Lack of Sleep Science Fair Projects

Sleep

Sleep is a necessary process. During sleep the human brain is able to process the information that it has taken in during the day.

Objectives/Goals

Our objective was to learn if lack of sleep affects performance.

Methods/Materials

We tested our subjects with their normal sleep and without sleep for one night in math, hand-eye coordination in a basketball shoot and catching a tennis ball, and running speed.

Results

We found that our subjects performed slower and less accurately after having no sleep.

Conclusions/Discussion

Our subjects did not perform as well without sleep and supported our hypothesis. We also found from our reseach that lack of sleep increases brain activity and temperature, and people are unable to think or do things as well as they normally do. We saw and felt how hard it is to stay up all night. 3rd party contributor