Group 27

Day 1: We just created our blog and we're going to record everything on it. We are currently finishing up our student handouts at the moment and conducting research on our topic, pressure/stress

Day 2: Today we are working on the student handout after we distributed the work evenly.  We are conducting more research on our topic and getting some ideas on how to set up our experiment.

Day 3: We worked on the student handouts and we conducted more research on our topic.  We also created a rough idea of how we should conduct our experiment

Day 4: We talked about how we should run the experiment and we came to an agreement so we know exactly how we should run our experiment. We're going to create a quick trivia quiz that consists of 10 questions that our participants are going to have to answer in under a minute.  We will put pressure on them in different ways.

Day 5: We brought in a posterboard for psych fair and we made some minor changes to our experiment.  One change was our participants answering the question.  Originally, we thought they should sit down at a computer and answer the questions but we changed it so that we would read them the questions and have them verbally answer them.

Day 6: We prepared things to print out and put on our poster.

Day 7: We printed out our stuff for the poster and now we're just getting ready to set it up.

Day 8: We had to reprint our papers because of some mistakes and we glued everything to the poster. Now we are ready for the parent psych fair.

Day 9: We conducted our experiment and it was very successful. We met our estimated number of participants and we wouldn't change anything about our experiment

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