I found the mystery container activity to be such great lesson and something a definitely see myself using in my future classroom. I feel that this activity is one that really gets the minds going and could educate so many different age groups. I learned that no matter how many questions you ask in science you can still never be 100% of your results. Within my group we had begun eliminating one object at a time based on the weights of them within the container as we weighed them to compare to the unknown object. We came to the conclusion that there was a magnet in our container and tested this hypothesis by letting the magnet hold up the paper clip from the outside of the container. Although we were sure there was a magnet in our container we faced the question if there was ONLY a magnet in the container. This question arose when we discovered that the two weights did not match up. In the end it was a simple scale error but this just came to show that even though your results presented them one time there is still a very good chance that the next time they may be different and you can never be 100% sure in science.
This ties into the inquiry wheel because the process to find out what was in this container followed that process. We formed a hypothesis, tested it, proved it wrong and then began again and again.
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