Can We Learn About What is Going on in the Brain When we feel a "Sixth Sense" and how to Control It?-Abby K. and Julia Z.

3/14/2014

Our Final Product

Our Final Product Video

Our Trello Card

K
Abby- I don't really know anything about this except that it is a feeling.
Julia- I know that the sixth sense is a feeling you can't really explain.

W
Abby- I want to know how to explain this feeling, and if you can control it and use it.
Julia- I want to know what the brain does when you feel it and how to realistically control it.

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Abby- We will get this information from the internet.
Julia- We will research to find information (internet).

L
Abby- We learned that the sixth sense is a feeling that people have, and it can save lives.
Julia-I can't find many hard scientific facts about ESP, but I learned about the things people have done to test if ESP exists.

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Abby- We made a website with all of the information we learned about the 6th sense.
Julia- We will publish our video on YouTube and try to get our website on Google.

Q
Abby- My questions are how many people have ESP? Does everyone have it? Do you have to work to get it or does it come eaisily?
Julia - Does anyone know the brain's scientific reaction to ESP? Are there any other names for it? How many everyday feelings and tests are associated with this?

Julia's Reflection:
This was really fun. Our original question could not be answered (what happens in the brain hasn't yet been published online anywhere we looked), but the overall process was pretty cool. I especially liked learning about the kinds of ESP, or the sixth sense. I highly recommend looking at the website, or video at least. It was a challenge to mold something like this, an unanswerable topic, into a decent final project. I originally planned to do this alone, but I'm glad I had Abby's help. Some parts of the website were entirely her idea. My own personal website would have been much more boring.

Abby's Reflection
This was a fun passion time, because I didn't even know what the 6th sense was until we started our project, so I learned a lot about it. The only problem was that there wasn't a lot of good and trustworthy websites on the sixth sense because a lot of people didn't believe in it. I had fun working with Julia, and I got to know her better through this round of passion time. I think I learned a lot from this round.

8 Comments

Justin L.

4/1/2014 03:40:06 am

I think that is was cool that you listed all the different things people can do with their sixth sense, but I did not see anything about controlling it and would like to.

Julia

4/1/2014 03:58:37 am

Scientists aren't 100% sure that this actually exists, so no in-depth studies are likely to have occurred. It's like Bigfoot: people have evidence, but not solid evidence, and not everyone believes in it.

Abby

5/27/2014 04:47:56 am

We did have some information on our website on how to control it.

Sam D.

4/1/2014 03:47:58 am

I think this a cool project because I have never heard of the 6th sense. I think you guys did a good job on the website but I just didn't really understand the part where you said it's not an old movie. I liked that you put a link to that website because I read some of it and I think it was cool.Also I would like to hear more about the 6th sense scientifically, like what it really is in your mind and what role it plays in the human body.(obviously you did say a lot about it because that's what your project is about) Overall I think you guys did a good job!

Julia

4/1/2014 04:03:05 am

Most kids aren't really into old movies, but if you search sixth sense on Google, it pulls up the bio of a movie from 1999. Any other movie search does the same for that movie. I also said above that it is hard to find.

Abby

4/1/2014 03:51:19 am

Yeah, we couldn't really find many good or trustworthy websites that tought us how to control it, so we did the best we could.

Fredrick N

4/15/2014 05:29:39 pm

Hello from Canada! I'm a grade 10 student from Ms. Lees class in BC Canada and I was asked to give a bit of feedback on your class's projects. I've scrolled through your teacher's website and found yours to be of particular interest to me because I have actually looked into the exact same area before. I think that it is great you are exploring an area of psychological sciences that aren't even fully understood by modern scientists. Your curiosity might just be able to carry you to be the person to discover the truth behind the sixth sense one day. Your website was fairly well done (some of the grade 10’s here couldn’t have done that), with a good amount of information on it. I especially liked the interactive picture you put on there to show the different senses. That enhanced your message.
In fact, on your grade level, there really isn’t much I can critique here, but I’m sure that you want to know how to achieve more so here are a few points that I found could be improved. Firstly, the website’s design was a bit… trippy to say the least. I’m not sure if that was the intended effect but I found the background and the images to remind me more of hallucinations rather than a “sixth sense”. You can maybe change the images to the specific scientific experiments done or maybe even the people who proposed the idea of ESP. Secondly, I was just wondering if there were more explanations about the sixth sense other than the ESP. As a science nerd, I find it hard to believe the existence of such and extraordinary power that seems more from a movie than real life. I understand you have seen the research done on ESP specifically first (I assume), and went ahead in that direction. However, it might be a good idea to in fact look on an even broader scale and see if there are other “sixth senses”. I know of one explained in the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell called “thin slicing”. (You should look into that, it is quite interesting, the book may be a bit too hard for you thought D: )
Overall your project is extremely well done and I cannot wait to see what kind of ideas you have next!

Abby

5/12/2014 03:32:18 am

Cool! I'm glad your interested in it. I think the sixth sense it really interesting and cool. Thanks for your suggestions.