THE INQUIRY WHEEL

After learning about the inquiry wheel and more details about my project I now perceive my project to be more productive and efficient in terms of following the inquiry wheel rather than in terms of the typical "scientific method" approach. I believe that trial and error is the best way to find out the best results. The way that I predict our project to go would be to start with the many questions that we already have about our project. We are going to be studying bioluminescent dinoflagellates and how they react differently in terms of toxins in their environment. We will need to observe others as well as talk with others to help complete our  extensive research to find out what the ideal conditions are for these organisms to live. We will need to know what container to use, the temperature, the lighting etc. These will be all of our questions asked while observing, communication with outer resources, forming more questions and investigating everything that we already know. This process will lead us to our hypothesis on weather or not we think that they chemicals of our choice will significantly effect the bioluminescent dinoflagellates. After we make our hypothesis we will then be ready to carry out our study. We will then examine and reflect on our findings. Based on our results we will either be led back to more questions and a new hypothesis or we will be ready to present our findings to others.
 I strongly believe that the inquiry wheel is going to be very beneficial to our project and I look forward to get started and put it into action.