Science+Experiment

=Scientific Method Template =
 * Topic:** Teenage Stress Factors


 * Question:** What factors have the greatest effect in producing stress for teenagers?

**Background Information:** Researchers say that there are "happy" messengers and "sad" messengers in stress. The "happy" messengers are made up of Serotonin, Noradrenaline, and Dopamine. Serotonin is a body clock, and is the part that sets the patterns of sleep and when you are awake. Noradrenaline is the energy field of your body and it is the part that makes you feel energetic or not. Dopamine gives you the ability to enjoy things. If these three things failed, it would put a lot more stress on a teenager. If a teenager doesn't get a normal rate of exercise, a good amount of sleep, or has a bad diet, the body cannot get those things back.

http://www.thehealthcenter.info/teen-stress/causes-of-stress.htm


 * Hypothesis:** If I ask 21 teens to number what puts stress on them most, school will the most of their problems.


 * Procedure:**
 * Step 1:** Observe the things that cause many teens stress.
 * Step 2:** Make a survey with the data and number it one to ten.
 * Step 3:** Pass the survey out to thirty students.
 * Step 4:** When students are done, collect the surveys.
 * Step 5:** Record Data on a bar graph.

21 students a writing utensil
 * Materials:** 21 surveys


 * Experiment:** Do The Experiment

I gave a survey to 21 students and the results show that more of the students were more stressed with school, than with any other thing.
 * Data/Results:** [[file:Teen Stress results]]


 * Conclusion:** If I ask 21 students to number what puts stress on them most, school will be the most of their problems. My hypothesis was correct. My hypothesis was correct because from looking at the results, I saw that the higher numbers were on school with most of the people. Twelve of the people who took the survey answered with numbers ranging from 7 to 10. Some mistakes that I had were making the survey without the procedure done and leaving most of the experiment until a little last minute. The things that I would change are doing the procedure first, doing the experiment first hand, and trying on a stressed out class.