20% Project

The 20% passion project seems very interesting and stress relieving.  I like that we get to take 1 day of the week just to do creative experiments with making things and research a topic that we actually care about.

First, my 20% project is not only mine.  Usha (usharogate.blogspot.com) and Nandhini (nandhinirogate.blogspot.com) are in my group.  Anyway, we are going to perform some tests about short term and long term memory, which include visual and oral tests, on the students in our class (if they approve), our younger siblings and their friends, and some adults.  Then, we are going to categorize those tests into gender and age group.  We will then compare those tests to see which gender in each age group is better at what types of tests and then see overall who did the best (The one person who did the best, which gender did the best, and which age group did the best).  We chose this idea because it will tell me a little bit about the psychology of the human brain compared to other's and because we like competition.

We don't really need any tangible materials for this project.  We just have to come up with tests to give to people. However, we might use a camera to take pictures of the tests after they have been completed to show them and not just explain, but use them as evidence.

We will probably be faced with some challenges along the way, but we will not quit if we do.  One anticipated road block is that we might not be able to think of good tests for the experiment.  If we can't think of good ideas, we can go on other websites and try to find tests, then we can base our tests of off them or use a couple of those tests.  Also, we would need an equal amount of people for each category, so we might not have enough people or might have more people in one category than another.  If we run out of people in the school, we could ask neighbors, friends, and families to participate in this experiment.  There would probably be more setbacks along the way, however, something good always comes out of everything.

I don't really know anybody that I can consult for this project, but we can probably get a lot of help on the internet and some books (I mean who uses non-fiction books anymore, but it is possible for them to help).

This 20% project is really exciting and I can't wait to see the end result of our experiment!