Mystery Box

What a fun activity this was! We pretended to be detectives and solve the mystery of what was in the boxes. Our professor passed around four black closed boxes to each group and asked us to find out what was going on in the box. Each box was sealed close so we couldn’t peak inside. Each box was the same shape and same color. I guess my group didn’t pay close enough attention to the directions because we guessed what was in the mystery boxes. We each started with our own closed boxes and tried to guess what was in the inside. The hard part about this activity is that all the boxes seemed to have the same item inside. If we would have listened a little more carefully we would have known that each box had the same item. We also discovered that each box had different barriers on the inside. This threw our group off track because we thought that each box had a marble inside of it and indeed each box did, but each box also had different sizes and shapes of cardboard put inside of them causing the marble to move in different directions inside the box. Once we knew about the cardboard pieces inside the boxes we tried this activity again and drew pictures of where we though the cardboard was inside the boxes. We were right about three of them and missed the location of the cardboard on one of them. I really enjoyed this activity because I’m so use to being able to open things and look at them if I want to. This activity made me think outside of my comfort zone and use my listening skills to be able to locate the cardboard inside the boxes. Dr. E also posted a link to a really neat website dealing with the same type of activity! Check it out!