This week in Science we are wrapping up our Inquiry unit by writing instructions and a test. The test will be announced this week in class and through the REMIND app. Not sure what that is?? No problem, a copy of the syllabus with the remind info should be glued to page TWO of your student's notebook.
In 8th grade we reviewed the expectations for the Procedural Text Assignment (due 9/14, Late assignments will NOT be accepted), here is the page we reviewed in class:
Tammy Hutchings
9/14/2018
Science 1
Does eating spicy foods help people to sleep better at night?
Hypothesis:
If someone increases the amount of spicy foods they eat before bed, then they will have worse sleep at night.
Independent Variable:
Amount of spicy food
Dependent Variable:
Sleep patterns
Controlled Variables:
Same environment (bed, pillow, etc), similar age range of volunteers, same type of spicy foods, same conditions leading up to bed time (all have normal days, etc); all volunteers have the same opportunity for same amount of sleep (each being able to sleep for 8 hours).
Materials:
- 20 volunteers
- 280 Taco Bell Crunchy Tacos
- 70 packets Taco Bell Mild Sauce
- 70 packets Taco Bell Hot Sauce
- 70 packets Taco Bell FIRE sauce
Procedures:
- Split the volunteers into four groups: Control, Mild, Hot Tacos, FIRE Tacos
- 30 minutes before volunteer’s bedtime, each volunteer will eat 2 tacos, and then go to bed as normal.
- Control group will eat their tacos without any sauce.
- Mild group eat their tacos with 1 packet Taco Bell Mild sauce on each.
- Hot group eat their tacos with 1 packet Taco Bell Hot sauce on each.
- FIRE group eat their tacos with 1 packet Taco Bell Fire sauce on each.
- Have volunteers spend the required amount of time sleeping (8 hours).
- Volunteers will record their sleep patterns in the morning using a sleep journal.
- Repeat steps 2-4 for 7 days total.
- Gather the data and put into a chart for analysis.
- Analyze the results.
