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MyScience Group 5 - Mannat, Matize, Scott and Yousif!!!
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__**Heading:**__ Memory Mania

__**Hypothesis:**__ A memory experiment to find out which gender has better memory. We are going to find out if "boys have better memory than girls". To do this we are going to take a memory test on 4 year 4 boys and 4 year 4 girls. Cause boys will remember boys stuff better and girls will remember girls stuff better so we are going to have two tests, a boys test and a girls test!!!
 * Introduction**

__**Observation:**__ Have you ever heard your parents say ," You have better memory than your brother", or ,:"Your brother has better memory than you". We will find it out for you!!!

__**Background Knowledge:**__ We have found that a similar experiment was conducted in 2005. This experiment can be viewed by [|clicking here]. Liz B. did this experiment in 2005. They found out that girls had better memory by a tiny score of "3.3%".

__**Question:**__ Do boys have better memory than girls?

__**Experiment:**__ We are going to find out if boys have better memory than girls. We will do four memory tests to find this out!!!

__**Equipment:**__

__**Hypothesis:**__ We think that the boys will have better memory than girls.
 * 1) Paper
 * 2) Stationary
 * 3) Internet
 * 4) Subjects
 * 5) Printer
 * 6) Computer
 * 7) Microsoft Powerpoint

__**Procedure:**__
 * 1) In a quiet place set five tables that are in five different locations.
 * 2) Get 5 year three girls that are the same age.
 * 3) Tell them to sit down at the table.
 * 4) Give the girls test paper to the girls at the exact same time.
 * 5) Let them remember what items are on the test paper within one minute.
 * 6) Take the test paper away and give them paper and pencil.
 * 7) Give them 5 minutes to write down every thing that they can remember.
 * 8) After time runs out collect the paper & let them go.
 * 9) Do the same thing with the boys test paper but with a different group of girls.(Do the same with the boys.)
 * 10) Compare.
 * 11) You will know the result after comparing!!!
 * 12) Now we can enter in the YSA (Young Scientist Awards Hehehehehe)
 * Subjects**

We are going to use 20 children. They will be from year 4 & 3 mix. We wil have 4 groups of 5 children. We will do 5 boys and 5 girls on the boys test & 5 girls and 5 boys doing the girls test.

__**Our Group Roles:**__ Mannat: Timing and watching a person so they do not cheat Scott : Watching two people so they do not cheat Matize: Watching a person so they do not cheat Yousif: Watching a person so they do not cheat

__**Results:**__ __Key:__ ** X = average Boy/Boy = Male participants completing the boy memory test Girl/Boy = Female participants completing the boy memory test. Boy/Girl = Male participants completing the female memory test Girl/Girl = Female participants completing the female memory test
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__**Analysis:**__ From our results, we can see that the girls were able to remember more in the girls test. We can also see that the boys could remember more in the boys test. We think it is interesting that the girls were able to score very similar results in the boys test whereas the boys scored much less in the girls test. The above table shows that on average, the girls had better memory recall overall when doing the girls memory test.

__**Conclusion:**__ In conclusion, our group believes that girls have a better memory than boys (based on our experiment). Our group also believes that people can perhaps do better in a test if the test contains things they know already.

__**Further Investigations:**__ Well, some of the subjects did not know what items they were so our group and mentors think that we should have written the names under it. I think we should just try exactly that if time permits. We could also use a much larger group of students to get a better result.

__**Acknowledgements:**__ A special thanks to......
 * Mr Fisk
 * Mrs Thompson
 * Mrs Aqualina
 * Mr Wicks
 * Mrs Doran
 * Matize Kennedy
 * Scott Hong
 * Yousif Marshallah
 * Mannat Kakkar
 * Mrs Forbes

__**Bibliography:**__ Liz B's experiment in 2005. ( [|clicking here])

Appendix Our group made the following memory tests:

=**Materials (Boys) **=
 * Football
 * Soccer Ball
 * Basketball
 * Soccer Boots
 * Tazo
 * Frizbee
 * Soccer Field
 * Tennis Ball
 * Hand Ball
 * Cricket Ball
 * Cricket Bat
 * Newcombeball
 * Razor Scooter
 * Skateboard
 * Bowling
 * Pool
 * Table Tennis
 * Baseball
 * Cars
 * Batman

=**Materials(Girls) **=
 * Barbies
 * Bratz
 * Lipstick
 * Hannah Montana
 * High School Musical (HSM)
 * A pink dress
 * Earrings
 * Necklace
 * Bracelet
 * Lipgloss
 * Handbag
 * High heeled shoes
 * Princesses (Jasmine, Cinderella, ECT)
 * Skirts
 * Mirror (their best friend because they look into it every time they dress up)
 * Dressing table
 * Flowers (Roses, Daisies, ECT)
 * Netball
 * Nail Polish