Xperience Science

SSIS Ho Chi Minh City

Mr. Johnston’s Grade 6 Science Class
G Block
Issue #2 January 19th, 2010

Inside this issue:

Does hip hop music make a plant
Does music affect
plants? By Liz
1 grow? By: Liz Le
Conclusion: My My hypothesis
Do Dogs enjoy music?
By Ronald
2
experiment is was supported by plant grow?
"Does hip hop my data. My
Korean noodles and 3 music make plant feedback Na 3.) How can music
spice. By Julia
grow?". First I pick Young said that I help the plant
4 the slowest plant should use differ- grow?
How do fish react to
the cold? By Bruce
that grow in my ent kinds of hip
Songs and concentra- 5 garden to make hop music. I
tion. By Cam
as a experiment. I should have use 2
Water physics. By Vy 5
put on the song plants so I can
"low" to see if my have one that lis-
plant would grow. ten to music and
I water my plant one doesn’t
really little. I test Follow up ques-
my plant for a tion:
couple of days 1.) Why does hip
like 4 or 5. Each hop music make
day when I check plant grow faster?
my plant I saw 2.) Does only hip
that it grow 1cm, hop music make
I was surprised.
My hypothesis is
that I think that
hip hop music
make plant grow.
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Do Dogs enjoy music? By Ronald

Conclusion: My experi- not interesting about
ment was about "Do music. So I know that
dogs enjoy music?" I my dog didn't enjoy
did this experiment music and that mean
with my dog name my hypothesis
"Lucky" and we did this was supported.
experiment for 2 days
(20 min/each day). I'm
using 4 kind of music:
rock, hip hop, classical, -Follow up Ques-
jazz. My hypothesis is tions:
supported by the data
because my dog didn't
1) Do any others
enjoy any kind of mu-
animals enjoy mu-
sic. When I start my
sic?
experiment the first
day, my dog didn't sit
still and he just walk 2) Why does my dogs
away because Lucky didn't enjoy music?
feel boring and he did-
“Ruff” n't care about the music.
The second day, I con-
tinue my experiment 3) Are there any others
and it was the same as kind of dogs that can
the first day, Lucky just enjoy music?
walk away again, he's
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What is the difference between putting the

spice first and
Later when we cook Korean

Conclusion: The salt might have 3. Does noodle

feedback I got back disturbed the wa- have each different
from Ramiel said ter boiling and spices, and did that
that I should made the high cause the differ-
enlarge my sample temperature. ence in tempera-
size. I thought it When I ate them, ture?
was a good opin- the noodle that I
ion, so I enlarged put the spice first
my sample size to had the chewy
five. My hypothesis taste then the
was supported. other one.
When I took the
temperature after Follow up Ques-
about three minute, tions:
the temperature 1. If I changed the
from the pot that time limit of cook-
Ramen Noodles
put the spice first ing the noodle, Will
rock. –Mr. J got a high tempera- it affect the taste or
ture, and in the the temperature?
other pot the tem- 2. Will changing the
perature was much order of tasting the
lower. I think this is noodle affect the
because of the salt taste?
in the spice. The
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How do fish react to cold? By Bruce

Conclusion: My ex- onds is about 0.45 told me to get more
periment was "How seconds) And of fish rather than 2
do fish (both salt wa- course, I tested them fresh and salt water
ter and fresh water) when they were hun- fish. But I was afraid
react when you put gry. that putting ice in
ice in?". My hypothe- would kill the fish
sis was not sup- I THINK that they and I couldn't take
ported because at swam faster in cold that risk due to only
first I thought fish water because since having a few fish( but
(both kinds) would its cold, they have to none of the fish
move slower in cold swim fast to heat died).
water than the aver- their bodies and get
age in their own warm. When I
compatible water. thought up my hy- Follow Up Questions:
salt water or fresh pothesis I thought
How would fish react
water and. Put food they'd swim slower
in hot water?
in and timed them because they'd be
(the average was affected by the cold
Would the results be
about 0.8 seconds). and be kind of frozen
different with more
After putting ice in and can't react as
ice?
the bowl, I saw that fast. But that was to-
my hypothesis was tally wrong.
How would this com-
completely wrong,
pare to fish that are
because the moment Well, the student
full?
I put ice in, the fish feedback I got from
immediately raced to Williams didn't help
the food.(The aver- me much because he
age number of sec-

Data Collected

Fresh Water Fish#1

Fresh Water Fish#2
Salt Water Fish#1
Salt Water Fish#2
Before Ice: 0.25 Sec
0.34 Sec
0.44 Sec 0.57
Sec
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Which song helps you concentrate more?

By: Cam Liao
People and plays hard. Daniel
Apologize Kim's feedback really
Battlefield I helped me by telling me I
Gotta Feeling should add more people.
Mom 1 2 3 I let them listen for 1 min-
Dad 1 2 3 ute.
Thao 1 3 2
Jeon 1 2 3 My hypothesis did sup-
ported my data because
Minh 1 2 3 apologize is more light mu-
Se Yun 1 3 2 sic.
David 1 3 2 Follow up question:
1. Doesn't volume level
Conclusion: Apologize was affect the music too?
1st because its plays more 2. Will how long effect
light and battlefield was 3rd concentration?
and I gotta feeling is third 3. Why is soft music more
because it’s more not soft concentrating?

Why didn’t the water drop when I put the cup up side down
cover by a small piece of paper? By Vy

Conclusion: My hy-
pothesis help me with
my experiment because
the water did absorb the
oxygen when the oxy-
gen go in the so that the
paper didn't drop. But
my the water that I get
is too little so I get an-
other 1 L. When I go
and asked my friend
and teacher, some peo-
ple said they don't
know and some say that
the water absorb the 7 people said they don’t
paper. The feedback know
from Ben did help me
to do my experiment. 13 people said the
water absorb the pa-
Follow up question: per.
-why didn't the water
drop out ?
-Is it because I put to
much water?
-Should it be a plastic
cup or a metal cup?
I ask 20 people