Usually the round about way of doing something is not the best way to complete a task. However, when it comes to messy science, I believe that the round about Inquiry wheel is the best way to break up the scientific thought process. Opposed to the linear scientific method, that mostly everyone learns in middle school, the inquiry wheel does not have to be followed in any order and works along with actual science much better. There is no beginning or end, no right or wrong, it is just putting a little order to the messiness of questions that scientist have. It works quite slick once one takes tries it out with an experiment.
When looking at the experiment that our group camp up with, we start with the question "Does deer scat work as well as store bought fertilizer?" From there we can go any number of different ways. We went to the 'investigating the known' part, and looked at the ingredients of normal fertilizer compared to what we think makes up deer scat. From there we can reflect on what we found or we could go to 'articulating the expectations' aka forming a hypothesis.You can see there that there really is no wrong way of doing it, it works right along with you as you work through your question. SCIENCE!
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