By: Ian Thomas Wisekal and Roderick Evans
Tuesday, February 10, 1998
Introduction
One day we were brainstorming about what to do for our Science Fair project and suddenly Roderick had a brilliant idea - we could see if and how excessive TV watching messed up people’s minds! It was a rough notion, and would need improving, but eventually we worked it out. We would have three groups of people watching TV, playing video games, and reading books. Then, after the people completed those activities, we would have them take a test. The test would cover many subjects and topics that had been taught so far in the year. Roderick’s part in the test would find out how much TV children in our study watch per day and if they consider themselves obese or lazy.
Hypothesis:
We think that playing video games will reduce your score more than watching TV or reading.The reason that we think this way is because whenever we play video games we don’t really feel that smart afterwards
.Purpose
: This science project was made to see what happens to a group of children in sixth grade at our elementary school after they watch and play video games.Procedure of this study:
First, we came up with the idea. Then, we typed up the tests, which the students later took. Next, we graded the papers and let them go home.Materials used:
We used many materials for this project. They included: two computers, a laser printer, a color printer, glue, paper, staples, tape, a three-sided poster board, a photocopying/fax machine, paper, pencils, two TVs, a Sony Playstation, two books, and three telephones.Conclusion:
The results have proved our hypothesis to be correct.
People’s concentration was more negatively impacted when playing video games than watching TV or reading. We know this because we averaged the scores of all the tests, and the students who played video games achieved the lowest scores. The graph below shows the scores achieved by the six students and the average of scores for each category.
Test Results
|
After Television |
After Video Games |
After Book Reading |
|
65% |
30% |
90% |
|
85% |
65% |
100%……….. |
|
Averages 75% |
47% |
95% |
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