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
1. Obtain the materials.
2. Play the videogame.
3. Record Scores.
4. 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
12
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10
8
6
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4
2
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
number of round played
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
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.