Fidget Spinner Research Aidan Sanders, Andy Nguyen, Brian Powers
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Five bearings.
Four arms.
Print the first two bearings.
Start to fit washers/nuts/bolts into bearings.
Whichever has more mass and fits into the bearing will continue to be used.
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Focus in the classroom setting is hard on people who had been affected by disorders such as ADHD.
Nguyen, A., Sanders, A., & Powers, B. One account. All of Google. Retrieved April 03, 2017, from https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F5hXNHcHNV6s-wtYAjEJw7zbEClBAfyHcV5JoXTwEQA/edit
ADHD/ADD
10 MYTHS AND FACTS ABOUT ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER (ADD/ADHD)
("10 Myths And Facts About Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD/ADHD)")
"10 Myths And Facts About Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD/ADHD)". DrThomaseBrown, 2017. Web. 3 Apr. 2017.
"A person with ADD is six times more likely to have another psychiatric or
learning disorder than most other people."
("A New Approach To")
"A New Approach To". DrThomaseBrown. N.p., 2017. Web. 3 Apr. 2017.
The risks of using medications to treat ADD are less of a risk than using no medications to treat ADD.
The disorder can affected the person's way of sustaining and shifting focus, their short term working memory, and controlling their processing speed.
Give the fidget spinner device to the students in the special education department if they are willing to.
"ADD impairs neural
circuits that function as the conductor of
the symphony." - ADD affects the way the brain executes tasks.
This will mostly affect kids with ADHD and Autism. The spinner will help them focus in class and will listen to the teacher when they are talking for a long period of time.
Time the students and find their reading rate without the fidget spinner.
Record the reading rate per student and start to time the students this time with the fidget spinner.
Record and compare the data results between the two.
Ask the students how they felt with this device, and if the device had improved their focus or provided new benefits.
When the students feel themselves getting bored, distracted, or not focused at all, tell them to spin the spinner.
("Keep Fidgeting! Movement Helps Improve Cognition In Kids With ADHD")
"Keep Fidgeting! Movement Helps Improve Cognition In Kids With ADHD". NBC News., 2017. Web. 3 Apr. 2017.
The students in the trial will have to read aloud in order to get better data (reading and talking requires more for the brain to do).
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Body movement may replace medications.
"He watched the same behavior in his son Trey, but discovered that movement helped, so much so, that the boy never needed medication."
The more physically active someone is, the better it is to focus on tasks.
"Physical activity, like bouncing on a ball chair or even chewing gum, seems to allow these children to focus on difficult tasks, according to research from the University of California Davis MIND Institute, published Thursday in the online journal Child Neuropsychology."
"The children's movement was measured by a device attached to their ankles as they did a "flanker test." The test required them to pay attention to the direction of a series of arrows and to disregard distractions."
"The ADHD students with the highest number of correct answers, showed the greatest degree of movement. There was no correlation between movement and cognition in children without the disorder."
Andy's Sketch
Aidan's Sketch
Brian's Sketch
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Most fidget spinner are three sided because it distribute the most amount of weight evenly.
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