without into male and female. I
Sound Multiplication/ With graded them and here’s the
Sound result:
A(M.) 57sec. 44sec. 41sec. Grade
41sec. 24sec. 9sec. Name Addition/ Without
B(M.) 35sec. 36sec. 28sec. Sound Addition / With Sound
23sec. 9sec. 7sec. Subtraction/ Without Sound
C(M.) 33sec. 30sec. 22sec, Subtraction/ With Sound Mul-
20sec. 8sec. 6sec. tiplication/ Without Sound
I gave them each 1 min. per Multiplication/ With Sound
10 questions and 30 sec. for A(M.) 100% 90% 100% 100%
5min. questions. And I also 90% 100%
kept the questions same for B(M.) 90% 90% 100% 100%
both sides (with and without 100% 100%
sounds). And I played them C(M.) 100% 90% 100% 100%
100% 100%
Does laughing make you healthy? By Chee Woo
Meditation: 63 we are healthier. This experiment
Conclusion: My question was Running: 119 proves that it supported my hy-
"Does laughing make you Father: Normal: 63 pothesis. First, I thought when we
healthy?” The experiment sup- Laughing: 61 laugh, our heartbeat gets faster, but
ported my hypothesis, because in Meditation: 58 it got slower. Actually, I researched
my hypothesis, I wrote that I think Running: 109 a little bit after my experiment. Vin-
laughing will make you healthy cent asked me a question and I got
and it really did make us healthy. I the information from research. It
measured the heartbeat of people said if we laugh, our blood vessels
I used for the experiment, for 1 widened and blood pressure gets
minute. The person who gave me lower. If that happens, we become
feedback was Vincent. He asked relaxed. Vincent's question helped
me, how I think laughing helps our me why and how laughing helps our
body and why it helps our body. I body.
found this out when I finished my Follow up questions:
experiment. Anyway, I'll tell you 1. How do scientists really know that
how my experiment went first. Aunt: Normal: 66
we are healthy when our heartbeat
Before starting my experiment, I Laughing: 66
is slow?
was trying to do my experiment Meditation: 65
2. How can scientists prove that
using 2 people, but I thought I Running: 117
laughing make us healthy?
should increase my sample size, Brother: Normal: 78
3. What kind of illness
so I changed my sample size to 10 Laughing: 77
Meditation: 75
Running: 125
Cousin 1: Normal: 72
Laughing: 70
Meditation: 69
Running: 121
Cousin 2: Normal: 65
Laughing: 64
Meditation: 62
people. My : 73 mother, father, my Running: 97
older brother, aunt, three cousins Cousin 3: Normal: 76
and myself. It went like this: Laughing: 77
Grandfather: Normal: 64 Meditation: 74
Laughing: 63 Running: 123
Meditation: 60 Cheewoo: Normal: 73
Running: 133 Laughing: 69
Grandmother: Normal: 65 Meditation: 69
Laughing: 63
Meditation: 60
Science class in school, we
Running: 134
learned that when our heartbeats
Mother: Normal: 68
get lower,
Laughing: 67
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What kind of music makes people happy? By: Sabrina

Conclusion: I use 3 types of
music to do my experiment Follow up question:
(classic, pop, and rock). My 1. If I change the music of
conclusion is 13/20 people different types, will it effect
feel happy listening to pop the result?
music, 4/20 people feel 2.Do people feel happy
happy listening rock music, when they listen to the song
and 3/20 people feel happy they like?
listening to classic music. 3. Will the conclusion
My hypothesis was sup- change if I increase my sam-
ported by the data because ple size
most of the people said pop
music make them feel happy
and comfortable, and few Graphing Data
people have different con- Pop Music
clusion as others.
13/20
I get feedback from Alexia,
Classic Music
and she said that I can have
more types of music, but I 3/20
can’t find anymore types of Rock Music
music so I didn’t change it.
4/20
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