Container of Great Mystery

The Mystery container experiment is on of those experiments when you start off and you think, "how the heck am I supposed to know what is inside this thing?" However, when you start thinking about it more it comes together. Especially, with the help of a different container with possible items. As a group we started by using the magnet and found that there was a magnet in the container because of the attraction. After that we took the weight and found how much we had to make up for. The weight of our container and the mystery one were only a few grams off, so from there we went to adding small things.
This connects with the Inquiry wheel well because of  the circular way of going about finding out what was inside. It took a lot of observation to form a question, then testing it, then back to observing. We observed aspects such as sound and mass. After shaking the container our group could kind of tell what kind of objects we did or didn't have inside. Over all it was a very cool experiment that I could see myself using in the classroom.

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