Friday, August 29, 2008

Enigma Box

The skills a scientist use are observation, which is using one or more of your five senses, taste, smell, sound, sight, and touch. you can use all five of these sense to gather information on things you observe. Next is classifying, which is the process of grouping items together that are alike in a few ways. after that is inferring, inferring is explaining or interpreting things you observe. next is predicting, predicting means a forecast of what might happen in the future based ob past experiences. And another skill is making models which practically explains its self, basically its making models. The event that took place in class was Mrs. Casey showed us the Enigma box. Mrs. Casey would pour a liquid into the black box which had to ends, one with a straw an one with just a big hole you can pour a liquid in. my prediction was that when she pour the liquid their was a tube that would collect these water until it gets to a certain point and then it dumps the water out.

When i see the enigma box i think about a black hole that sucks in a liquid an spits it out. the inside of the enigma box probley has a tube that goes to the top, and when the water or whatever gets to the top all of the liquid comes out.

I See a box, that has four sides that are all Plexiglas. It has a hole on the top and a tube on the bottom. You can pour any liquid in it. After a while nothing happens. when she ours some more it starts to drip. Mrs. Casey keeps pouring liquid in until the last bit, that's when all of the water starts to come out.

What was actually going on in the enigma box was when she was pouring the liquid into the box a tube in the loop was collecting the liquid, until it got to the top. When it got to the top the pressure from all the air pushes the water out. that's what happens in the enigma box. Their the experiment.

2 comments:

Josh Tech said...

I have manysimilarities on my enigma post. like your's I used what scientists and I use to figure out what is inside the box. some differences that my post and your post are. I used the way scientists use predicting and all the other things that they use to figure things out. and I talked less about what i did. your enigma post has many many good things about it in this way I would see you becoming a scientist some day.

evan's 8th grade page said...

hi dee we have alike things in our enigma post by tellin hoe we obsever =d the enigma and trying to figure oit wat was rong with it or how it worked. we also have diffrences by u tell how the sciencets use their five senses to figuer out the enigma. well overall dee that was a really good summery of the enigma box.evan out nahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!