X Perience Science

Issue #8
Mr. Johnston’s G Block Science Saigon South International School

If you punch a board as hard as you can,

and it breaks, does it hurt more than not
breaking it?
Hypothesis: I
think it doesn't
hurt more than
breaking it.
Procedure: Get a
wooden board
and punch as
hard as you can.
Sample Size: 5
people

Conclusion: My hypothesis was supported by the data because not breaking the wood board hurt more than
breaking the wooden board. I thought I needed to use more wooden board, but I couldn't get more board be-
cause taekwondo coach said we couldn't get more than ten.

Inside this
issue: Follow up questions:

Board Breaking by 1 1. Does the time between the two hits affect how much it hurts?
Chee Woo 2. Does how thick the board matters?
Font Styles by Bruce 2 3. Why did it hurt more not breaking than breaking the wooden board?

Balloons Fun by Vy 3 Ho Sung’s feedback didn’t help my experiment because I couldn't get more than ten boards (1person 2 boards).

Ice Cubes Melting 4 Mom: Break: Hurts Chee Woo: Break: Doesn’t hurt
by Tommy

Not break: Hurts Not break: Hurts

Dad: Break: Not hurts My friend: Break: Doesn’t hurt

Not break: Hurts Not break: Hurts

Brother: Break: Doesn’t hurt

Not break: Doesn’t hurt

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What type of font catches the eye the most?

By: Bruce

Question: What looks at it first. Out

they saw first. I will
PENGUIN
type of letter of 20 people 8 peo-
record the data and Data Table

planets catches the eye the ple chose bold up-

PYTHONS
thunder
Some words and fonts I
used for the experiment.
They are all 7 letter long.
see which font peo- Bold Upper
most? ple saw first. per case 6 people Case
Conclusion: My hy-
chose bold lower
*8 People
Hypothesis: I think pothesis was sup- case, 4 people
Bold Lower
capital letter ported by the data
chose normal upper
catches their eye because the upper
case, and 2 people Case
the most because chose lower case
case normal and 6 people
it's big. bold caught peo-
cursive Normal
ples' eye the most. Upper Case
Procedure: I will Na Young's feed-
Follow-Up Question:
type up 4 different back helped me a Will the result be 4 people
fonts and words, little because the
different if I put col- Lower Case
upper case cursive, rest was very con- ors in? Cursive
lower case cursive, fusing. She said Will the result be
2 people
normal upper case, that I should have different if I stand
normal lower case. more fonts and so I further?
I will ask 20 people, did. She also said How will this com-
5 kids with glasses, something that I pare if I used just
5 kids without did not understand
people with
glasses, 5 adult about testing only
glasses?
with glasses, and 5 girls or boys. But i
adults without tested both girls
glasses. I will stand and boys. I think
1m away from that most eyes
them and hold up wander around the
the paper for about paper and when it
5 seconds and ask sees something big
them which word it immediately
Can a balloon blow if you tie it on the top of the water bottle?
By Vy

Hypothesis: I think that the balloon will blow

because the air inside will have to have air so
it try to make the balloon explode than get
the air in side the water bottle.

Procedure: First, I empty the water bottle first.

Second, tied the balloon and the hole of the
water bottle. Than, tied it again with a rubber
bang.

Experiment: Since I was absent, I didn't know

who give feed back to me. While the
experiment I found that the experiment was
hard when i choose which balloon to choose
for my experiment because there are different
balloon in the market. So when i do the
experiment, I tried all kind of balloon. Thin,
big, small, thick, long and short balloon but
when I
write my final hypothesis, I write as one
answered.

Follow up question:
1. Will my hypothesis change if I put water in
the water bottle?
2. will my hypothesis change if I didn't put
water in it?
3. What is the real reason for the balloon to
blow?
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Could you preserve a melting ice-cube without using the

fridge? By Tommy
Hypothesis: I think Maybe I should do cube for each ex-
the best way more than 3 ice periment?

would be to drop cubes but it would

take to long so I
the ice-cube in a
shrunk it down to
cup full of cold
that size.
water.

Sample Size: 3 Follow up

Ice-cubes Question:
1 Does the
Conclusion: My
surface
hypothesis was
which the
supported by the
ice cube is
data because the
on affect
ice cube in the
the melting Ice in water : 2min 22 sec
cold water did sur-
time?
vived the longest. Ice under pyramid : 1min 45sec
2 Does
Feed back did
adding Ice with fan : 1min 40sec
help me on this
more water
project because it
helps the
told me to meas-
ice cube
ure the temp of
stay frozen
the room first so I
longer?
turned on the AC
3 Should I
to have a stable
put 2 ice
environment.
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