Caitlyn's+Plan

﻿ 1. Choosing A Project:

TOPICS THAT INTEREST ME: CURRICULUM CONNECTION: Does different music affect how far people can kick soccer balls? - biology, reactions, muscles..

MY TESTABLE QUESTION: Does different music affect how far people can kick soccer balls, and if so, which type of music affects it the most?

INDEPENDENT VARIABLE: Different types of music (that's the ID) and different people, (those are not ID, those are the different trials (each person can be called Subject, like Subject 1, Subject 2, ) like Sarah, Rebekah, Jason, Adam, and music like classical, pop, rock, country, and no music....

DEPENDENT VARIABLE: How far the soccer ball is kicked. Can you keep all other variables constant, and ensure that every kick is exactly the same at the others, so that only the music is different. This might be hard to keep valid. . . . The soccer ball needs to be kicked in as straight a line as possible. If it's curvy and goes way off to the side, don't use that data because it could be an outlier. There can be three trials for every song. For each kick, there kicker can have a 5 feet running start, o r instead I could have them do a standing kick. If we do the 5 feet running start, there will be a mark to put the ball each time and a mark to start running from so the kickers don't have different amount of running space or different kick. The ball must at least be kicked straight on so it's not all messed up.

2. Investigate the Information: [|Music Effects] ﻿[|More Music Effects]

NOTES/FACTS: Types of Music: ---POSSIBLE songs: · Classical--- Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major · Hip hop-Black and Yellow · Rap--Not Afraid · Pop--Jar of Hearts · Rock-Chop Suey · Country-Our Song - Jazz--Star Dust - LullabyTwinkle Twinkle Little Star

According to research, slow music can slow down the heartbeat, lower the breathing rate, and lower blood pressure. Fast music can speed up the heartbeat, raise the breathing rate, and raise blood pressure. In music, changing or repeating the theme is also a big factor. If something is repeated more than once, the brain becomes displeasing and angry or enter a state of sub-consciousness. Dr. Ballam says that the human mind shuts down after three or four repetitions of one of the elements used in music, like rhythm, harmony, melody.......When people are trying to insert certain ethics or messages in their music, they use repetition. Dr. John Diamond discovered that all the muscles in the entire body go weak when listening to hard rock music, like the kind Led Zepplin, Alice Cooper, Queen, the Doors, Janis Joplin, Bachman - Turner Overdrive, and The Band play. This comes from the brain listening to a "stopped anapestic beat", which he also found found caused a "switching" of the brain, where the body is alarmed and acts with lessened work performance as the "actual symmetry between both of the cerebral hemispheres is destroyed ". Rock music tends to have harmful, irregular beats and shrill frequencies. Music can cause physical reactions in the body. The rhythm is important in the physical reaction. Exciting music leads to 'increased arousal'. Loud, fast-paced music tends to increase muscular tension, heart rate, blood pressure, respiration rates, motor responses, and skin temperatures

NOW THAT I'VE DONE SOME RESEARCH, I PREDICT THE ANSWER TO MY QUESTION WILL BE: Certain kinds of music can cause physical reactions in your body. I predict that rock music will increase the soccer kick the most since it's so loud and exciting and fast-paced. and classical music will probably make it go a little shorter than the average kicked without music since it's calming. Hip hop music, at least the song 'Black and Yellow' that I'll be using, seems kind of lazy and the opposite of exciting, so the kick with that will probably not go as far either. I predict the jazz s ong, rap song, and the country music will make the kick go a little farther, too, because the songs are more intense than the hip hop song and the classical song.

3. Plan A Procedure: Possible procedure: Make a mark in the grass where the kicker must start their kick. Mark a different spot in the grass, exactly 2 meters away, where the soccer ball must be placed for each kick. Give the person the iPod, put on the song they will be listening to for that song, turn it up the same amount. Somewhere between one and two minutes into the song, I will signal to the kicker to kick the soccer ball. Use measuring tape to measure how far the soccer ball went.

4. What I'll Need:

 I have these: I need to locate these: I have a soccer ball, the music, people, a meter stick, markers.....

5. Keeping Track - Proposed Data Sheet



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The data shows that. . . . Country and hip hop music made the test subjects kick the farthest. Lullaby and jazz music made the test subjects kick the shortest distance.

Therefore, I conclude that. . . . Because of the slow-paced music in the jazz song and lullaby, the test subjects were not able to be as ready for the soccer kick as they were with the fast-paced country and hip hop music. The slower songs may have slowed their heart rate and the faster songs may have sped it up, which then effected their kick.

But was my work valid? . . . Hopefully! Each kick was placed two meters from a line, where the test subjects had to stand behind for each kick. They always listened to the music for at least a minute, usually more.

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