Inside The Black Bottle Experiment

The purpose of trying to figure out what was inside the black bottle was to understand the basic elements of the scientific inquiry process. We hypothesized that there was a push pin and string inside the unknown bottle—this was based on observations. In order to determine whether our hypothesis was correct or not, we massed out the unknown bottle, an empty bottle, and items that could potentially be inside the bottle. We also put items inside the empty bottle and compared the sound to the unknown bottle. The results showed that there were differences in sound between the unknown bottle and the empty bottle that had different items inside. Data also showed that there was a limit to what could be inside the bottle since certain items, when inserted into the empty bottle, weighed more than the unknown bottle. Our hypothesis was falsified since …show more content…
In this experiment, students were able to learn about the basic elements of the scientific inquiry which helped students think critically—students also used the scientific method to conduct this experiment. In this experiment, we were given a black bottle and a bag that had items that could be inside the bottle. The independent variable was the contents inside the bag, while the dependent variable was the contents inside the black bottle since that is what we had determine.
In order to learn more about the elements of scientific inquiry, we made observations in order to come up with a hypothesis. Through observations, we got an idea of what we could hypothesis—observations gave us limitations on what we could hypothesis. Through the process of scientific inquire, we had to think critically about what could be inside the bottle and how we can support our hypothesis without opening the bottle. In other words, we had to come up with different methods to support or falsify our