It's a Mystery

We were handed an opaque container with out the permission to open it. Troubling i know! Our curiosity kept building the longer we had to examine it and ask as many questions as we could. My group came up with 37 questions about what could be inside the container. It rattled a little bit but was big enough to take up most of the space it had. We asked questions that pertained to all of the senses and then some that not everyone would ask. The class has realized that the more questions you ask the easier it will be to narrow down your choices of what could be in the container. Finally we got a hint about the mystery objects by getting a plastic container full of the items that could be in the container. So we started a guess-and-check process by filling a seperate container exactly like the other one with the objects given to us. At the end of the hour we were given permission to open it! Unfortunately we were one object away from knowing what was in our mystery container. Our senses were off that day but now we know a piece of what scientists really do! The key to all science is to ask questions!