Friday, August 29, 2008

enigma box

Mrs. Casey put 500 mils of water into the enigma box. the box is black and has 3 holes, 2 on top, 1 bigger than the other, and 1 hole at the bottom of the box. the first few millimeters Mrs. Casey poured in to the box, nothing happened. After about 450 millimeters, the water started to slowly come out of the bottom hole.
i think there is a maze in the box, which causes it to take a while for it to get to the very end of the enigma box and threw the bottom hole and into the cup. that is my prediction.
skills scientist use are, predicting, classifying, observing, inferring, and model. scientist use this daily to observe creatures, plants, and other objects. i found out that there was 1 tube inside the enigma box, mrs casey had to put so much in the box to make the water preasure rise so it could all come out at the bottom. my prediction was close but wasnt exactly right people all over the world use scientist skill every day as a daily part of there lives.
in the end, i found out that my prediction wasnt right and that there was a tube inside the box. i also learned the 5 skills scientist use and that people use them every day of our lives! i also learned a bit about how water preasure works and how the enigma box worked.