Science Fair Project Science fair project Michael Becker, Dakotah Miller| Mrs. Mcnees, Carleen| Syracuse jh. high

Statement of the Problem Do your videogame scores get better or worse with less and less of sleep?

Research Summarize your research here in three to five significant facts: People seem to do worse with lack of sleep and exhaustion People do better with the proper amount or more of sleep. We could do more tests and experiments on other games and versions to test our hypothesis and see if we get the same results We’ve done worse on homework and test without sleep before. People improve and get better with experience. Citations- none

Hypothesis If we stay up late playing video games, then our scores will improve, stay the same, and then drop because we improve from experience but then our scores drop from the lack of sleep.

Procedure: Materials Videogames Videogame console and controllers Paper and pencil to record scores Ourselves

Procedure: Steps Obtain the materials. Play the videogame. Record Scores. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until to exhausted to continue or parents get annoyed by how late you are staying up.

Variables Constants: The people playing the videogames Controlled variables: Regular score during the day which are 12 Independent (manipulated) variable: Time and lack of sleep Dependent (measured) variable: The video game scores

Data/Observations

Data/observations As shown by our graph in the previous slide, our scores in the beginning weren’t very good. In fact they were dropping. Then they improved a lot. After which they dropped a little, stayed the same, then rose and stayed high.

Conclusion When you have enough sleep you improve on things and you also improve with increased experience. We discovered that with the lack of sleep, you improve with the experience, but you don’t improve as much as you normally would if you had enough sleep because of the exhaustion making it hard to be alert and focused. Do your videogame scores increase or worsen with lack of sleep? A: From our results, are hypothesis was somewhat supported. With the lack of sleep, we decreased on our scores, then increased, stayed the same, but then continued to increase. So, we kept improving because of the experience, but not as fast because of the lack of sleep which prevented us from being focused and alert.