Monday, March 17, 2008

Is Springing Forward Bad For You?

Your first article assignment is to read the article about time change and comment to this post what your thoughts are about Daylight Savings. Is this a good or bad idea? What could we do as an alternative? The article is found at http://www.livescience.com/environment/070307_daylight_savings.html and contains other interesting reads. Over the course of the next few weeks, you will be allowed to comment about science articles via this website. Please take advantage of the technology and indulge yourself in the science content! :) Enjoy your read!

Ms. Maxwell

37 comments:

Anonymous said...

hey mrs maxwell. I don't like daylight savings time cause it confuses me.

Anonymous said...

Hey Ms. Maxwell. I really dont like daylight savings time because it screws up my sleeping pattern. i understand tho tht it could save a good bit of electricty, but it taks away my wanted hour of sleep!!

Paul Ochs

simoneaux said...

i love daylight savings time

Rachell :) said...

I like day light savings. I like getting the extra hour of daylight.
It gives us more time to go outside and play when you get home from school. But i dont like when you lose an hour of sleep the first day of the change. That's what i think about daylight savings.

Anonymous said...

HEY SMAX I HATE DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME CUZ WE HAVE TO 2 WAKE UP AN HOUR EARLIER. I DONT THINK WE SHOULD HAVE IT BECUZ IT CONFUSES EVERYBODY. IT IS HORRIBLE 4 PEOPLE CUZ IT DEPRIVES PEOPLE OF SLEEP CUZ U WAKE UP AN HOUR EARLY. I ALSO THINK IT MAKES US MORE HUNGRY CUZ WE ARE AN HOUR FORWARD. ADAM

Anonymous said...

I don't like daylight savings time because It throws me off.On the other hand without daylight savings time I would wonder why the days become shorter and longer.Whith daylight savings I'm notified when the time changes so that I won't have to wonder.In the long run I guess It's ok.

from sami v.

Anonymous said...

Daylight Savings Time

I think daylights savings time is a bad idea. It worked well a long time ago to help the farmers during their growing periods, but has outlived its usefullness. Now it just makes people late for work and lose sleep. Only fat people like daylights savings.

-Chase H3nry like a mug

Anonymous said...

daylight savings time doesnt make a difference in my life, it just forces me to change some of my clocks =D

Anonymous said...

Hey there i read that article and i was utterly amazed! The fact that we rely on a part of our brain that tels when to put extra minerals into our bloodstream to boost our body. Then that we rely on sunlight to give us vitamin D thats why its called sunny D. And hollywood stars have good teeth, they spend too much time on the beach.

Anonymous said...

I don't like it because I lose an hour of sleep!

Ashlie

Anonymous said...

Psh. Are you joking??I hate losing an hour to sleep and do other stuff. The whole purpose was so that farmers could have more time to spend in the daylight....but dont they have tractors that have like lights and stuff??? Yeah. DISADVANTAGE for USSS!!

emily

Anonymous said...

Springing forward the day before Leap can cause people to lose a needed hour of sleep and, if someone happens to forget that it is happening at all, they would come to school an hour late. Springing forward seems to cause more trouble than good.

~Dusty Savage

Nugent said...

Hey Smax!!!!!!! I dont like daylight savings time!!!!! It ok in the fall,but it is very bad in the spring.We could all move to Arizona and be normal like other people!

Anonymous said...

NO, i play traveling baseball so this gives me more day light to play with and i can practice later. I cant think of an alterntive but if saving energy is the only reason 4 this than quit being retards and use solar power and not fossil fuels so the ozone dosent die.


This talked about why we need daylight savings.What time its starts. the effects it has.




J.T.

Keeeellllllliiiiii:] said...

I am indifferent,because i can adjust to time chenges quite well.

Courtney said...

Hey Smax, I HATE daylight savings its not fun!!!!! Going to bed earlier....i hate that. Anyway....See u in class Smax!!!
-♥Courtney L.♥

Anonymous said...

I DONT LIKE DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME BECAUSE YOU LOSE AN HOUR OF SLEEP. I HATE LOSING SLEEP. LEVI

Anonymous said...

this is michael i like to spring forward becuz u get 2 be outside and xtra hour to do stuff my dad is the lucky one to chsange the clocks though.......

Anonymous said...

I don't like daylight savings time because I get messed up setting my clocks right. I don't care about energy use or vitamin d, I just don't like doing it

John Thomas Milan

Anonymous said...

I LOVE DAYLIGHT SAVINGS you get an extra hour to play outside how cool is that! from graham

Anonymous said...

i like 2 spring 4ward b/c there is more time 2 play outside.there is an xtra hour to play pretty much anything. my mom changes all the clocks in the house b/c no 1 else wants to.the only bad thing is that i lose an hour of sleep.





kaleb

Anonymous said...

lucas:daylight saving time is bad 2 me.i hate it because u get -1 hr of sleep(boo).it might be fun in the afternoon but u get very tired in the morning.there r some fun things though.u get +1more hr of playtime and u get 2 have dinner later (when your parents dont want to talk about school)then they might 4get 2 tell u 2 go to bed (yay).day light savings time has its ups and downs so either way its sorta good & sorta bad.have a good day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sydney Salter said...

hey ms maxwell. I like daylight savings time apparently not like everybody else. Its hard to get dressed in the morning when its still dark outside!

-Sydney-

Anonymous said...

I don't like it because I have to get up earlyer than usally. I don't think that it was for farmers.lol!!! see you at school if I don't fake sick towmorrow.


Muck

Ethan Rutherford said...

i dont like daylight savings time. it makes sleeping weird and i dont like having to change all the clocks in my house. there really isnt any reason to it, either.

Anonymous said...

I like the daylight part...
But not so much the not sleeping part.
I'm "indiffetent" about it.

(Big word) woohoo!!

Anonymous said...

I like daylight savings time because there are longer days. no alternative

matthew upshaw

Anonymous said...

Hey Ms. Maxwell. The thing I don't like about daylight savings is the lack of sunlight in the mornings. It's a little depressing to wake up in the dark.
Ruth

Anonymous said...

heyy ms.maxwell
i hate tha fact of loosing and hour of sleep:[ especialy wakein up earlier..its so stupid.

alex

Anonymous said...

i don't like daylight savings because it makes us loose a hour of sleep and I sometimes I forget to set my clocks.
Amelia

Anonymous said...

I really dont like daylight savings time because I lose an hour of sleep.



Wesley

LSUtigers35 said...

I hate daylight savings time! When i was in Kentucky i was in eastern time and then we lost an hour for savings time and then we flew back to central time. It was so confusing it took me a week to figure out what time it was!!!

Katie C :)

rachel said...

hola Smax!
i hate daylight savings time when we lose sleep,but i like it because we get more daylight to play soccer and stuff like that.

rachel said...

yeah i dont like daylight savings time cuz we lose sleep,but i like it cuz we get more time to go outside and play soccer and stuff

HaNnAh GiSs!!! said...

I don't think that it could HURT anyone but it is anoying. Even if we only save a litte energy as the whole country it's more than none and we have so many people who don't care about the enviorment so daylight savings could save us alot of energy when we eventually add all the years up. Get used to the time change and stop complaining it could in the future become useful!
HaNnAh GiSs!!!

☮minnie☮ said...

I think daylight savings time rocks!

claibo said...

I think Daylight Savings time is a bad idea. There are many health risks involved.