Chemistry Digital Scientific Notebook
60 Facts: 9/25
For this activity, we researched about individual topics for our project. Below is my research.
Music as an Educational Tool
Source 1: Brown, Laura. “The Benifits of Music Education” <http://www.pbs.org/parents/education/music-arts/the-benefits-of-music-education/> September 25, 2013.
Fact 1: Music enhances the learning in other subjects of school.
Fact 2: Making music involves more than just playing an instrument, a child has to tap into multiple skill sets, often simultaneously.
Fact 3: Music education enhances natural abilities when experienced in young ages.
Fact 4: The brain of a musician is different than a non-musician.
Fact 5: Music training can help with basic memory recall.
Fact 6: Music can enhance how you think and express yourself.
Fact 7: Music can improve abilities in learning, but it’s important to understand does not make one smarter.
Fact 8: When studying music, students develop a link between music and spatial intelligence, or recognizing patterns like they would in a math problem.
Fact 9: Music helps children with social issues.
Fact 10: Students on average score higher on tests when they were given music lessons.
Source 2: Judson, Ellen. “The Importance Of Music”. <http://musicempowersfoundation.com/the-importance-of-music.html> 24, September 2013.
Fact 1: Researchers find strong correlation between music and academic achievement.
Fact 2: Students in band were tested and it showed they had a better math understanding to those that don't play an instrument.
Fact 3: The results for studies were higher with lower income families.
Fact 4: Music instruction affects the achievement of black students greater than of white.
Fact 5: Children with exposure to music at a younger age are more likely to show the greatest benefits.
Fact 6: At least two years of music instruction are required for sustained enhancement of spatial abilities.
Fact 7: Music improves the overall quality of a young person's life.
Fact 8: Helps boost self-esteem for students who perform music in front of others.
Fact 9: Students who are contributing members in a band acquire certain social and emotional skills sich as discipline, collaboration, patience, and motivation.
Fact 10: Students in orchestra were found to have more positive attitudes about school and less classroom friction and competitiveness.
Music as a Medical and/or Therapeutic Device
Source 1: Erkkilä, Jaakko Fact 1: The emphasis in music therapy is used as a tool of self-expression and interaction.
Fact 2: Because most psychiatric disorders are emotional, and music is emotional, it is no wonder that music is such a powerful therapeutic agent.
Fact 3: When using therapy techniques the rule of thumb is that the patient's preferred music usually works best.
Fact 4: Music is something that you have to concentrate on in a specific way for it to really touch you.
Fact 5: Some interactions become possible in music therapy, even when verbal expression is not possible.
Fact 6: The music used in therapy needs to express a particular relationship between the client and the music.
Fact 7: The music needs to build off of the mood that is already there.
Fact 8: Music therapy is really successful in helping depression, music can make you feel less anxious and also allows you to function better.
Fact 9: Music therapy can be divided into two main categories: receptive and active therapy.
Fact 10: Receptive is music listening based therapy, while active is music making based therapy.
Source 2: Ducharme, Jamie. “How Music Therapy Works”. <http://www.bostonmagazine.com/health/blog/2013/05/15/music-therapy/> 25, September 2013
Fact 1: Music can help with cancer, psychiatric illness, and even babies born prematurely.
Fact 2: Therapy includes playing instruments, singing, and listening to music.
Fact 3: Therapy not only releases discomfort, but also unleashes creativity and enhances overall experience of being in a hospital.
Fact 4: Music also as a big affect on physical and social healing, not only emotional.
Fact 5: If you focus your brain on music, it can decrease 50 percent of the pain you feel.
Fact 6: Therapy can improve heart rate, blood pressure, and vital signs.
Fact 7: Children in particular find a creative social outlet that helps with anxiety and isolation.
Fact 8: Therapy can be a way for children to take away something positive from a potentially very traumatic experience.
Fact 9: Everyone has some idea of music, even infants and the very elderly.
Fact 10: The therapy doesn't always work is the pain is intense, but works for a great deal of pain.
Music as Mood and/or Quality of Life Enhancer
Source 1: Sohn, Emily. “Why Music Makes You Happy”. <http://news.discovery.com/human/psychology/music-dopamine-happiness-brain-110110.htm>
Fact 1: Listening to music releases the feel-good chemical dopamine.
Fact 2: Dopamine is a chemical involved in both motivation and addiction.
Fact 3: The pleasure that humans get from listening to music is biologically reinforcing the brain
Fact 4: When you listen to music, the blood flows to regions in the brain involved in dopamine release.
Fact 5: People release a lot of dopamine when listening to music that gives them the chills.
Fact 6: Dopamine is released in anticipation in the song and when chills hit in full force, causing two surges happening in different areas of the brain.
Fact 7: Music can be mildly addictive, like sex and drugs.
Fact 8: Music is a useful tool in trying to explain aspects of happiness, and addiction behavior.
Fact 9: Understanding how music affects us will help us with understanding emotions.
Fact 10: It might explain why music is such a big aspect in human lives.
Source 2: Boothby, Suzanne. “How Music Affects Our Moods”. <http://www.healthline.com/health-news/mental-listening-to-music-lifts-or-reinforces-mood-051713> 17, May 2013. 25, September 2013.
Fact 1: Just by listening to upbeat music can boost people’s moods.
Fact 2: People can boost their overall happiness in two weeks by listening to the right music.
Fact 3: If you don’t attempt to feel better when listening to music, it will not affect you.
Fact 4: Like placebo effect, it only works if you believe it will or you are trying to.
Fact 5: People going through relationship break-ups tend to prefer music that refleccts their negative mood.
Fact 6: They prefer sad music when there is an interpersonal loss going on, as opposed to an impersonal loss.
Fact 7: People like angry music when they are angry at something.
Fact 8: Musical ‘time-outs’ is a way to calm down your body and brain, and to slow your heart rate and help you breathe easier.
Fact 9: Listening to music is all about relaxing the nervous system, about it working on a cellular level.
Fact 10: Singing lessons is a way to bring you into the present moment, and also helps you to feel more energized.
Annotated Bibliography
Brown, Laura. “The Benifits of Music Education” <http://www.pbs.org/parents/education/music-arts/the-benefits-of-music-education/> September 25, 2013.
This source was all about music education, and why it is so important. It explained a lot of research that is currently going on to prove why music is so important, and has some very interesting test results. Kids often have higher test and IQ averages when they play an instrument, or have music lessons on something. It also has a lot of interesting information on how kids brains work differently when they play an instrument. “Children who are involved with music have a much larger growth of neural activity than people not in music training.” This information will really help me in my project by helping me decide which of the three topics to choose to research. Since this part was very interesting, I might want to research more into how the brain works with music.
Judson, Ellen. “The Importance Of Music”. <http://musicempowersfoundation.com/the-importance-of-music.html> September 25, 2013.
This article not only has information on why music education is important, but also what is going on right now politically with art programs and music programs. Although I found this information very interesting, I didn’t feel the need to read it all since I won’t be using it for my project. Something I did find interesting and might use for this project would be a section in this article that was about the public’s views of music education. “...93% of Americans agree that the arts are vital to providing a well-rounded education for children.” This information didn’t really surprise me, but I found it very interesting. This article will help me with my project, it showed me that I might not want to look at why music is important through political views because it was really boring to me.
Erkkilä, Jaakko. “What is Music Therapy and how it works”. <http://www.ithp.org/articles/musictherapy.html> September 25, 2013.
This article is about Music therapy. It was very helpful and gave me lots of information such as how interactions can become possible, even when verbal expressions are not possible. That music therapy only really works when you are concentrating on the music. Also there are two main categories of music: receptive (listening to it), and active (making music, playing instruments, and singing). This information will really help with my project because now I know that I am not as interested in music therapy. I find it pretty interesting, but I will probably not use it for my topic.
Ducharme, Jamie. “How Music Therapy Works”. <http://www.bostonmagazine.com/health/blog/2013/05/15/music-therapy/> 25, September 2013
This article is very interesting, and has a lot of facts in it that helped me with my 60 facts assignment. Music therapy is used for a lot of things including cancer, psychiatric illness, and even babies born prematurely. It helps children take away something positive from a traumatic experience. It fascinates me that this therapy can be used for so many things and work. This article helped me with my project because I now know more about music therapy. It also used to improve the experience of being in a hospital. Another thing I liked was that it showed a picture showing someone get music therapy. It made the understanding of what musical therapy is. The person is holding a tiny guitar or something and playing it. I think that this article was very good and easy to understand, and I might choose this for my topic, but I also like the other choices too.
Sohn, Emily. “Why Music Makes You Happy”. <http://news.discovery.com/human/psychology/music-dopamine-happiness-brain-110110.htm> September 25, 2013.
This article was about how music can change or boost our emotion. If you listen to upbeat music, you will feel more happy. The reason I really liked this article would be that it talks about what your brain is doing while you listen to music. It releases a feel-good chemical: dopamine. The interesting thing about this is that this chemical also is involved in both motivation and addiction. It says that just like sex and drugs, music can be mildly addictive. A question that I have would be what would a person mildly addicted to music act like? Would they just listen to a lot of music? This article was very helpful to me because I read it and came up with questions to answer. This means that I will probably use this topic for my research topic because I found it interesting and I would have something to research about, a question to answer.
Boothby, Suzanne. “How Music Affects Our Moods”. <http://www.healthline.com/health-news/mental-listening-to-music-lifts-or-reinforces-mood-051713> May 17, 2013. September 25, 2013.
This article was very interesting because it describes several studies going on with this topic. One was about looking at multiple people, and having them listen to upbeat music and seeing if their moods improved. It turns out, it did, and if they listened to sad music, they would be sad. People generally prefer music that reflects what they are feeling, which is why people who have just suffered from a relationship break-up will want to listen to sadder music. Also, people tend to want to listen to sad music when experiencing a personal loss, as opposed to an impersonal loss. I found this very interesting, though not as interesting as the article before. I will probably pick this topic as my research, but only focus on the chemical level and how your brain reacts to music.
Introduction to the Atom: 9/5
For this entry, I have taken notes on the following video: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/chemistry/introduction-to-the-atom/v/elements-and-atoms
My Notes:
Here are my notes on this video: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/chemistry/introduction-to-the-atom/v/introduction-to-the-atom
Notes:
Groups of the Periodic Table: 9/4
For this entry, I have notes that I have taken on this video by khan academy about the Periodic table: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/chemistry/periodic-table-trends-bonding/v/groups-of-the-periodic-table
These are my notes:
So this video basically talks about the different groups of the periodic table and how many electrons each column has in it's outer shell. Elements react to each other because they want to have eight electrons on their outer shell. It makes them happy and is how they bond.
For this activity, we researched about individual topics for our project. Below is my research.
Music as an Educational Tool
Source 1: Brown, Laura. “The Benifits of Music Education” <http://www.pbs.org/parents/education/music-arts/the-benefits-of-music-education/> September 25, 2013.
Fact 1: Music enhances the learning in other subjects of school.
Fact 2: Making music involves more than just playing an instrument, a child has to tap into multiple skill sets, often simultaneously.
Fact 3: Music education enhances natural abilities when experienced in young ages.
Fact 4: The brain of a musician is different than a non-musician.
Fact 5: Music training can help with basic memory recall.
Fact 6: Music can enhance how you think and express yourself.
Fact 7: Music can improve abilities in learning, but it’s important to understand does not make one smarter.
Fact 8: When studying music, students develop a link between music and spatial intelligence, or recognizing patterns like they would in a math problem.
Fact 9: Music helps children with social issues.
Fact 10: Students on average score higher on tests when they were given music lessons.
Source 2: Judson, Ellen. “The Importance Of Music”. <http://musicempowersfoundation.com/the-importance-of-music.html> 24, September 2013.
Fact 1: Researchers find strong correlation between music and academic achievement.
Fact 2: Students in band were tested and it showed they had a better math understanding to those that don't play an instrument.
Fact 3: The results for studies were higher with lower income families.
Fact 4: Music instruction affects the achievement of black students greater than of white.
Fact 5: Children with exposure to music at a younger age are more likely to show the greatest benefits.
Fact 6: At least two years of music instruction are required for sustained enhancement of spatial abilities.
Fact 7: Music improves the overall quality of a young person's life.
Fact 8: Helps boost self-esteem for students who perform music in front of others.
Fact 9: Students who are contributing members in a band acquire certain social and emotional skills sich as discipline, collaboration, patience, and motivation.
Fact 10: Students in orchestra were found to have more positive attitudes about school and less classroom friction and competitiveness.
Music as a Medical and/or Therapeutic Device
Source 1: Erkkilä, Jaakko Fact 1: The emphasis in music therapy is used as a tool of self-expression and interaction.
Fact 2: Because most psychiatric disorders are emotional, and music is emotional, it is no wonder that music is such a powerful therapeutic agent.
Fact 3: When using therapy techniques the rule of thumb is that the patient's preferred music usually works best.
Fact 4: Music is something that you have to concentrate on in a specific way for it to really touch you.
Fact 5: Some interactions become possible in music therapy, even when verbal expression is not possible.
Fact 6: The music used in therapy needs to express a particular relationship between the client and the music.
Fact 7: The music needs to build off of the mood that is already there.
Fact 8: Music therapy is really successful in helping depression, music can make you feel less anxious and also allows you to function better.
Fact 9: Music therapy can be divided into two main categories: receptive and active therapy.
Fact 10: Receptive is music listening based therapy, while active is music making based therapy.
Source 2: Ducharme, Jamie. “How Music Therapy Works”. <http://www.bostonmagazine.com/health/blog/2013/05/15/music-therapy/> 25, September 2013
Fact 1: Music can help with cancer, psychiatric illness, and even babies born prematurely.
Fact 2: Therapy includes playing instruments, singing, and listening to music.
Fact 3: Therapy not only releases discomfort, but also unleashes creativity and enhances overall experience of being in a hospital.
Fact 4: Music also as a big affect on physical and social healing, not only emotional.
Fact 5: If you focus your brain on music, it can decrease 50 percent of the pain you feel.
Fact 6: Therapy can improve heart rate, blood pressure, and vital signs.
Fact 7: Children in particular find a creative social outlet that helps with anxiety and isolation.
Fact 8: Therapy can be a way for children to take away something positive from a potentially very traumatic experience.
Fact 9: Everyone has some idea of music, even infants and the very elderly.
Fact 10: The therapy doesn't always work is the pain is intense, but works for a great deal of pain.
Music as Mood and/or Quality of Life Enhancer
Source 1: Sohn, Emily. “Why Music Makes You Happy”. <http://news.discovery.com/human/psychology/music-dopamine-happiness-brain-110110.htm>
Fact 1: Listening to music releases the feel-good chemical dopamine.
Fact 2: Dopamine is a chemical involved in both motivation and addiction.
Fact 3: The pleasure that humans get from listening to music is biologically reinforcing the brain
Fact 4: When you listen to music, the blood flows to regions in the brain involved in dopamine release.
Fact 5: People release a lot of dopamine when listening to music that gives them the chills.
Fact 6: Dopamine is released in anticipation in the song and when chills hit in full force, causing two surges happening in different areas of the brain.
Fact 7: Music can be mildly addictive, like sex and drugs.
Fact 8: Music is a useful tool in trying to explain aspects of happiness, and addiction behavior.
Fact 9: Understanding how music affects us will help us with understanding emotions.
Fact 10: It might explain why music is such a big aspect in human lives.
Source 2: Boothby, Suzanne. “How Music Affects Our Moods”. <http://www.healthline.com/health-news/mental-listening-to-music-lifts-or-reinforces-mood-051713> 17, May 2013. 25, September 2013.
Fact 1: Just by listening to upbeat music can boost people’s moods.
Fact 2: People can boost their overall happiness in two weeks by listening to the right music.
Fact 3: If you don’t attempt to feel better when listening to music, it will not affect you.
Fact 4: Like placebo effect, it only works if you believe it will or you are trying to.
Fact 5: People going through relationship break-ups tend to prefer music that refleccts their negative mood.
Fact 6: They prefer sad music when there is an interpersonal loss going on, as opposed to an impersonal loss.
Fact 7: People like angry music when they are angry at something.
Fact 8: Musical ‘time-outs’ is a way to calm down your body and brain, and to slow your heart rate and help you breathe easier.
Fact 9: Listening to music is all about relaxing the nervous system, about it working on a cellular level.
Fact 10: Singing lessons is a way to bring you into the present moment, and also helps you to feel more energized.
Annotated Bibliography
Brown, Laura. “The Benifits of Music Education” <http://www.pbs.org/parents/education/music-arts/the-benefits-of-music-education/> September 25, 2013.
This source was all about music education, and why it is so important. It explained a lot of research that is currently going on to prove why music is so important, and has some very interesting test results. Kids often have higher test and IQ averages when they play an instrument, or have music lessons on something. It also has a lot of interesting information on how kids brains work differently when they play an instrument. “Children who are involved with music have a much larger growth of neural activity than people not in music training.” This information will really help me in my project by helping me decide which of the three topics to choose to research. Since this part was very interesting, I might want to research more into how the brain works with music.
Judson, Ellen. “The Importance Of Music”. <http://musicempowersfoundation.com/the-importance-of-music.html> September 25, 2013.
This article not only has information on why music education is important, but also what is going on right now politically with art programs and music programs. Although I found this information very interesting, I didn’t feel the need to read it all since I won’t be using it for my project. Something I did find interesting and might use for this project would be a section in this article that was about the public’s views of music education. “...93% of Americans agree that the arts are vital to providing a well-rounded education for children.” This information didn’t really surprise me, but I found it very interesting. This article will help me with my project, it showed me that I might not want to look at why music is important through political views because it was really boring to me.
Erkkilä, Jaakko. “What is Music Therapy and how it works”. <http://www.ithp.org/articles/musictherapy.html> September 25, 2013.
This article is about Music therapy. It was very helpful and gave me lots of information such as how interactions can become possible, even when verbal expressions are not possible. That music therapy only really works when you are concentrating on the music. Also there are two main categories of music: receptive (listening to it), and active (making music, playing instruments, and singing). This information will really help with my project because now I know that I am not as interested in music therapy. I find it pretty interesting, but I will probably not use it for my topic.
Ducharme, Jamie. “How Music Therapy Works”. <http://www.bostonmagazine.com/health/blog/2013/05/15/music-therapy/> 25, September 2013
This article is very interesting, and has a lot of facts in it that helped me with my 60 facts assignment. Music therapy is used for a lot of things including cancer, psychiatric illness, and even babies born prematurely. It helps children take away something positive from a traumatic experience. It fascinates me that this therapy can be used for so many things and work. This article helped me with my project because I now know more about music therapy. It also used to improve the experience of being in a hospital. Another thing I liked was that it showed a picture showing someone get music therapy. It made the understanding of what musical therapy is. The person is holding a tiny guitar or something and playing it. I think that this article was very good and easy to understand, and I might choose this for my topic, but I also like the other choices too.
Sohn, Emily. “Why Music Makes You Happy”. <http://news.discovery.com/human/psychology/music-dopamine-happiness-brain-110110.htm> September 25, 2013.
This article was about how music can change or boost our emotion. If you listen to upbeat music, you will feel more happy. The reason I really liked this article would be that it talks about what your brain is doing while you listen to music. It releases a feel-good chemical: dopamine. The interesting thing about this is that this chemical also is involved in both motivation and addiction. It says that just like sex and drugs, music can be mildly addictive. A question that I have would be what would a person mildly addicted to music act like? Would they just listen to a lot of music? This article was very helpful to me because I read it and came up with questions to answer. This means that I will probably use this topic for my research topic because I found it interesting and I would have something to research about, a question to answer.
Boothby, Suzanne. “How Music Affects Our Moods”. <http://www.healthline.com/health-news/mental-listening-to-music-lifts-or-reinforces-mood-051713> May 17, 2013. September 25, 2013.
This article was very interesting because it describes several studies going on with this topic. One was about looking at multiple people, and having them listen to upbeat music and seeing if their moods improved. It turns out, it did, and if they listened to sad music, they would be sad. People generally prefer music that reflects what they are feeling, which is why people who have just suffered from a relationship break-up will want to listen to sadder music. Also, people tend to want to listen to sad music when experiencing a personal loss, as opposed to an impersonal loss. I found this very interesting, though not as interesting as the article before. I will probably pick this topic as my research, but only focus on the chemical level and how your brain reacts to music.
Introduction to the Atom: 9/5
For this entry, I have taken notes on the following video: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/chemistry/introduction-to-the-atom/v/elements-and-atoms
My Notes:
- Atoms are the smallest particle that you can break down from elements that still have that element's characteristics
- Atoms are made up of protons, electrons, and neutrons
- # of protons defines the element
- Periodic table organized by # of protons/atomic #
- Different types of atoms for the same element, with different #s of electrons and neutrons
- Electrons stay 'attached' to the atom because unlike charges are attracted to each other (protons are positive, electrons are negative)
- Atoms can have a positive, negative, or no charge
- If there are more protons than electrons it has a positive charge
- If there are more electrons than protons it has a negative charge
- If they have the same # then the charges cancel out.
Here are my notes on this video: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/chemistry/introduction-to-the-atom/v/introduction-to-the-atom
Notes:
- The word Atom is greek for uncuttable
- Atoms can be cut though, they are made up of protons, electrons, and neutrons
- Electrons don't orbit the atom, they are more like haze or blur because they don't have a given orbit or path
- They are orbital, and you can only find out where electrons might/probably will be
- The further away the electron is to the nucleus, the more likely it will travel in more of an orbital shape
- Every proton and neutron is one atomic mass unit, approximately 1.67 x 10 e-27
- One proton's mass equals 1,836 electrons
- When counting mass of an atom, you ignore the electron because it is so small comparatively
- Atomic weight of elements are averaged with all the isotopes of the element
- Isotopes: same element, different # of neutrons
- The nucleus is an infinitely small part of the volume of an atom (1/10000)
- Volume is determined by where it's most likely the electrons could be
- 99.99% of everything is free space when looking at the atoms of objects
- Angstrom is 1 x 10 e-10 meters, is 100,000 femto-meters
Groups of the Periodic Table: 9/4
For this entry, I have notes that I have taken on this video by khan academy about the Periodic table: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/chemistry/periodic-table-trends-bonding/v/groups-of-the-periodic-table
These are my notes:
- Every element in a column has the same # of electrons in their outermost shells
- Characteristics of metals: likely to give away electrons
- Silver is the best conductor on the planet
- Alkaline metals have one electron, Alkaline earth metals have two electrons, & transitional metals have two electrons, hallogens have seven, and noble gases have eight (except for helium which has two) in their outer shell
- All atoms want to get to 8 electrons
- Noble gases are highly non-reactive
So this video basically talks about the different groups of the periodic table and how many electrons each column has in it's outer shell. Elements react to each other because they want to have eight electrons on their outer shell. It makes them happy and is how they bond.