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Do right-handed people control their left hand better, or left-

handed people control their right hand better? By Annie

Hypothesis: I think left- average, right-handed prove the conclusion of my experiment.

handed people can control
their right hand better.
Procedure: I will ask 3
people who are left-
handed and 3 people who
are right-handed. I will
spread 52 cards on the bed
and they have to stack the
cards in order 2 times, one
by left hand and one by
right hand. I will time
them and see how long
they take to stack the
cards of each hand and
calculate the average.
Variable: Boys and girls
in 7th grade, because in
my opinion people who
are the same age has more
similar knowledge.
Sample Size: 4 boy and 4
girls, I choose 4 instead 5,
because one of the way to
make my experiment
more fair, is to choose the
same age of people. There
are only limited of left-
handed people in the same
age I could find, so my
maximum sample size
was 4 boys and 4 girls.
Conclusion: My hypothe-
sis wasn’t supported by
the data, because right-
handed people control
their left hand better. In
people picked up the
cards by their non- Follow up question:
dominate hand by the 1. If I tie their hand up, will it be easier or harder?
difference of about 0.6 2. Is it still going to be a fair experiment if I use people that
minutes less than the left have different age, since older people might have better con-
-handed persons’ non- trol for their hands by using through ages?
dominate hands.
Sources of error:
During the experiment, I
think every person has to
do the experiment on a
bed or the sofa, because
it’s easier to pick up the
cards. In my experiment,
everybody used the same
deck of card, so there
won’t be unfairness of
difficulty reading the
card. Also, all the people
that did my experiment
are about the same age,
so their knowledge or
control will be more
equal.
Use of feedback:
The feedback that the
student gave me was
kind of useful, Nicole
want me to increase my
sample size to 5 people
instead of 3 people. I
only raised my sample
size to 4 people. Since
there are limited left-
handed. It helped me to
have one more data, to

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DOES AN ICE CUBE MELT FASTER IN AIR OR WATER? By Ramiel
Procedure:
First, I will get ten ice
cubes with all the same
sizes and two drinking
Hypothesis: glasses with the same
I think in air. sizes also. Next, I'll put
one ice cube in each
glass then I will fill one
glass with tap water. I'll
cover both glasses then
observe which ice cube
will melt first. I'll repeat
the procedure five times.
Top:
Top The ice cubes
trying to melt. (not
covered yet )
Bottom:
Bottom Collecting
Data
Conclusion:
My hypothesis was
not supported by the data
Sample Size: because it showed that
I used ten ice cubes to the ice cubes in water
make since five for each melted faster than the ice
glass is enough to get an cubes in air. Most melted
answer and not too much after 3 min. It is shorter
to take too much time. compared to a half hour
average of the ice cubes
in air.
Use of feedback:
My feedback from my
peer, Chong, was to
make my hypothesis
more specific which has
nothing to do with the
real experiment so it
wasn’t really helpful.
Since he suggested mak-
ing my hypothesis spe-
cific, here it is: “I think
Results of the
experiment. ice will melt in air be-
cause I thought since
water is colder than air it
will melt slower in wa-
ter.”
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Variables:
To make sure the ex-
periment’s fair, I made
the size of ice cubes and
the volume of the glasses
constant throughout the
experiment. The manipu-
lated variable is the con-
tent of each glass. One
full of air. The other is
full of water since my
experiment is where they
melt faster, air or water.
Sources of error:
First of all, I made
sure the cups were the
same size. Both are 320
ml. Next, I filled the
other cup until it’s really
full. Not half or almost
full. Lastly, I watched
the ice cubes the whole
time, not stopping to do
something. I prevented
myself from doing any-
thing.
Follow up questions:
* Does ice melt faster in
hot air or in cold water?
* Does more water make
the ice melt faster?
* How much time does
water need to turn into
ice?
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DOES YOUR HEIGHT AFFECT YOUR SPEED IN RUNNING?BY HANNA

Hypothesis: I think that Sample size: 6 people, Conclusion: My Hypothesis

shorter people run faster 25 meters x2. I chose was I thought that the
because they are lighter this sample size because shorter you were the faster
on their feet if I have 6 people (3 peo- you could run and it turned
ple in each race) I would out to be wrong. When I got
get more accurate data. my friends to run they were
Variable: The variables in The distance in my ex- “Your height
the same physical level and doesn’t change
my experiment are hu- periment was 25 meters. different height. The order the speed that you
mans and the distance I chose that distance that they all came in is 1st run at. All that
we can run. matters is your
because everybody I was the middle height 2nd physical abilities ”
chose could run it with- was the tallest height and
out getting exhausted. 3rd was the shortest guy. So I
guess it really doesn’t matter
your height just your skill.

Sources of Error- chose to have the partici-

-Just a bit of skill level pants run only 25 meters.
difference= When I was I think that I could have
choosing the people that tried maybe having them
I wanted to participate in run about 50 meters or
my experiment I tried to 100 meters.
make it fair the level of When I did the testing it
fitness and their height. was at 2 different times
However I think that of the day so when they
there could have been
ran if was different temp.
some fitness level differ-
ences. Not any big gaps outside and that can defi-
though, just little gaps. nitely affect their running
- Not enough distance to speed.
run – In my experiment I

Peer feedback- When I your hypothesis is not more than just 3 people.
got feedback from the that good because I’m After all the experiment
other school I realized short and my friend is was great.
that I have to be careful short and my friend is
with the height and skill good at running but I’m Follow up Questions:
level because that could not.” After I got that - Would the result change
change thing dramati- feedback I did rethink if I change the distance?
cally. The student from my hypothesis and even - What would happen if I
the other school (Chang though I couldn’t change had used different people
Choi) said “I think your my hypothesis I did try for the experiment?
question is good, but the experiment with
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DOES LISTENING TO MUSIC HELP YOU

PERFORM BETTER? BY NICHOLAS

Question: Does listening to music help you perform better
before a Event? Conclusion: My Hy-
Hypothesis: For me I think this will help because it can pothesis was incorrect
calm or get a person fired up to play and get ac- because my helpers miss
tive .Because of that it will be successful and make people a lot of their shots and
play really well. the music didn’t help
anyone so it just de-
stroyed their shots.
Sources of error: I tried
to make this a fair ex-
periment in using a odd
number of people so it
could not tie and I let my
people choose their per-
sonal music and songs
they wanted to listen to
for this experiment and
one more way I made
this fair is I choose only
top 15 basketball players
to shoot the ball.
Peer Feedback: Mr. J
gave me good feed back
in this project and it
helped me a lot because I
did have a problem with
my question and that was
what if that day that per-
son was playing very
good so that is why I
choose top 15 players.
Sample size and vari-
ables: I choose 5 people
because then the test
can’t tie and it will all be
different. So for my mu-
sic I have to use a musi-
cal device and I choose
the I-pod because I have
one with me.
Follow up Question:
Should I have tried non
top 15 players?

Procedure: I will get five people to listen to one song be-

fore a big event and activity and let them not to listen to
music before another event and I will see how they per-
form then.

Variables: I-pod, 5 people.

Sample size: Need five students that will play in an event.

This is a picture of me shooting a three

pointer for my experiment. (This is a picture
of me where I shot a swish without music.)