Mystery Containers

Each group was given a black film container with unknown contents. We were asked to come up with as many question as possible about the container and it's contents. After making a list of questions we were given an empty film container with a box of items that may possibly be in our containers. We were also able to weigh our containers.
We asked around eighty question about what could be in the container. For example, what was it's purpose? Is it made out of metal? Is it alive? Is it edible? I found an infinite amount of question that could be asked about this little container and it's contents. We  weighed the container and tried to add many items to the control container to obtain the exact mass. We failed to take in count that the containers were of different masses.
According to the inquiry wheel we learned about in class, science begins with question, as we did at the beginning of the activity. The inquiry continues with observing, asking more questions, carrying out experiments and eventually lead to results. The results may be unexpected; for example, we were one paperclip away from guessing the contents of the container because we didn't think of the mass of the container.
Overall I learned that doing science can be practiced with the inquiry wheel rather than linear fashion. The results won't always be the expected and may require you to start over by asking different questions.