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 * TASK THREE: SPYING ON SLEEP**

Back to Room 7 Homestudy Week 4 Term 1 SLEEP JOURNALS: You will have made up your sleep journals in class. Keep a track of your sleeping patterns over the next week by filling in each category each day. In the notes section record any notes about your sleeping patterns, including if you woke up at night, how many times you hit the snooze button on your alarm, if you woke up before your alarm, if you overslept, what your mood was, etc.

All human brains need sleep. Sleep has many functions, some of which scientists don’t fully understand. They do know that while asleep the brain makes vital proteins, such as those that maintain and repair brain cells, at a faster rate than while awake. Sleep also helps store energy efficiently. If you go too long without sleep, you’ll lose your coordination and fast reactions, and you may stumble on words or slur your speech. How much sleep do you need every night? That depends—everyone’s different.
 * BACKGROUND INFORMATION**

Questions to answer at the beginning of the week... //1. Do you think you need a lot of sleep or a little sleep? 2. How many hours of sleep do you get each night, on average? 3. If you went without sleep, do you think you’d be able to remember things as well as you could with a good night’s sleep? Would you be able to think as clearly?//

5 = woke up before the alarm and jumped out of bed 4 = woke up with the alarm 3 = woke up with the alarm, but laid in bed awhile 2 = hit the snooze button several times (or parent came in several times), but eventually woke up 1 = overslept or slept in**
 * MORNING ENERGY-LEVEL SCALE

SLEEP JOURNAL QUESTIONS (to answer at the end of the week). If you have any trouble with the graph work please see me for help during the week. //1. Did you go to bed the same time every night and wake up the same time every morning? 2. Make a bar graph (histogram) of the number of hours you slept each night. Label the X-axis Night 1, Night 2, Night 3, etc. The Y-axis will show the number of hours of sleep and should be labeled starting with 0 and ending with the most hours you slept on a single night. Did you sleep the same amount every night or did it vary? 3. Calculate the average number of hours you slept a night (add the number of hours you slept each night and divide by the number of nights). 4. Were there any nights when you got at least an hour less than your average amount of sleep? If so, check your energy-level rating for that day and write it down. 5. Check the Notes section for the day after you had a short night’s sleep. Were you extra sleepy that day? Were you grumpy? Did you find it hard to concentrate or remember things? 6. Check your journal for a night when you had more than your average amount of sleep. What was your energy-level rating the next morning? Was it what you would expect? Why or why not? 7. Were there any nights when you had a hard time falling asleep? If so, how long did you estimate it took you to fall asleep? Did you note why you couldn’t fall asleep? If you did, write down the reason. 8. Write a page describing your sleep patterns and your recommendations on how much sleep you need and why.// Back to Room 7 Homestudy Week 4 Term 1