Thursday, 31 May 2012

How to get the results for "Does music help you memorize"


Equipment needed:

1.Headphones
2. Ipod
3. Modern music
4. Classical music
5. Numbers printed on cardboard in a line 
6. Paper with box to write the numbers in, persons name, age, sex and a box to tick for permission to tell results to other people. 
7. Stop watch 

Instructions...

1. I am going to give a person doing the experiment 2 types of music to listen to (classical and modern) while they are having numbers shown in front of them.
2. Person puts on headphones 
3. I (Louis) will press button on iPod to start the music
4. I will lay down a set list of 25 numbers mounted on cardboard in front of them
5. First type of music to test them on will be Classical music, then modern music, then no music
6. I will start stopwatch 
7. I will wait for 10 seconds 
8. After ten seconds I will take away the numbers and continue to play the music while they write down as many numbers in order as they can remember on the piece of 
paper provided
10. I will see how well the person did by giving 3 points for what they did best, 2 points for what the did second best and 1 point on what they did worst.
11. Then they will fully full out the sheet given to them and will give the sheet to me when done. Then move on to the next person!
12. At the end of the experiment I will add the scores together and find out my results!

Planning my fair test...


Planning my fair test...

To ensure I conduct a fair test I am going to keep these things the same:

1. Same number sequence for each type of music no music will stay the same
2. The timing will stay the same 
4. The music will stay the same
5. The working sheet will stay the same 
6. The three categories will stay the same

The one factor that I am going to change is the person taking the experiment.

Science Questions


1. Why do we listen to music? = Music means so much to so many people. For some it is a way to escape from reality and raise someone’s expectation’s in life, for some people music comes to them from the heart, some people listen to music because it’s something meaningful to them, for some it brings flashbacks of there life. Which could help them memorize?

2. Why are there differences with modern and classical music? =  The reason why there are differences with modern and classical music is because they are all created in very different time periods. For instance 100’s and 100’s of years ago when people played and made music none of it used electricity, which meant no electric guitars, electric keyboards or synth. But these days there is all of that. Music fits around the changes of humanity.

3. How does memory happen \ how do we use our brain to memorize? = When you hear, see, touch and taste something it comes in from the outside world and into your brain.  Some of the things are so unimportant they only manage to stay in your short-term memory system for up to 5 seconds! Some things that are important but only need to be remembered for a short time get stored into your short-term memory. But when it comes to things that are really important and need to be remembered for a very long period of time, end up being sorted into your long-term memory part of your brain and this is when it gets pretty amazing everything you forget you will never EVER end up fully forgetting. For instance a friend one time hung out with another friend. Them hanging out wasn’t so important so they forgot about it. But then someone filmed it and they showed it to the two friends who hung out that time. There is no way they will ever forget it. It will reboot the scene of them hanging back into there brain.
The hippocampus has the big job of transferring information between short-term and long-term memory.



4.How does the brain work? = The brain is made up of tiny brain cells called neurons. Everyone has up to 100 billion of them! All neurons have a cell body called a Nucleus Dendrites that look like little fingers. They fire out electrical charges. For instance, when you first learned to walk the neurons try to connect and eventually connect and then never EVER unconnect. That’s why you never ever forget to walk!  

5. Who invented numbers? = Numbers or symbols used for counting have existed since man learned to count! Archeologists and historians estimate that numbers were first used around 32,000 years ago. They also say that there is no actual person that invented numbers but they know that numbers first originated from the by the ancient Mayans, Egyptians, Arabs and Greeks.

6. When discovered the brain? = Back in BC when the first human got smashed in the head with a large blunt object!

7. What is the memory capacity of the human brain? =  The brain’s exact storage capacity for memories is difficult to calculate. Because First, we do not know how to measure the size of a memory. Second, certain memories involve more details and thus take up more space; other memories are forgotten and thus free up space. Additionally, some information is just not worth remembering in the first place.
    
8. What are the differences between modern and classical music? = The biggest difference is variety! At the beginning of last century is when everything took off! Like: Auto tune, synth, radio, more experimental music, bigger variety 
of instruments and genres.

9. When does the brain start to loose memory? = The brain begins to lose sharpness of memory and powers of reasoning and understanding not from 60 as previously thought, but from as early as 45, scientists say.

10. Where in the brain are your memories stored? =  Scientists assume that our memories are stored somewhere inside our cranium. The common belief is that they are stored in our brain cells, which can be stimulated and retrieved.


                                                                                                                            

MY HYPOTHESIS





My hypothesis is that the people doing the experiment, which is, “does music help you memorize” will do the best without music because it will be a lot less distracting which will make it easier. In my opinion modern music will do the worst, because it is the most distracting, loud and chaotic.

Why I am doing my science project




The reason why I am doing my science project on “Does music help you memorize” is because during my original project “Does music improve your fitness level” I was still deeply interested in music and memory so I decided to change it to “Does music help you memorize.” This is because it sounds a lot more interesting and fun in my opinion.

Monday, 28 May 2012

Young Leaders day 2012 photos




Young Leaders Day 2012


On the 28th of May some year 7 and 8’s from Muritai school went into the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington for the Young Leaders Days 2012. Young Leaders day was an amazing experience, it had 5 people telling us amazing things and stories on how to find that quality and potential in your life and more! It was funny, amazing, shocking and sad; they really got the messages that the speakers were telling us through quite cleverly! 
Speaker 1 Nick Tuitase - “Good leaders know how to spark potential.”
Speaker 2 Jamie Fitzgerald - “ Never let performance get in the way of safety.”
Speaker 3 Cassandra Treadwell - “Believe in yourself and others will too!”
Speaker 4 Cam Calkoen - “Dream big and achieve more!”
Speaker 5 Dave Atkinson - “Stick up for whats right, choose good friends, live for others.”
In my opinion Dave Atkinson was the best, because he was very funny and truly soulful with what he was telling us. He told us some amazing stuff about choosing the right things with other stuff as well like peer pressure. In addition he was so funny everyone kept saying that he should be a comedian! I loved his quote which was “Stick up for whats right, choose good friends, live for others.”
To be a good leader you need a lot of things but I think especially the fact that you need to believe in yourself! Because you can’t really do anything truly amazing, great, fascinating etc.without faith! 
If I knew that I couldn’t fail with whatever I did I would become the best musician I could be, I know I'm already on that road but It’s something that I am desperately wanting my future to become because without it I’m not really the person that I am! Music is my natural talent! 

By Louis Sutherland