Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Creating Mystery


The "Mystery Bag" experiment was definitely an interesting way to introduce the scientific process. Not only did it give us a chance as a class to reintroduce ourselves to science, but it could be used for a variety of topics in and out of a science lesson. The mystery bag lesson could be used to introduce students to the process of observing, hypothesizing, predicting, and carrying out an experiment. It could also be used to introduce a new topic in science by including items relevant to the topic and having students hypothesize and predict both what items are in the bag, but what they will be learning next. The activity could also be adapted to use as an activity for students to get to know each other. Each student could place items in the bag they thought represented themselves, and exchange bags with another person, who then had to decide what those items said about their classmate. Overall the mystery bag activity was insightful both in the context of science, as well as how else it could be used in the classroom.

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