Testable Questions
We have spent the past few weeks working on designing a valid experiment. It is extremely important to critically evaluate the procedure to ensure that results are measurable and address the hypothesis directly. Repeating investigations improves the results of experiments!
I want for you guys to think about some ways that we can test the factors that affect heart rate. What are things that we do in our every day life that we could experiment on?
Well in order to study heart rate and things that may cause heart rate problems, I like the energy drinks theory or facts because many people of our school drink them in the morning and I would like to know the side effects. I also think we should try to test Starbucks the one they sell in stores, the botlted one. I see many students in the morning also drinking that. And why just students? why dont we test some teachers to? What do you think? That way we have two perspectives, students and adults and I am sure they affect differently.
Mr. Buse
We could test out if the energy drinks actually help us increase our energy or if they simply harm our bodies. We could test out if they actually help students stay alert in class by having one student drink one before school abd another that doesn't. Or we could ask a group of student in a P.E. class to split into 2 groups and one could recieve an 8 oz. cup of orange juice and the other an 8 oz. cup of an energy drink to see which one works or actually helps us to keep moving. These are some ideas but Im sure there are lots more! Thanks for asking! =)
Mr. Buse I like the energy drink experiment best of all, but I also think we can test things such as coffee and also different kinds of pills that could also speed up heartbeat rate. Maybe we could also experiment different kinds of sodas or maybe candy (other things that have a lot of sugar in them).
I think that first of all we should start some research about all the factors that affect our heart and what could damage it, also I don't know if its possible but we should get a smoker and test his heart to see how tobacco damaged his heart in comparison with a non smoker, and of course the energy drink idea was very good
Everyday activities that most students do that may cause a change in heart rate consist of the food they eat and the activities they do. We should test the effect of the heart when one drinks an energy drink vs. water, or the effects of different food products such as chips vs. energy bars. Another interesting experiment would be to test the heart rate of people when listening to music and how different genres of music might effect a person's heart rate. The obvious test would be to test a person's heart rate when under exercise against someone who is not doing exercise.
I think that one of the things we could test is the effect of having 1st, 3rd, or 5th period PE and then having to go to a classroom after having done the activities one has done. Im talking about a quick change from running/walking around, to havin to sit down in a classroom, and take notes read, or do work.
-Martin Zazueta
I think we should test how heart rate would be when your scared. Of course it would increase it but what if something was SO scary that it can raise a person's heart rate to the point were they could black out or cant breath or get dizzy, or even die?? :] especially since it's almost halloween...
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certain foods, like candy, wouldnt that effect heart rate because it makes people hyper..
i think we should test how different beverages affect heart rate such as gatorade, propel, water, G2, and so on. or we could test how different snack affect heart rate such as hot cheetos, fruit snacks, crackers, and so on.
- Brianna Hernandez
First of all are we just testing on students or can we also test on adults?
I, personally, would like to test on both. It provides more data and more insight on how ages can also be a factor on what and what doesn’t affect your heart rate. However that will make the experiment much more complicated and would require more time. In addition to that we would also have to control more factors. So we would have to take that into consideration.
I originally liked the “energy drink idea” but I think we should broaden the “drinks”. Instead of just energy drinks we could test coffee and juices and milk. We could separate the females from the males. Then we could break those up and form mixed groups of males and females and give those small groups the same drink. We would follow a type of “prescription” method; tell them to drink them at a certain time. We tell them how much to drink and what they should do after drinking them.