Science+Experiment+2

__**Topic:**__ Mood

__**Question:**__ If i were to take different colors and show them to students, would the colors affect their mood?

__**Hypothesis:**__ Yes, i think that if i were to take different colors and show them to the students that it would affect their mood.

__**Background information:**__ What do all the different colors mean? Well, the colors have different meaning depending on the culture. Colors appear everywhere. Here are simplified meanings of some of the main colors that we see everywhere and everyday. Black means power or authority and this color makes women look thinner. Priests wear the color black to signify submission to god, and this color can make you feel like you are in a box and it can make you feel depressed. White means or symbolizes innocence and purity. This color is worn a lot in summer and this is a very common color. It makes things like rooms look bigger and brighter and this color can put people in happy or just blank moods. Red is the color of love. This is a very emotional color and it can make people feel loved or it can make them sad. Blue is one of the most popular colors. It can be used as cold and depressing or a lighter blue may make it calming. To me this color makes me feel very calm and relaxed. Green is a symbolization of nature and it seems to be a very soothing color. Yellow is a very loud and bright color that is happy and cheerful. It has been said that yellow is a very difficult color for the eyes to take in. Purple is like a luxury color and wealthy. This color makes me feel happy but kind of trapped. Orange is like a very warm solid but at the same time bright color. This color makes me kind of happy and hyper. []

Colors can affect our moods physically and mentally. Colors are everywhere we go and people have done tests with 6 different colors to see which ones bring out aggression and sadness and happiness and so on. Colors can also affect people behavior. Even though some people are color blind the color gray that they do see can change their mood or behavior. Something that can tell someones mood that people believe in are mood rings. It is a liquid crystal and it changes according to the temperature in your body. The reason for me doing this experiment is to find out if the colors that are surrounding that person is making them act the way they are acting.

Color can also affect how hungry you are at the time. Like when you go into a red room your mood may change and you may start to feel hungry. Sometimes the colors affecting how hungry you are is a good thing because its good for people who are counting calories. Some stores or paint stores are trying to convince you to buy their paint by putting certain colors into certain sections that each color paint goes with. In my personal opinion i prefer brighter happier colors instead of darker colors because the darker colors make me in a bad mood and then im kind of man towards other people where when im around bright colors im happy and nice and cheerful.

__**Materials:**__
 * Different colors of papers or pictures
 * 5 boys and 5 girls
 * pencils/pens
 * a recording sheet

__**Procedure:**__
 * 1) Go to a painting website and click on a room.
 * 2) Next make the room a color and take a picture of it with grab.
 * 3) Then you should make the room all the colors you need and have a picture of them with only one color of the room at a time.
 * 4) Save the pictures to your desktop or put them in a power point.
 * 5) Choose about 10 people 5 boys and 5 girls.
 * 6) Write boy 1 and girl 1 exc...
 * 7) Now have each student look at the computer with the rooms and the different colors.
 * 8) Next ask them what mood it puts them in and record it down on the sheet.
 * 9) After they have done that you are now almost done with the experiment.
 * 10) Finally after you have all your data you can look at it and compare it with the meanings of the colors you have used and see if they match up.