Introduction:
The amount of sugar that teenagers eat effects their concentration levels. I believe that the more sugar a teenager eats the less they are able to concentrate. Therefore, I will be investigating what unhealthy sugar, being refined glucose in the form of chocolate does to a teenager’s concertation. This will be seen through the marks and the time spent on tests that are given to them when they have eaten chocolate and when they haven’t.
Review of Literature:
In all chocolate bars the ingredient of highest content is sugar, this sugar is sucrose. Sucrose is a disaccharide which is formed from glucose and fructose which are monosaccharides joined together. The monosaccharide glucose is the most abundant, and has many uses in the …show more content…
They will all do test 1 at 3 o’clock and have 20mins as max to complete the whole test. As they are doing the test when they each individually get to the ‘brain speed test’ side of the test I will time with a stopwatch, that specific person to see how long it will take her to finish the sums and record it. Once they have all finished their test I will take them in and mark them.
On the second day the 9 teenager girls will each be given their two slabs of chocolates. One that contain 29,4 gram of sugar and the other that contains 34,6 grams that they will eat their first slab throughout the day and their second slab 20 minutes before writing their second test. Test 2 that is different to test 1 but has the same difficulty level, it will be written at 3 o’clock. I will also time the ‘brain speed test’ section with a stopwatch and record the different times.
Once I have marked test 2, I will compare the results in a bar graph.
Variables:
Controlled:
• Amount of time – this will be controlled by a stopwatch.
• Test difficulty – controlled be using the same structure and same concepts.
• Eating the slabs of chocolate – controlled by checking up on each girl.
Independent: the amount of sugar consumed.
Dependent: concentration
The amount of sugar that teenagers eat effects their concentration levels. I believe that the more sugar a teenager eats the less they are able to concentrate. Therefore, I will be investigating what unhealthy sugar, being refined glucose in the form of chocolate does to a teenager’s concertation. This will be seen through the marks and the time spent on tests that are given to them when they have eaten chocolate and when they haven’t.
Review of Literature:
In all chocolate bars the ingredient of highest content is sugar, this sugar is sucrose. Sucrose is a disaccharide which is formed from glucose and fructose which are monosaccharides joined together. The monosaccharide glucose is the most abundant, and has many uses in the …show more content…
They will all do test 1 at 3 o’clock and have 20mins as max to complete the whole test. As they are doing the test when they each individually get to the ‘brain speed test’ side of the test I will time with a stopwatch, that specific person to see how long it will take her to finish the sums and record it. Once they have all finished their test I will take them in and mark them.
On the second day the 9 teenager girls will each be given their two slabs of chocolates. One that contain 29,4 gram of sugar and the other that contains 34,6 grams that they will eat their first slab throughout the day and their second slab 20 minutes before writing their second test. Test 2 that is different to test 1 but has the same difficulty level, it will be written at 3 o’clock. I will also time the ‘brain speed test’ section with a stopwatch and record the different times.
Once I have marked test 2, I will compare the results in a bar graph.
Variables:
Controlled:
• Amount of time – this will be controlled by a stopwatch.
• Test difficulty – controlled be using the same structure and same concepts.
• Eating the slabs of chocolate – controlled by checking up on each girl.
Independent: the amount of sugar consumed.
Dependent: concentration