Thursday, November 8, 2012

Blog 5B: Science Fair Proposal

1. Topic: Horses

2. The problem behind my experiment is that children come in to the clinic unrelaxed and stressed out due to their everyday challenges and environments.

3. If a child's heart rate gets measured both before and after a hippotherapy session, then the child's heart rate will decrease due to the relaxation that the horse brings to the patient.

4. I will perform this experiment by selecting 22 individuals taking hippotherapy. From there, I will measure their heart rates before they get on the horse and after they have ridden the horse for a full hippotherapy session. If possible I will also measure their heart rates while on the horse. I will then evaluate and conclude my experiment. In doing this experiment, I hope to prove that a horse really does help in the therapy process by providing relaxation with the patients. I hope to prove that the patient's heart rate is greater before the hippotherapy session and the heart rate decreases after the hippotherapy session is complete.

5. Behavioral Science

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